Defensive end, SMU, 2013–⁠17

Justin Lawler

Number: No. 99
Height: 6′4″
Weight: 265 lb
Hometown: Pottsboro, TX
Born: Dec 23, 1994

Justin Lawler played defensive end at SMU (2013–⁠17). The Los Angeles Rams took Lawler in round 7, No. 244 overall in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Best season: 74; Tackles, 2017 (SMU, 7–⁠6)
Best game: 8 tackles; At North Texas, week 1, 2016: No. 2 defensive game in FBS that week
Drafted: No. 244; Round 7, 2018 NFL Draft (Los Angeles Rams)

10tackles, career highat Navy, 2017 4sacks, career highvs. UConn, 2017

Defense

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

5–⁠77–⁠6

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD	Hur
2016	SMU	65	45	13.5	6	0	7
2017	SMU	74	42	15.5	9.5	2	10
Career		139	87	29	15.5	2	17

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl
2014	8 of 12	9	8	17
2015	8 of 12	30	14	44

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht	Wt
2013	SMU	99	DE
2014	SMU	99	DE
2015	SMU	99	DE
2016	SMU	99	DE
2017	SMU	99	DE	6′4″	265

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 SMU 12 games, 74 tackles, 9.5 sacks

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Sep 2	vs.Stephen F. Austin	W 58–⁠14	4	3	0	0	0
Sep 9	vs.North Texas	W 54–⁠32	7	5	3	2	0
Sep 16	atTCU	L 36–⁠56	9	3	1	0	0
Sep 23	vs.Arkansas State	W 44–⁠21	3	0	0	0	1
Sep 30	vs.UConn	W 49–⁠28	7	5	4	4	0
Oct 7	atHouston	L 22–⁠35	7	3	0	0	1
Oct 21	atCincinnati	W 31–⁠28	6	2	0.5	0.5	0
Oct 27	vs.Tulsa	W 38–⁠34	8	8	3	1	0
Nov 4	vs.UCF	L 24–⁠31	4	3	1.5	0	0
Nov 11	atNavy	L 40–⁠43	10	3	0	0	0
Nov 18	atMemphis	L 45–⁠66	4	4	1	1	0
Nov 25	vs.Tulane	W 41–⁠38	5	3	1.5	1	0

2016 SMU 12 games, 65 tackles, 6 sacks

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks
Sep 3	atNorth Texas	W 34–⁠21	8	3	4	3.5
Sep 10	atBaylor	L 13–⁠40	2	2	0	0
Sep 17	vs.Liberty	W 29–⁠14	8	5	0	1
Sep 23	vs.TCU	L 3–⁠33	4	2	0	0
Oct 1	atTemple	L 20–⁠45	5	2	0	0
Oct 7	atTulsa	L 40–⁠43	9	8	1	0
Oct 22	vs.Houston	W 38–⁠16	3	2	1.5	1.5
Oct 29	atTulane	W 35–⁠31	6	4	0	0
Nov 5	vs.Memphis	L 7–⁠51	9	9	4	0
Nov 12	atEast Carolina	W 55–⁠31	4	2	0	0
Nov 19	vs.South Florida	L 27–⁠35	5	4	1	0
Nov 26	vs.Navy	L 31–⁠75	2	2	2	0

2014 SMU 1 game, 1 catch, 3 yards, 1 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Nov 15	vs.South Florida	L 13–⁠14	–	–	–	–	–

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

Before the draft

Drill	Pro day 2018
Height	6′4⅛″
Weight	263 lb
Arm length	32½″
Hand size	9¼″
40-yard dash	5.03 s
10-yard split	1.78 s^W
Vertical jump	30½″
Broad jump	8′10″
Bench press	22 reps
3-cone drill	7.44 s
20-yard shuttle	4.46 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

2 seasons, 7 games with a stat; latest team: Los Angeles Rams.

Season	Team	G	Tkl
2018	Los Angeles Rams	6	5
2021	Los Angeles Rams	1	1
NFL career		7	6

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.

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At a glance

Career highs