Linebacker, UCLA, 2010–14
Eric Kendricks
- Number
- No. 6
- Height
- 6′0″
- Hometown
- Fresno, CA
- Born
- Feb 29, 1992
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Eric Kendricks played linebacker at UCLA (2010–14). He won the 2014 Butkus Award. The Minnesota Vikings took Kendricks in round 2, No. 45 overall in the 2015 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
All-America: Sporting News 2014; Scout.com 2014; Sports Illustrated 2014; USA Today 2014; College Football News second team 2012
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Season by season, from Wikipedia
| Season | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | GS | Tot | Solo | Ast | Sacks | TFL | PD | Int | Yds | TD | FF | FR | |
| 2011 | 14 | 3 | 77 | 52 | 25 | 2 | 4.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 14 | 14 | 149 | 91 | 58 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 11 | 11 | 105 | 64 | 41 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 13 | 13 | 145 | 101 | 44 | 4 | 11.5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Career | 52 | 41 | 476 | 308 | 168 | 10 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 30 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
From the college statistics table in Kendricks’s Wikipedia article (Eric Kendricks, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011N | 14 | 52 | 25 | 77 | 4.5 | 2 | – | 3 | – |
| 2012 | 14 | 95 | 56 | 151 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013N | 12 | 64 | 41 | 105 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| On file | 211 | 122 | 333 | 14.5 | 6 | – | 9 | – | |
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
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
2014 UCLA 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
2013 UCLA 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3 | at Utah | W 34–27 | 1 |
2012 UCLA 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17 | vs. USC | W 38–28 | 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 2015 | Combine or pro day 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 6′0¼″ | |
| Weight | 232 lb | |
| Arm length | 31″ | |
| Hand size | 9⅝″ | |
| Wingspan | 76″W | |
| 40-yard dash | 4.61 s | |
| 10-yard split | 1.57 s | |
| Vertical jump | 38″ | |
| Broad jump | 10′4″ | |
| Bench press | 19 reps | |
| 3-cone drill | 7.14 s | |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.14 s |
Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the NFL
11 seasons, 149 games with a stat; latest team: San Francisco 49ers.
Pro Bowl: 2019 · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2019
All-Pro teams: AP first team 2019.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Minnesota Vikings | 14 | 83 | 4 | 0 |
| 2016 | Minnesota Vikings | 15 | 109 | 2.5 | 1 |
| 2017 | Minnesota Vikings | 16 | 112 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | Minnesota Vikings | 14 | 103 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | Minnesota Vikings | 15 | 104 | 0.5 | 0 |
| 2020 | Minnesota Vikings | 11 | 97 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | Minnesota Vikings | 15 | 125 | 5 | 2 |
| 2022 | Minnesota Vikings | 17 | 124 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | Los Angeles Chargers | 15 | 105 | 3.5 | 0 |
| 2024 | Dallas Cowboys | 15 | 128 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | San Francisco 49ers | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 149 | 1,096 | 21.5 | 11 | |
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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