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Linebacker, California, 2014–⁠17

Devante Downs

Number: No. 1
Height: 6′3″
Weight: 245 lb
Hometown: Mountlake Terrace, WA
Born: Oct 18, 1995, in Mountlake Terrace, Washington

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Devante Downs played linebacker at California (2014–⁠17). The Minnesota Vikings took Downs in round 7, No. 225 overall in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Best season: 83; Tackles, 2016 (California, 5–⁠7)
Best game: 14 tackles; Vs. Ole Miss, week 3, 2017: No. 2 defensive game in FBS that week
Drafted: No. 225; Round 7, 2018 NFL Draft (Minnesota Vikings)

14tackles, career highthree times; last vs. USC, 2017 2sacks, career highvs. Ole Miss, 2017

Defense

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

5–⁠75–⁠7

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2015	California	–	–	–	–	2	–	–
2016	California	83	42	3.5	2	1	2	1
2017	California	65	36	5.5	3	2	0	4
Career		148	78	9	5	5	2	5

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.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl
2014	6 of 12	9	6	15
2015	7 of 13	5	8	13

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht	Wt
2014	California	1	ILB
2015	California	1	ILB
2016	California	1	ILB
2017	California	1	ILB	6′3″	245

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 California 7 games, 65 tackles, 3 sacks, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int
Sep 2	atNorth Carolina	W 35–⁠30	13	8	0.5	0	1
Sep 9	vs.Weber State	W 33–⁠20	5	4	1	1	0
Sep 16	vs.Ole Miss	W 27–⁠16	14	7	3	2	1
Sep 23	vs.USC	L 20–⁠30	14	8	0.5	0	0
Sep 30	atOregon	L 24–⁠45	8	4	0	0	0
Oct 7	atWashington	L 7–⁠38	6	4	0	0	0
Oct 13	vs.Washington State	W 37–⁠3	5	1	0.5	0	0

2016 California 12 games, 83 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Aug 26	vs.Hawai’i	W 51–⁠31	6	4	0	0	0	0
Sep 10	atSan Diego State	L 40–⁠45	5	3	0.5	0	0	1
Sep 17	vs.Texas	W 50–⁠43	8	2	0	0	0	0
Sep 24	atArizona State	L 41–⁠51	8	8	2	1	0	0
Oct 1	vs.Utah	W 28–⁠23	13	4	0.5	0.5	0	0
Oct 8	atOregon State	L 44–⁠47	6	3	0	0	0	0
Oct 21	vs.Oregon	W 52–⁠49	5	2	0	0	0	0
Oct 27	atUSC	L 24–⁠45	5	4	0	0	0	0
Nov 5	vs.Washington	L 27–⁠66	3	0	0	0	0	0
Nov 12	atWashington State	L 21–⁠56	5	4	0	0	0	0
Nov 19	vs.Stanford	L 31–⁠45	14	5	0	0	0	0
Nov 26	vs.UCLA	W 36–⁠10	5	3	0.5	0.5	1	1

2015 California 2 games, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 5	vs.Grambling	W 73–⁠14	–	–	–	–	1	–
Oct 10	atUtah	L 24–⁠30	–	–	–	–	1	–

2014 California 1 game, 2 returns, 8 yards

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Nov 29	vs.BYU	L 35–⁠42	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Before the draft

Drill	Pro day 2018
Height	6′2⅜″
Weight	252 lb
Arm length	31½″
Hand size	9½″
Bench press	23 reps

Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

In the NFL

3 seasons, 16 games with a stat; latest team: New York Giants.

Season	Team	G	Tkl
2018	Minnesota Vikings	3	3
2019	New York Giants	2	1
2020	New York Giants	11	32
NFL career		16	36

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

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At a glance

Career highs