Marcell Dareus

Number: No. 57
Height: 6′4″
Hometown: Huffman, AL
Born: Mar 13, 1990, in Birmingham, Alabama

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Marcell Dareus played defensive line at Alabama (2008–⁠10). The Buffalo Bills took Dareus in the first round, No. 3 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2010; First-team All-SEC
Drafted: No. 3; Overall, 2011 NFL Draft (Buffalo Bills)

Honors

2010First-team All-SEC

Team titles: National champions, 2009; SEC champions, 2009

All-America: AP third team 2010; Pro Football Weekly 2010

Season by season, from Wikipedia

Season	Team	Games		Tackles					Interceptions
Season	Team	G	GS	Solo	Ast	Tot	TFL	Sacks	Int	Yds	PD
2008	8	8	0	1	3	4	0	0	0	0	0
2009	14	14	4	19	14	33	9	6.5	1	28	3
2010	11	11	11	20	14	34	11	4.5	0	0	4
Career		33	15	40	31	71	20	11	1	28	7

From the college statistics table in Dareus’s Wikipedia article (Marcell Dareus, 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

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Sacks	Int	PBU	Hur
2008^N	8	1	3	4	0	0	–	–	–
2009	14	19	14	33	9	6.5	1	2	7
2010	11	20	13	33	11	4.5	0	4	10
On file		40	30	70	20	11	–	–	–

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
2009	Alabama	57	DL
2010	Alabama	57	DL	6′4″

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 Alabama 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Jan 7 ✦	vs.Texas	W 37–⁠21	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 2011	Combine or pro day 2011
Height	6′3⅛″
Weight	319 lb
Arm length	33⅜″
Hand size	10⅛″
Wingspan		79⅜″^W
40-yard dash	4.95 s
10-yard split		1.73 s
Vertical jump	27″
Broad jump		8′10″
Bench press	24 reps
3-cone drill	7.83 s
20-yard shuttle	4.62 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

9 seasons, 114 games with a stat; latest team: Jacksonville Jaguars.

Pro Bowls: 2 (2013–⁠14) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2014

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2014; Pro Football Writers first team 2014.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks
2011	Buffalo Bills	16	32	5.5
2012	Buffalo Bills	16	34	5.5
2013	Buffalo Bills	16	54	7.5
2014	Buffalo Bills	15	41	10
2015	Buffalo Bills	15	41	2
2016	Buffalo Bills	8	30	3.5
2017	Jacksonville Jaguars	11	25	2
2018	Jacksonville Jaguars	12	30	1
2019	Jacksonville Jaguars	5	13	0.5
NFL career		114	300	37.5

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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