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Cornerback, Cincinnati, 2017–⁠21

Coby Bryant

Number: No. 7
Height: 6′1″
Weight: 198 lb
Class (2021): Senior
Hometown: Akron, OH
Born: Mar 29, 1999

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Coby Bryant played cornerback at Cincinnati (2017–⁠21). He won the 2021 Jim Thorpe Award. The Seattle Seahawks took Bryant in round 4, No. 109 overall in the 2022 NFL Draft.

Best season: 54; Tackles, 2019 (Cincinnati, 11–⁠3)
Drafted: No. 109; Round 4, 2022 NFL Draft (Seattle Seahawks)

8tackles, career hightwice; last at East Carolina, 2019 2interceptions, career hightwice; last vs. South Florida, 2020

Honors

2021Jim Thorpe Award

Team titles: American champions, 2020 and 2021

All-America: AFCA 2021; Walter Camp 2021

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record

4–⁠811–⁠2AP 2411–⁠3AP 219–⁠1AP 813–⁠1AP 4

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD	Hur
2017	Cincinnati	4	2	0	0	0	0
2018	Cincinnati	30	28	0	2	9	0
2019	Cincinnati	54	37	2.5	1	8	2
2020	Cincinnati	35	31	1	4	7	0
2021	Cincinnati	44	34	1.5	3	11	0
Career		167	132	5	10	35	2

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2017	Cincinnati	7	CB	Yr 1
2018	Cincinnati	7	CB	Yr 2
2019	Cincinnati	7	CB	Yr 3
2020	Cincinnati	7	CB	Yr 4
2021	Cincinnati	7	CB	Sr. (Yr 5)	6′1″	198

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2021 Cincinnati 14 games, 44 tackles, 3 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
Sep 4	vs.Miami (OH)	W 49–⁠14	4	4	0	0	1
Sep 11	vs.Murray State	W 42–⁠7	3	2	0	0	1
Sep 18	atIndiana	W 38–⁠24	0	0	0	0	1
Oct 2	atNotre Dame	W 24–⁠13	7	6	0	0	3
Oct 8	vs.Temple	W 52–⁠3	6	3	0.5	1	0
Oct 16	vs.UCF	W 56–⁠21	1	1	0	1	1
Oct 23	atNavy	W 27–⁠20	1	0	0	0	2
Oct 30	atTulane	W 31–⁠12	2	2	0	1	0
Nov 6	vs.Tulsa	W 28–⁠20	2	1	0	0	0
Nov 12	atSouth Florida	W 45–⁠28	6	6	0	0	2
Nov 20	vs.SMU	W 48–⁠14	2	2	1	0	0
Nov 26	atEast Carolina	W 35–⁠13	3	3	0	0	0
Dec 4	vs.Houston	W 35–⁠20	3	2	0	0	0
Dec 31 ✦	vs.Alabama	L 6–⁠27	4	2	0	0	0

2020 Cincinnati 10 games, 35 tackles, 4 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
Sep 19	vs.Austin Peay	W 55–⁠20	2	2	0	0	1
Sep 26	vs.Army	W 24–⁠10	3	2	0	0	0
Oct 3	vs.South Florida	W 28–⁠7	4	3	1	2	1
Oct 24	atSMU	W 42–⁠13	6	6	0	0	1
Oct 31	vs.Memphis	W 49–⁠10	4	4	0	0	0
Nov 7	vs.Houston	W 38–⁠10	2	2	0	0	1
Nov 13	vs.East Carolina	W 55–⁠17	3	2	0	1	1
Nov 21	atUCF	W 36–⁠33	4	3	0	0	1
Dec 19	vs.Tulsa	W 27–⁠24	4	4	0	0	1
Jan 1 ✦	vs.Georgia	L 21–⁠24	3	3	0	1	0

2019 Cincinnati 14 games, 54 tackles, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
Aug 29	vs.UCLA	W 24–⁠14	6	3	0.5	0	1
Sep 7	atOhio State	L 0–⁠42	4	3	0	0	0
Sep 14	vs.Miami (OH)	W 35–⁠13	2	2	0	0	0
Sep 28	atMarshall	W 52–⁠14	4	3	0	0	1
Oct 4	vs.UCF	W 27–⁠24	6	5	0	0	2
Oct 12	atHouston	W 38–⁠23	5	1	0	1	0
Oct 19	vs.Tulsa	W 24–⁠13	2	1	0	0	0
Nov 2	atEast Carolina	W 46–⁠43	8	7	0	0	3
Nov 9	vs.UConn	W 48–⁠3	4	2	0	0	0
Nov 16	atSouth Florida	W 20–⁠17	3	3	1	0	0
Nov 23	vs.Temple	W 15–⁠13	3	0	0	0	1
Nov 29	atMemphis	L 24–⁠34	3	3	0	0	0
Dec 7	atMemphis	L 24–⁠29	3	3	1	0	0
Jan 2 ✦	vs.Boston College	W 38–⁠6	1	1	0	0	0

2018 Cincinnati 10 games, 30 tackles, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	Int	PD
Sep 1	atUCLA	W 26–⁠17	5	5	0	1
Sep 8	atMiami (OH)	W 21–⁠0	3	3	0	1
Sep 22	vs.Ohio	W 34–⁠30	2	2	0	2
Oct 6	vs.Tulane	W 37–⁠21	2	1	0	1
Oct 20	atTemple	L 17–⁠24	4	4	2	3
Oct 27	atSMU	W 26–⁠20	3	3	0	0
Nov 10	vs.South Florida	W 35–⁠23	1	1	0	0
Nov 17	atUCF	L 13–⁠38	2	2	0	0
Nov 23	vs.East Carolina	W 56–⁠6	0	0	0	1
Dec 31 ✦	vs.Virginia Tech	W 35–⁠31	8	7	0	0

2017 Cincinnati 3 games, 4 tackles

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo
Sep 16	atMiami (OH)	W 21–⁠17	2	1
Sep 23	atNavy	L 32–⁠42	1	0
Nov 25	vs.UConn	W 22–⁠21	1	1

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2022 Senior Bowl (National team, won 20–⁠10).

Drill	Combine 2022	Combine or pro day 2022
Height	6′1⅜″
Weight	193 lb
Arm length	30⅝″
Hand size	9⅜″
Wingspan		73⅝″^W
40-yard dash	4.54 s
10-yard split		1.54 s
Vertical jump		33″^W
Broad jump		10′2″^W
Bench press	17 reps
3-cone drill		7.31 s^W
20-yard shuttle		4.33 s^W

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

4 seasons, 53 games with a stat; latest team: Chicago Bears.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2022	Seattle Seahawks	16	63	2	0
2023	Seattle Seahawks	6	16	0	0
2024	Seattle Seahawks	16	69	0	3
2025	Seattle Seahawks	15	64	0	4
NFL career		53	212	2	7

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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