Devon Wylie in the NFL
In the NFL. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Receiver, Fresno State, 2007–⁠11

Devon Wylie

Number
No. 7
Height
5′9″
Hometown
Roseville, CA
Born
Sep 2, 1988, in Roseville, California
Died
Nov 13, 2023

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Devon Wylie played receiver at Fresno State (2007–⁠11). The Kansas City Chiefs took Wylie in round 4, No. 107 overall in the 2012 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
716
Receiving yards, 2011 (Fresno State, 4–⁠9)
Drafted
No. 107
Round 4, 2012 NFL Draft (Kansas City Chiefs)

Career highs

13catches, career highvs. Louisiana Tech, 2011149receiving yards, career highvs. Louisiana Tech, 2011

Receiving

Receiving yards, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamRecYdsAvgTDLong
2007*Fresno State14444.0044
2008*Fresno State2226912.2247
2009Fresno State1725915.2470
2010Fresno State23919.5128
2011Fresno State5671612.8171
Career981,32713.5871

Returns

SeasonTeamPRYdsTD
2009Fresno State131070
2010Fresno State100
2011Fresno State404462
Career545532

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

SeasonGSoloAstTklFF
200795271
200893140
200983250
On file115161

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

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2007Fresno State7WR
2008Fresno State7WR
2009Fresno State7WR
2010Fresno State7WR
2011Fresno State7WR5′9″

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

2011 Fresno State 13 games, 56 catches, 716 yards, 1 TD
DateOpponentResultRecRec ydsRec TDPR
Sep 3atCaliforniaL 21–⁠3657503
Sep 10atNebraskaL 29–⁠4245005
Sep 17vs.North DakotaW 27–⁠22–––5
Sep 24atIdahoW 48–⁠2433006
Oct 1vs.Ole MissL 28–⁠3845904
Oct 7vs.Boise StateL 7–⁠5721204
Oct 15vs.Utah StateW 31–⁠211−403
Oct 22atNevadaL 38–⁠45510802
Nov 5vs.Louisiana TechL 21–⁠411314912
Nov 12atNew Mexico StateL 45–⁠4833101
Nov 19atHawai’iW 24–⁠2155903
Nov 26vs.San José StateL 24–⁠274500–
Dec 3atSan Diego StateL 28–⁠3579702
2010 Fresno State 1 game, 2 catches, 39 yards, 1 TD
DateOpponentResultRecRec ydsRec TDPR
Sep 4vs.CincinnatiW 28–⁠1423911
2009 Fresno State 8 games, 17 catches, 259 yards, 4 TD
DateOpponentResultRecRec ydsRec TDPR
Sep 5vs.UC DavisW 51–⁠012403
Sep 12atWisconsinL 31–⁠34511414
Sep 18vs.Boise StateL 34–⁠514371–
Sep 26atCincinnatiL 20–⁠2811302
Oct 10atHawai’iW 42–⁠173271–
Oct 17vs.San José StateW 41–⁠2112711
Dec 5atIllinoisW 53–⁠52–––3
Dec 19 ✦vs.WyomingL 28–⁠352170–
2008 Fresno State 8 games, 22 catches, 269 yards, 2 TD
DateOpponentResultRecRec ydsRec TDPR
Sep 1atRutgersW 24–⁠71310–
Sep 13vs.WisconsinL 10–⁠132621–
Oct 25atUtah StateW 30–⁠286541–
Nov 1atLouisiana TechL 35–⁠384430–
Nov 7vs.NevadaL 28–⁠413270–
Nov 15vs.New Mexico StateW 24–⁠174300–
Nov 21atSan José StateW 24–⁠101240–
Dec 20 ✦vs.Colorado StateL 35–⁠401−20–
2007 Fresno State 3 games, 1 catch, 44 yards
DateOpponentResultRecRec ydsRec TDPR
Sep 1vs.Sacramento StateW 24–⁠3––––
Sep 8atTexas A&ML 45–⁠471440–
Sep 29vs.Louisiana TechW 17–⁠6––––

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

Before the draft

Played in the 2012 East–West Shrine Game (West team, won 24–⁠17).

DrillCombine 2012Combine or pro day 2012
Height5′9¼″
Weight187 lb
Arm length30¼″
Hand size9½″
40-yard dash4.39 s
10-yard split1.52 s
Vertical jump39″
Broad jump10′3″
Bench press17 reps
3-cone drill6.82 s
20-yard shuttle4.16 s

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

In the NFL

2 seasons, 7 games with a stat; latest team: Atlanta Falcons.

SeasonTeamGRecYdsTD
2012Kansas City Chiefs56530
2013Tennessee Titans2000
NFL career76530

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.

Other pro football

YearsLeagueTeam
2016–⁠17CFLToronto Argonauts

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams.

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