Defensive back, Tennessee, 2007–09
Eric Berry
- Number
- No. 14
- Height
- 5′11″
- Hometown
- Fairburn, GA
- Born
- Dec 29, 1988, in Fairburn, South Dakota
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Eric Berry played defensive back at Tennessee (2007–09). He won the 2009 Jim Thorpe Award. He was a consensus All‑American in 2008 and 2009. The Kansas City Chiefs took Berry in the first round, No. 5 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2023.
At a glance
Honors
- Inducted 2023College Football Hall of Fame
- 2007Second-team All-SEC
- 2008, 2009Jack Tatum Trophy
- 2008, 2009Consensus All‑American
- 2008SEC Defensive Player of the Year
- 2008, 2009First-team All-SEC
- 2009Jim Thorpe Award
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Defense
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. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Sacks | Int | PBU | FF | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 14 | 57 | 29 | 86 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 12 | 44 | 28 | 72 | 8.5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 13 | 56 | 31 | 87 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 |
| On file | 157 | 88 | 245 | 17.5 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 3 | |
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
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 Tennessee 2 games with an interception on file, 2 INT
2008 Tennessee 7 games with an interception on file, 7 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | at UCLA | L 24–27 | 1 |
| Sep 13 | vs. UAB | W 35–3 | 1 |
| Oct 4 | vs. Northern Illinois | W 13–9 | 1 |
| Oct 11 | at Georgia | L 14–26 | 1 |
| Oct 18 | vs. Mississippi State | W 34–3 | 1 |
| Nov 1 | at South Carolina | L 6–27 | 1 |
| Nov 22 | at Vanderbilt | W 20–10 | 1 |
2007 Tennessee 4 games with an interception on file, 5 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15 | at Florida | L 20–59 | 1 |
| Oct 27 | vs.South Carolina | W 27–24 | 1 |
| Nov 10 | vs. Arkansas | W 34–13 | 2 |
| Dec 1 | vs. LSU | L 14–21 | 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
| Drill | Combine 2010 |
|---|---|
| Height | 5′11⅝″ |
| Weight | 211 lb |
| Arm length | 33¼″ |
| Hand size | 9⅝″ |
| 40-yard dash | 4.47 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.58 sW |
| Vertical jump | 43″ |
| Broad jump | 10′10″ |
| Bench press | 19 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 6.80 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.23 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
8 seasons, 86 games with a stat; latest team: Kansas City Chiefs.
Pro Bowls: 5 (2010, 2012–13, 2015–16) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 3 (2013, 2015–16)
All-Pro teams: AP first team 2013, 2015–16; Pro Football Writers first team 2013, 2015–16; Sporting News first team 2013, 2016.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 74 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 82 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | Kansas City Chiefs | 15 | 70 | 3.5 | 3 |
| 2014 | Kansas City Chiefs | 5 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | Kansas City Chiefs | 15 | 58 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 73 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | Kansas City Chiefs | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | Kansas City Chiefs | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 86 | 407 | 5.5 | 14 | |
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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