Louis Nix III in the NFL, 2014
In the NFL, 2014. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive line, Notre Dame, 2010–⁠13

Louis Nix III

Number
No. 1
Height
6′2″
Weight
342 lb
Hometown
Jacksonville, FL
Born
Jul 31, 1991
Died
Feb 27, 2021

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Louis Nix III played defensive line at Notre Dame (2010–⁠13). The Houston Texans took Nix in round 3, No. 83 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

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

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUFFHur
2011121233454.50.5100
2012132030507.52513
2013N81116272020–
On file4379122142.581–

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.PosHtWt
2010Notre Dame67
2011Notre Dame1DL
2012Notre Dame1DL
2013Notre Dame1DL6′2″342

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

DrillCombine 2014Pro day 2014
Height6′2⅜″
Weight331 lb
Arm length33″
Hand size9⅞″
40-yard dash5.42 s5.38 sW
10-yard split1.87 sW
Vertical jump25½″
Broad jump8′1″
Bench press24 repsW
3-cone drill8.29 s8.01 sW
20-yard shuttle4.94 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

His NFL seasons aren’t on this page yet: our NFL numbers are matched to college players by an ID his college record doesn’t carry. His NFL career is in his Wikipedia article.

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