Defensive back, Mississippi State, 2014–⁠17

J.T. Gray

Number: No. 12
Height: 6′0″
Weight: 202 lb
Hometown: Clarksdale, MS

J.T. Gray played defensive back at Mississippi State (2014–⁠17).

8tackles, career highseven times; last vs. BYU, 2017

Defense

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

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2016	Mississippi State	71	36	8	1	0	0	2
2017	Mississippi State	64	21	3	1.5	1	8	2
Career		135	57	11	2.5	1	8	4

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.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht	Wt
2014	Mississippi State	12	DB
2015	Mississippi State	12	DB
2016	Mississippi State	12	DB
2017	Mississippi State	12	DB	6′0″	202

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 Mississippi State 13 games, 64 tackles, 1.5 sacks, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 2	vs.Charleston Southern	W 49–⁠0	5	2	0	0	0	0
Sep 9	atLouisiana Tech	W 57–⁠21	3	1	0	0	0	1
Sep 16	vs.LSU	W 37–⁠7	6	1	1	0	0	1
Sep 23	atGeorgia	L 3–⁠31	6	1	0	0	0	0
Sep 30	atAuburn	L 10–⁠49	8	2	0.5	0	0	0
Oct 14	vs.BYU	W 35–⁠10	8	2	0	0	0	1
Oct 21	vs.Kentucky	W 45–⁠7	7	2	0	0	0	0
Oct 28	atTexas A&M	W 35–⁠14	3	1	0	0	0	2
Nov 4	vs.Massachusetts	W 34–⁠23	5	1	0	0	1	1
Nov 11	vs.Alabama	L 24–⁠31	4	3	1	1	0	0
Nov 18	atArkansas	W 28–⁠21	1	0	0	0	0	1
Nov 23	vs.Ole Miss	L 28–⁠31	4	2	0	0	0	1
Dec 30 ✦	vs.Louisville	W 31–⁠27	4	3	0.5	0.5	0	0

2016 Mississippi State 13 games, 71 tackles, 1 sack

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks
Sep 3	vs.South Alabama	L 20–⁠21	8	5	1	1
Sep 10	vs.South Carolina	W 27–⁠14	8	3	0	0
Sep 17	atLSU	L 20–⁠23	8	3	1.5	0
Sep 24	atMassachusetts	W 47–⁠35	1	1	0	0
Oct 8	vs.Auburn	L 14–⁠38	8	1	0	0
Oct 14	atBYU	L 21–⁠28	5	3	1	0
Oct 22	atKentucky	L 38–⁠40	6	3	1	0
Oct 29	vs.Samford	W 56–⁠41	7	3	0	0
Nov 5	vs.Texas A&M	W 35–⁠28	2	0	0	0
Nov 12	atAlabama	L 3–⁠51	4	2	1	0
Nov 19	vs.Arkansas	L 42–⁠58	5	4	2	0
Nov 26	atOle Miss	W 55–⁠20	8	7	0.5	0
Dec 26 ✦	vs.Miami (OH)	W 17–⁠16	1	1	0	0

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

Before the draft

Drill	Pro day 2018
Height	5′11¼″
Weight	195 lb
Arm length	32½″
Hand size	8¾″
Wingspan	74⅞″^W
40-yard dash	4.50 s
10-yard split	1.59 s^W
Vertical jump	33½″
Broad jump	10′3″
Bench press	19 reps
3-cone drill	7.03 s
20-yard shuttle	4.19 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

Pro Bowl: 2021 · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2021 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2 (2019, 2024)

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2021; AP second team 2019, 2024; Pro Football Writers first team 2021.

Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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