Safety, Florida, 2007–09
Major Wright
- Number
- No. 21
- Height
- 6′0″
- Hometown
- Miramar, FL
- Born
- Jul 1, 1988, in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida
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Major Wright played safety at Florida (2007–09). The Chicago Bears took Wright in round 3, No. 75 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.
Team titles: National champions, 2008; SEC champions, 2008
Defense
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short. 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 | Int | PBU | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | 47 | 20 | 67 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 14 | 36 | 30 | 66 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 2009N | 14 | 28 | 4 | 32 | 3 | 2 | – |
| On file | 111 | 54 | 165 | 8 | 10 | – | |
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
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
2009 Florida 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5 | vs. Charleston Southern | W 62–3 | 1 |
| Sep 26 | at Kentucky | W 41–7 | 1 |
| Oct 24 | at Mississippi State | W 29–19 | 1 |
2008 Florida 4 games with an interception on file, 4 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30 | vs. Hawai’i | W 56–10 | 1 |
| Sep 27 | vs. Ole Miss | L 30–31 | 1 |
| Nov 29 | at Florida State | W 45–15 | 1 |
| Jan 8 ✦ | vs. Oklahoma | W 24–14 | 1 |
2007 Florida 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 ✦ | vs. Michigan | L 35–41 | 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 2010 |
|---|---|
| Height | 5′11½″ |
| Weight | 206 lb |
| Arm length | 31″ |
| Hand size | 9¾″ |
| 40-yard dash | 4.48 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.55 sW |
| Vertical jump | 37½″ |
| Broad jump | 9′11″ |
| Bench press | 14 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 6.95 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.36 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
6 seasons, 65 games with a stat; latest team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Chicago Bears | 6 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | Chicago Bears | 11 | 58 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | Chicago Bears | 16 | 70 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | Chicago Bears | 15 | 99 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 9 | 51 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 8 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 65 | 323 | 0 | 9 | |
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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