With the Washington Commanders, 2025. Photo: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive line, Alabama, 2015–⁠17

Da’Ron Payne

Number: No. 94
Height: 6′2″
Weight: 308 lb
Hometown: Birmingham, AL
Born: May 27, 1997, in Birmingham, Alabama

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Da’Ron Payne played defensive line at Alabama (2015–⁠17). The Washington Redskins took Payne in the first round, No. 13 overall in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Best season: 53; Tackles, 2017 (Alabama, 13–⁠1)
Drafted: No. 13; Overall, 2018 NFL Draft (Washington Redskins)

Honors

2017First-team All-SEC

Team titles: National champions, 2015 and 2017; SEC champions, 2015 and 2016

Defense

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

14–⁠1AP 213–⁠1★ AP 1

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2016	Alabama	36	12	3.5	1.5	0	1	3
2017	Alabama	53	21	1	1	1	3	8
Career		89	33	4.5	2.5	1	4	11

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	Ht	Wt
2015	Alabama	94	DL
2016	Alabama	94	DL
2017	Alabama	94	DL	6′2″	308

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

2017 Alabama 14 games, 53 tackles, 1 sack, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 2	vs.Florida State	W 24–⁠7	5	2	0	0	0	0
Sep 9	vs.Fresno State	W 41–⁠10	4	3	0	0	0	0
Sep 16	vs.Colorado State	W 41–⁠23	6	4	0	0	0	1
Sep 23	atVanderbilt	W 59–⁠0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Sep 30	vs.Ole Miss	W 66–⁠3	7	1	0.5	0.5	0	0
Oct 7	atTexas A&M	W 27–⁠19	6	2	0	0	0	0
Oct 14	vs.Arkansas	W 41–⁠9	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oct 21	vs.Tennessee	W 45–⁠7	1	1	0	0	0	1
Nov 4	vs.LSU	W 24–⁠10	4	0	0.5	0.5	0	0
Nov 11	atMississippi State	W 31–⁠24	6	1	0	0	0	0
Nov 18	vs.Mercer	W 56–⁠0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Nov 25	atAuburn	L 14–⁠26	3	1	0	0	0	0
Jan 1 ✦	vs.Clemson	W 24–⁠6	2	2	0	0	1	1
Jan 8 ✦	vs.Georgia	W 26–⁠23	6	3	0	0	0	0

2016 Alabama 13 games, 36 tackles, 1.5 sacks

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Sep 10	vs.Western Kentucky	W 38–⁠10	3	1	0	0	0
Sep 17	atOle Miss	W 48–⁠43	4	1	0	0	0
Sep 24	vs.Kent State	W 48–⁠0	2	2	0	0	0
Oct 1	vs.Kentucky	W 34–⁠6	1	0	0	0	0
Oct 8	atArkansas	W 49–⁠30	3	1	1	1	0
Oct 15	atTennessee	W 49–⁠10	2	1	1.5	0	0
Oct 22	vs.Texas A&M	W 33–⁠14	2	1	0	0	1
Nov 5	atLSU	W 10–⁠0	1	1	0	0	0
Nov 12	vs.Mississippi State	W 51–⁠3	5	1	0	0	0
Nov 19	vs.Chattanooga	W 31–⁠3	2	0	0.5	0	0
Nov 26	vs.Auburn	W 30–⁠12	2	0	0	0	0
Dec 31 ✦	vs.Washington	W 24–⁠7	4	0	0	0	0
Jan 9 ✦	vs.Clemson	L 31–⁠35	5	3	0.5	0.5	0

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2018
Height	6′2½″
Weight	311 lb
Arm length	33″
Hand size	9⅜″
Wingspan	78⅜″^W
40-yard dash	4.95 s
10-yard split	1.67 s^W
Vertical jump	28½″
Broad jump	8′11″
Bench press	27 reps
3-cone drill	7.58 s
20-yard shuttle	4.71 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

9 seasons, 132 games with a stat; latest team: Washington Commanders.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2018	Washington Redskins	16	47	5	0
2019	Washington Redskins	15	54	2	0
2020	Washington Football Team	16	52	3	1
2021	Washington Football Team	17	54	4.5	0
2022	Washington Commanders	17	59	11.5	0
2023	Washington Commanders	17	46	4	0
2024	Washington Commanders	15	41	4	0
2025	Washington Commanders	14	45	3	0
2026 (so far)	Washington Commanders	5	11	1	0
NFL career		132	409	38	1

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

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