Defensive end, Georgia Tech, 2007–09
Derrick Morgan
- Number
- No. 91
- Height
- 6′4″
- Weight
- 272 lb
- Hometown
- Coatesville, PA
- Born
- Jan 6, 1989
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Derrick Morgan played defensive end at Georgia Tech (2007–09). The Tennessee Titans took Morgan in the first round, No. 16 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.
At a glance
- Best season
- 2009
- ACC Defensive Player of the Year
Honors
All-America: AP first team 2009; AFCA 2009; Sporting News second team 2009; Walter Camp second team 2009; Pro Football Weekly 2009; Scout.com 2009
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Rushing
| Season | Team | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008* | Georgia Tech | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 |
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Sacks | PBU | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 | 31 | 20 | 51 | 9.5 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
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.
On the roster
| Season | Team | No. | Pos | Ht | Wt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Georgia Tech | 91 | DE | 6′4″ | 272 |
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
2008 Georgia Tech 1 game, 2 rushing yards
| Date | Opponent | Result | Car | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31 ✦ | vs. LSU | L 3–38 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2010 | Combine or pro day 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 6′3″ | |
| Weight | 266 lb | |
| Arm length | 34½″ | |
| Hand size | 9¾″ | |
| 40-yard dash | 4.79 s | |
| 10-yard split | 1.64 s | |
| Vertical jump | 34″ | |
| Broad jump | 9′4″ | |
| Bench press | 21 reps | |
| 3-cone drill | 7.12 s | |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.43 s |
Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).
In the NFL
9 seasons, 112 games with a stat; latest team: Tennessee Titans.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Tennessee Titans | 3 | 4 | 1.5 | 0 |
| 2011 | Tennessee Titans | 13 | 30 | 2.5 | 0 |
| 2012 | Tennessee Titans | 16 | 53 | 6.5 | 0 |
| 2013 | Tennessee Titans | 15 | 33 | 6 | 0 |
| 2014 | Tennessee Titans | 15 | 62 | 6.5 | 0 |
| 2015 | Tennessee Titans | 10 | 24 | 4.5 | 0 |
| 2016 | Tennessee Titans | 15 | 33 | 9 | 0 |
| 2017 | Tennessee Titans | 14 | 32 | 7.5 | 0 |
| 2018 | Tennessee Titans | 11 | 20 | 0.5 | 0 |
| NFL career | 112 | 291 | 44.5 | 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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