With the Tennessee Titans, 2025. Photo: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cornerback, Florida, 2019–⁠21

Kaiir Elam

Number: No. 5
Height: 6′2″
Weight: 193 lb
Class (2021): Sophomore
Hometown: Riviera Beach, FL
Born: May 5, 2001

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Kaiir Elam played cornerback at Florida (2019–⁠21). The Buffalo Bills took Elam in the first round, No. 23 overall in the 2022 NFL Draft.

Best season: 39; Tackles, 2020 (Florida, 8–⁠4)
Drafted: No. 23; Overall, 2022 NFL Draft (Buffalo Bills)

8tackles, career highvs. South Carolina, 2020

Honors

2020Second-team All-SEC

Defense

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

11–⁠2AP 68–⁠4AP 136–⁠7

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
2019	Florida	10	8	0	3	4
2020	Florida	39	28	1	2	11
2021	Florida	29	17	1.5	1	5
Career		78	53	2.5	6	20

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2019	Florida	5	CB	Yr 1
2020	Florida	5	CB	Yr 2
2021	Florida	5	CB	So. (Yr 3)	6′2″	193

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

2021 Florida 10 games, 29 tackles, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
Sep 4	vs.Florida Atlantic	W 35–⁠14	3	3	0	0	0
Sep 11	atSouth Florida	W 42–⁠20	3	1	0	1	0
Sep 18	vs.Alabama	L 29–⁠31	2	0	0	0	3
Oct 16	atLSU	L 42–⁠49	4	1	0	0	0
Oct 30	vs.Georgia	L 7–⁠34	2	2	0	0	0
Nov 6	atSouth Carolina	L 17–⁠40	3	2	0	0	0
Nov 13	vs.Samford	W 70–⁠52	4	3	0	0	2
Nov 20	atMissouri	L 23–⁠24	2	2	0	0	0
Nov 27	vs.Florida State	W 24–⁠21	4	1	1.5	0	0
Dec 23 ✦	vs.UCF	L 17–⁠29	2	2	0	0	0

2020 Florida 11 games, 39 tackles, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 26	atOle Miss	W 51–⁠35	7	4	0	0	0	1
Oct 3	vs.South Carolina	W 38–⁠24	8	6	1	0	0	2
Oct 10	atTexas A&M	L 38–⁠41	4	3	0	0	0	3
Oct 31	vs.Missouri	W 41–⁠17	1	0	0	0	0	2
Nov 7	vs.Georgia	W 44–⁠28	–	–	–	–	1	–
Nov 14	vs.Arkansas	W 63–⁠35	1	1	0	0	0	0
Nov 21	atVanderbilt	W 38–⁠17	2	1	0	0	1	1
Nov 28	vs.Kentucky	W 34–⁠10	5	4	0	0	0	0
Dec 5	atTennessee	W 31–⁠19	3	2	0	0	0	1
Dec 12	vs.LSU	L 34–⁠37	2	2	0	0	0	1
Dec 19	vs.Alabama	L 46–⁠52	6	5	0	0	0	0

2019 Florida 8 games, 10 tackles, 3 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	Int	PD
Sep 7	vs.UT Martin	W 45–⁠0	1	1	1	0
Sep 14	atKentucky	W 29–⁠21	1	1	1	0
Sep 28	vs.Towson	W 38–⁠0	3	2	0	2
Oct 12	atLSU	L 28–⁠42	1	1	0	0
Nov 9	vs.Vanderbilt	W 56–⁠0	0	0	0	1
Nov 16	atMissouri	W 23–⁠6	1	1	0	0
Nov 30	vs.Florida State	W 40–⁠17	1	0	0	0
Dec 30 ✦	vs.Virginia	W 36–⁠28	2	2	1	1

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2022	Combine or pro day 2022
Height	6′1½″
Weight	191 lb
Arm length	30⅞″
Hand size	8⅞″
Wingspan		76½″^W
40-yard dash	4.39 s
10-yard split		1.55 s
Vertical jump		37½″^W
Bench press		10 reps^W
3-cone drill		6.98 s^W
20-yard shuttle		4.21 s^W

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

4 seasons, 31 games with a stat; latest team: Los Angeles Chargers.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Int
2022	Buffalo Bills	11	41	2
2023	Buffalo Bills	2	13	0
2024	Buffalo Bills	7	25	0
2025	Tennessee Titans	11	32	0
NFL career		31	111	2

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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