Defensive end, Virginia, 2004–07
Chris Long
- Born
- Mar 28, 1985, in Santa Monica, California
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Chris Long played defensive end at Virginia (2004–07). He won the 2007 Ted Hendricks Award. He finished 10th in the 2007 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 2007. The St. Louis Rams took Long in the first round, No. 2 overall in the 2008 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
- 2006Second-team All-ACC
- 2007Ted Hendricks Award
- 2007Consensus All‑American
- 2007ACC Defensive Player of the Year
- 2007First-team All-ACC
- 200710th in the Heisman vote
Regional honors: Dudley Award 2007
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Season by season, from Wikipedia
| Season | Games | Tackles | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | GS | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sacks | |
| 2004 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2005 | 12 | 12 | 46 | 19 | 27 | 10 | 2 |
| 2006 | 12 | 12 | 57 | 32 | 25 | 12 | 5 |
| 2007 | 13 | 13 | 69 | 36 | 33 | 19 | 14 |
| Career | 43 | 37 | 177 | 90 | 87 | 43 | 22 |
From the college statistics table in Long’s Wikipedia article (Chris Long, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Sacks | Int | PBU | FF | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | 36 | 43 | 79 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.
Game by game
2007 Virginia 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15 | at North Carolina | W 22–20 | 1 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2008 |
|---|---|
| Height | 6′3″ |
| Weight | 272 lb |
| Arm length | 32⅝″ |
| Hand size | 10″ |
| 40-yard dash | 4.75 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.53 sW |
| Vertical jump | 34″ |
| Broad jump | 10′4″ |
| 3-cone drill | 7.02 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.21 s |
Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the NFL
11 seasons, 152 games with a stat; latest team: Philadelphia Eagles.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | St. Louis Rams | 15 | 36 | 4 | 0 |
| 2009 | St. Louis Rams | 15 | 42 | 5 | 0 |
| 2010 | St. Louis Rams | 16 | 26 | 8.5 | 0 |
| 2011 | St. Louis Rams | 16 | 33 | 13 | 0 |
| 2012 | St. Louis Rams | 15 | 32 | 11.5 | 0 |
| 2013 | St. Louis Rams | 16 | 40 | 8.5 | 0 |
| 2014 | St. Louis Rams | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | St. Louis Rams | 9 | 18 | 3 | 0 |
| 2016 | New England Patriots | 16 | 34 | 4 | 0 |
| 2017 | Philadelphia Eagles | 16 | 28 | 5 | 0 |
| 2018 | Philadelphia Eagles | 13 | 22 | 6.5 | 0 |
| NFL career | 152 | 316 | 70 | 0 | |
Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.
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