Morgan Burnett with the Green Bay Packers, 2012
With the Green Bay Packers, 2012. Photo: Mike Morbeck, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Safety, Georgia Tech, 2007–⁠09

Morgan Burnett

Number
No. 1
Height
6′1″
Hometown
College Park, GA
Born
Jan 13, 1989

Morgan Burnett played safety at Georgia Tech (2007–⁠09). The Green Bay Packers took Burnett in round 3, No. 71 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.

All-America: Pro Football Weekly 2008

Team titles: ACC champions, 2009

Defense

SeasonTeamInt
2007*Georgia Tech3
2008*Georgia Tech7
2009Georgia Tech4
Career14

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

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksIntPBUFF
2007133720572.51370
20081362319370781
20091448378540441
On file1478823513.5114192

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2007Georgia Tech1S
2008Georgia Tech1S
2009Georgia Tech1S6′1″

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 Georgia Tech 3 games with an interception on file, 4 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Sep 5vs.Jacksonville StateW 37–⁠171
Sep 26vs.North CarolinaW 24–⁠72
Oct 17vs.Virginia TechW 28–⁠231
2008 Georgia Tech 5 games with an interception on file, 7 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Aug 28vs.Jacksonville StateW 41–⁠142
Sep 20vs.Mississippi StateW 38–⁠71
Oct 18atClemsonW 21–⁠172
Oct 25vs.VirginiaL 17–⁠241
Nov 29atGeorgiaW 45–⁠421
2007 Georgia Tech 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Sep 22atVirginiaL 23–⁠281
Sep 29vs.ClemsonW 13–⁠31
Oct 20vs.ArmyW 34–⁠101

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

DrillCombine 2010Combine or pro day 2010
Height6′1⅜″
Weight209 lb
Arm length31¾″
Hand size9″
40-yard dash4.51 s
10-yard split1.57 sW
Vertical jump39½″
Broad jump11′8″
Bench press16 reps
3-cone drill6.87 s
20-yard shuttle3.92 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

10 seasons, 120 games with a stat; latest team: Cleveland Browns.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2010Green Bay Packers41201
2011Green Bay Packers169513
2012Green Bay Packers1611222
2013Green Bay Packers138900
2014Green Bay Packers151171.51
2015Green Bay Packers116400
2016Green Bay Packers158832
2017Green Bay Packers126100
2018Pittsburgh Steelers102700
2019Cleveland Browns83821
NFL career1207039.510

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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