Marcus Easley in the NFL
In the NFL. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Receiver, UConn, 2007–⁠09

Marcus Easley

Number
No. 29
Height
6′2″
Hometown
Stratford, CT
Born
Nov 2, 1987, in Stratford, Connecticut

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Marcus Easley played receiver at UConn (2007–⁠09). The Buffalo Bills took Easley in round 4, No. 107 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
893
Receiving yards, 2009 (UConn, 8–⁠5)
Drafted
No. 107
Round 4, 2010 NFL Draft (Buffalo Bills)

Career highs

8catches, career highvs. South Florida, 2009157receiving yards, career highat West Virginia, 20092receiving touchdowns, career highvs. Syracuse, 2009

Team titles: Big East champions, 2007

Receiving

Receiving yards, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamRecYdsAvgTDLong
2007*UConn11010.0010
2008*UConn49423.5043
2009UConn4889318.6888
Career5399718.8888

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.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2007UConn29WR
2008UConn29WR
2009UConn29WR6′2″

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 UConn 10 games, 48 catches, 893 yards, 8 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 26vs.Rhode IslandW 52–⁠10226019–
Oct 10atPittsburghL 21–⁠242100179–
Oct 17vs.LouisvilleW 38–⁠256108146–
Oct 24atWest VirginiaL 24–⁠285157188–
Oct 31vs.RutgersL 24–⁠28581132–
Nov 7atCincinnatiL 45–⁠4768712811
Nov 21atNotre DameW 33–⁠30467037–
Nov 28vs.SyracuseW 56–⁠316105242–
Dec 5vs.South FloridaW 29–⁠278122144–
Jan 2 ✦vs.South CarolinaW 20–⁠7440013–
2008 UConn 3 games, 4 catches, 94 yards
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 6atTempleW 12–⁠9118018–
Oct 18atRutgersL 10–⁠12124024–
Dec 6vs.PittsburghL 10–⁠34252043–
2007 UConn 1 game, 1 catch, 10 yards
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 8vs.MaineW 38–⁠0110010–

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2010Combine or pro day 2010
Height6′2¾″
Weight210 lb
Arm length32¾″
Hand size8½″
40-yard dash4.46 s
10-yard split1.54 s
Vertical jump34″
Broad jump10′3″
Bench press16 reps
3-cone drill6.94 s
20-yard shuttle4.60 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

In the NFL

4 seasons, 34 games with a stat; latest team: Buffalo Bills.

SeasonTeamGRecYdsTD
2012Buffalo Bills3000
2013Buffalo Bills142130
2014Buffalo Bills6000
2015Buffalo Bills111581
NFL career343711

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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