Mason Foster

Number: No. 40
Height: 6′2″
Hometown: Seaside, CA
Born: Mar 1, 1989

Mason Foster played linebacker at Washington (2007–⁠10). The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took Foster in round 3, No. 84 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2010; First-team All-Pac-10
Drafted: No. 84; Round 3, 2011 NFL Draft (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Honors

2010First-team All-Pac-10

All-America: AP third team 2010; Scout.com first team 2010; College Football News 2010; Rivals.com 2010

Defense

Season	Team	Int
2008*	Washington	1
2009	Washington	3
On file (2008–⁠09)		4

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	TFL	Sacks	Int	PBU	FF	Hur
2007^N	13	19	6	25	5	1	–	–	–	–
2008	12	58	47	105	12	1	1	2	0	1
2009	12	60	25	85	7.5	2	3	6	6	1
2010^N	13	106	57	163	14	6.5	–	3	2	–
On file		243	135	378	38.5	10.5	–	–	–	–

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
2008	Washington	40	LB
2009	Washington	40	LB
2010	Washington	40	LB	6′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 Washington 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 12	vs.Idaho	W 42–⁠23	1
Oct 10	vs.Arizona	W 36–⁠33	1
Nov 28	vs.Washington State	W 30–⁠0	1

2008 Washington 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 6	vs.BYU	L 27–⁠28	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′1¼″
Weight	245 lb
Arm length	31″
Hand size	9⅝″
Wingspan		74⅜″^W
40-yard dash	4.79 s
10-yard split		1.63 s
Vertical jump	31″
Broad jump	9′2″
Bench press	22 reps
3-cone drill	7.14 s
20-yard shuttle	4.45 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

8 seasons, 103 games with a stat; latest team: Washington Redskins.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2011	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	15	77	2	1
2012	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	16	93	2	1
2013	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	15	82	2	3
2014	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	10	50	0	0
2015	Washington Redskins	10	37	0	0
2016	Washington Redskins	16	114	1	0
2017	Washington Redskins	5	28	0.5	1
2018	Washington Redskins	16	114	1	2
NFL career		103	595	8.5	8

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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