Khalil Mack with the Chicago Bears, 2019
With the Chicago Bears, 2019. Photo: All-Pro Reels from District of Columbia, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Linebacker, Buffalo, 2009–⁠13

Khalil Mack

Lettered 2010–⁠13 (school media guide)

Number
No. 46
Height
6′3″
Hometown
Fort Pierce, FL
Born
Feb 22, 1991

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Khalil Mack played linebacker at Buffalo (2009–⁠13). The Oakland Raiders took Mack in the first round, No. 5 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2013
Jack Lambert Trophy and Mid-American Defensive Player of the Year
Drafted
No. 5
Overall, 2014 NFL Draft (Oakland Raiders)

Honors

All-America: FWAA 2013; CBS Sports 2013; Sports Illustrated 2013; College Football News second team 2012

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonTacklesInterceptionsFumbles
SoloAstTotTFLSacksIntYdsPDFRFF
201040286814.54.500012
201138276520.55.5123005
201252429421800204
201356441001910.531251035
Career1861413277528.5414812416

From the college statistics table in Mack’s Wikipedia article (Khalil Mack, 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).

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksIntPBUFFHur
20101240286814.54.501028
20111238276520.55.512513
2012115242942080244
2013N1356441001910.5375–
On file1861413277428.542116–

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

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2009Buffalo46LB
2010Buffalo46LB
2011Buffalo46LB
2012Buffalo46LB
2013Buffalo46LB6′3″

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

2013 Buffalo 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Aug 31atOhio StateL 20–⁠401
Oct 19vs.MassachusettsW 32–⁠31
Oct 26atKent StateW 41–⁠211
2011 Buffalo 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Sep 10vs.Stony BrookW 35–⁠71

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

DrillCombine 2014Combine or pro day 2014
Height6′2⅝″
Weight251 lb
Arm length33¼″
Hand size10¼″
Wingspan81⅛″W
40-yard dash4.65 s
10-yard split1.64 s
Vertical jump40″
Broad jump10′8″
Bench press23 reps
3-cone drill7.08 s
20-yard shuttle4.18 s

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

13 seasons, 179 games with a stat; latest team: Los Angeles Chargers.

Pro Bowls: 9 (2015–⁠20, 2022–⁠24) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 3 (2015–⁠16, 2018) · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2020

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2015–⁠16, 2018; AP second team 2020; Pro Football Writers first team 2015–⁠16, 2018, 2020; Sporting News first team 2015–⁠16, 2018.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2014Oakland Raiders167240
2015Oakland Raiders1575150
2016Oakland Raiders1667111
2017Oakland Raiders166810.50
2018Chicago Bears134312.51
2019Chicago Bears15458.50
2020Chicago Bears154791
2021Chicago Bears71960
2022Los Angeles Chargers174280
2023Los Angeles Chargers1762170
2024Los Angeles Chargers153760
2025Los Angeles Chargers12325.50
2026 (so far)Los Angeles Chargers51530
NFL career1796241163

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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