With the Kansas City Chiefs, 2014. Photo: au_tiger01, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive end, Auburn, 2009–⁠13

Dee Ford

Number: No. 30
Height: 6′2″
Hometown: Odenville, AL
Born: Mar 19, 1991, in Odenville, Alabama

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Dee Ford played defensive end at Auburn (2009–⁠13). The Kansas City Chiefs took Ford in the first round, No. 23 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2013; First-team All-SEC
Drafted: No. 23; Overall, 2014 NFL Draft (Kansas City Chiefs)

Honors

2013First-team All-SEC

Team titles: National champions, 2010; SEC champions, 2010 and 2013

Season by season, from Wikipedia

Season	Games		Tackles
Season	G	GS	TFL	Sacks
2009	13	0	2.5	1
2010	13	1	2	2
2011	3	0	2	1
2012		7	6.5	6
2013	13	11	14.5	10.5
Career	42	19	27.5	20.5

From the college statistics table in Ford’s Wikipedia article (Dee Ford, 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
2009	6	6	6	12	2.5	1	1	0	0	7
2010	6	7	4	11	2	2	0	0	0	4
2011	3	6	1	7	2	1	0	0	0	4
2012	10	23	11	34	6.5	6	0	1	1	8
2013^N	12	18	11	29	14.5	10.5	0	1	2	–
On file		60	33	93	27.5	20.5	1	2	3	–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2009	Auburn	30	DE
2010	Auburn	30	DE
2011	Auburn	30	DE
2012	Auburn	30	DE
2013	Auburn	30	DE	6′2″

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

2009 Auburn 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Nov 7	vs.Furman	W 63–⁠31	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

MVP of the 2014 Senior Bowl.

Drill	Combine 2014	Pro day 2014
Height	6′2⅛″	6′2⅛″^W
Weight	252 lb	252 lb^W
Arm length	32⅞″	32⅞″^W
Hand size	10¼″	10¼″^W
40-yard dash		4.59 s^W
10-yard split		1.67 s^W
Vertical jump		35½″^W
Broad jump		10′4″^W
Bench press		29 reps^W
3-cone drill		7.07 s^W
20-yard shuttle		4.73 s^W

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

8 seasons, 63 games with a stat; latest team: San Francisco 49ers.

Pro Bowl: 2018

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks
2014	Kansas City Chiefs	5	8	1.5
2015	Kansas City Chiefs	11	21	4
2016	Kansas City Chiefs	13	38	10
2017	Kansas City Chiefs	6	11	2
2018	Kansas City Chiefs	16	49	13
2019	San Francisco 49ers	8	13	6.5
2020	San Francisco 49ers	1	3	0
2021	San Francisco 49ers	3	5	3
NFL career		63	148	40

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. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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