Defensive tackle, Oklahoma, 2006–09
Gerald McCoy
- Number
- No. 93
- Height
- 6′4″
- Weight
- 297 lb
- Hometown
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Born
- Feb 25, 1988, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Gerald McCoy played defensive tackle at Oklahoma (2006–09). He was a consensus All‑American in 2009. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took McCoy in the first round, No. 3 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.
At a glance
- Best season
- 2009
- Consensus All-American and First-team All-Big 12
Honors
Team titles: Big 12 champions, 2008
All-America: consensus 2009; Sporting News 2008; AP second team 2008; College Football News 2008; Pro Football Weekly 2008; Rivals.com 2008; Sports Illustrated 2008
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 | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tot | Solo | Ast | Sacks | Int | Yds | TD | PD | FF | FR | |
| 2007 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 6.5 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 34 | 25 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Career | 83 | 51 | 32 | 14.5 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
From the college statistics table in McCoy’s Wikipedia article (Gerald McCoy, 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 | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 30 | 11 | 6.5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
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 | Oklahoma | 93 | DT | 6′4″ | 297 |
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 Oklahoma 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8 ✦ | vs. Florida | L 14–24 | 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 | 6′4⅛″ |
| Weight | 295 lb |
| Arm length | 33¾″ |
| Hand size | 10¼″ |
| 40-yard dash | 5.04 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.68 sW |
| Vertical jump | 30½″ |
| Broad jump | 9′6″ |
| Bench press | 23 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 7.32 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.48 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
10 seasons, 131 games with a stat; latest team: Oakland Raiders.
Pro Bowls: 6 (2012–17) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2013 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2 (2014, 2016)
All-Pro teams: AP first team 2013; AP second team 2014, 2016; Pro Football Writers first team 2013; Sporting News first team 2013–14.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 12 | 20 | 3 | 0 |
| 2011 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 15 | 28 | 5 | 0 |
| 2013 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 15 | 46 | 9.5 | 0 |
| 2014 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 13 | 31 | 8.5 | 0 |
| 2015 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 15 | 27 | 8.5 | 0 |
| 2016 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 14 | 28 | 7 | 0 |
| 2017 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 14 | 40 | 6 | 0 |
| 2018 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 14 | 26 | 6 | 0 |
| 2019 | Carolina Panthers | 15 | 37 | 5 | 0 |
| NFL career | 131 | 291 | 59.5 | 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. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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