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Linebacker, Missouri, 2011–⁠15

Kentrell Brothers

Lettered 2012–⁠15 (school media guide)

Number: No. 10
Height: 6′1″
Hometown: Guthrie, OK
Born: Feb 8, 1993, in Guthrie, Oklahoma

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Kentrell Brothers played linebacker at Missouri (2011–⁠15). The Minnesota Vikings took Brothers in round 5, No. 160 overall in the 2016 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2015; First-team All-SEC
Drafted: No. 160; Round 5, 2016 NFL Draft (Minnesota Vikings)

Honors

All-America: AP second team 2015; Sporting News second team 2015; Walter Camp second team 2015; Athlon Sports 2015; CBS Sports 2015; Sports Illustrated 2015

Defense

Season	Team	Int
2013	Missouri	3
2015	Missouri	2
Career		5

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Sacks	Int	PBU
2012	7	7	7	14	0	0	0	1
2013^N	14	40	30	70	6.5	1	3	3
On file		47	37	84	6.5	1	3	4

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
2011	Missouri	10	LB
2012	Missouri	10	LB
2013	Missouri	10	LB
2014	Missouri	10	LB
2015	Missouri	10	LB	6′1″

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

2015 Missouri 1 game with an interception on file, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 12	atArkansas State	W 27–⁠20	2

2013 Missouri 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 21	atIndiana	W 45–⁠28	1
Oct 5	atVanderbilt	W 51–⁠28	1
Oct 12	atGeorgia	W 41–⁠26	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 2016	Pro day 2016
Height	6′0⅜″
Weight	245 lb
Arm length	30¾″
Hand size	9¾″
40-yard dash	4.89 s	4.73 s^W
10-yard split		1.68 s^W
Vertical jump	28½″	31½″^W
Broad jump	9′2″
Bench press	19 reps	19 reps^W
3-cone drill	6.99 s
20-yard shuttle	4.11 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

4 seasons, 30 games with a stat; latest team: Minnesota Vikings.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks
2016	Minnesota Vikings	7	9	0
2017	Minnesota Vikings	8	13	0
2018	Minnesota Vikings	7	10	1
2019	Minnesota Vikings	8	22	0
NFL career		30	54	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.

Other pro football

Years	League	Team
2021	CFL	Montreal Alouettes *

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams. * Off-season roster or practice squad only.

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