Defensive end, South Carolina, 2011–13
Jadeveon Clowney
- Number
- No. 7
- Height
- 6′6″
- Weight
- 274 lb
- Hometown
- Rock Hill, SC
- Born
- Feb 14, 1993, in Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Jadeveon Clowney played defensive end at South Carolina (2011–13). He won the 2012 Ted Hendricks Award. He finished sixth in the 2012 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 2012. The Houston Texans took Clowney first overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
- 2011SEC Freshman of the Year
- 2011Second-team All-SEC
- 2012Ted Hendricks Award
- 2012AT&T ESPN All-America Player of the Year
- 2012Consensus All‑American
- 2012SEC Defensive Player of the Year
- 2012, 2013First-team All-SEC
- 2012Sixth in the Heisman vote
All-America: consensus 2012; AFCA 2013
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tot | TFL | Sacks | |
| 2011 | 36 | 12 | 8 |
| 2012 | 54 | 23.5 | 13 |
| 2013 | 39 | 11.5 | 3 |
| Career | 129 | 47 | 24 |
From the college statistics table in Clowney’s Wikipedia article (Jadeveon Clowney, 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).
The teams
No defensive lines in our box scores: before 2016 they record only interceptions for defenders. His defense from other sources is below.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Sacks | PBU | FF | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 36 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2012 | 12 | 40 | 14 | 54 | 23.5 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013N | 11 | 28 | 12 | 40 | 11.5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – |
| On file | 85 | 45 | 130 | 47 | 24 | 7 | 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
| Season | Team | No. | Pos | Ht | Wt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | South Carolina | 7 | DE | ||
| 2012 | South Carolina | 7 | DE | ||
| 2013 | South Carolina | 7 | DE | 6′6″ | 274 |
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.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2014 |
|---|---|
| Height | 6′5¼″ |
| Weight | 266 lb |
| Arm length | 34½″ |
| Hand size | 10″ |
| Wingspan | 83″W |
| 40-yard dash | 4.53 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.59 sW |
| Vertical jump | 37½″ |
| Broad jump | 10′4″ |
| Bench press | 21 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 7.27 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.43 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
13 seasons, 154 games with a stat; latest team: Houston Texans.
Pro Bowls: 3 (2016–18) · First-team All-Pro: 2016 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2016
All-Pro teams: AP second team 2016; Pro Football Writers first team 2016; Sporting News first team 2016.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Houston Texans | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | Houston Texans | 13 | 38 | 4.5 | 0 |
| 2016 | Houston Texans | 14 | 52 | 6 | 0 |
| 2017 | Houston Texans | 16 | 52 | 9.5 | 0 |
| 2018 | Houston Texans | 15 | 44 | 9 | 0 |
| 2019 | Seattle Seahawks | 13 | 27 | 3 | 1 |
| 2020 | Tennessee Titans | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Cleveland Browns | 14 | 33 | 9 | 0 |
| 2022 | Cleveland Browns | 12 | 25 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | Baltimore Ravens | 17 | 40 | 9.5 | 0 |
| 2024 | Carolina Panthers | 13 | 42 | 5.5 | 0 |
| 2025 | Dallas Cowboys | 12 | 38 | 8.5 | 0 |
| 2026 (so far) | Houston Texans | 3 | 7 | 1.5 | 0 |
| NFL career | 154 | 421 | 68 | 1 | |
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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