Cornerback, LSU, 2009–11
Morris Claiborne
- Number
- No. 17
- Height
- 6′0″
- Hometown
- Shreveport, LA
- Born
- Feb 7, 1990, in Shreveport, Louisiana
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Morris Claiborne played cornerback at LSU (2009–11). He won the 2011 Jim Thorpe Award. He was a consensus All‑American in 2011. The Dallas Cowboys took Claiborne in the first round, No. 6 overall in the 2012 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
- 2010Second-team All-SEC
- 2011Jim Thorpe Award
- 2011Consensus All‑American
- 2011SEC Defensive Player of the Year
- 2011First-team All-SEC
Team titles: SEC champions, 2011
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Defense
Returns
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. 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 | Int | PBU | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 12 | 19 | 18 | 37 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 2011 | 14 | 32 | 19 | 51 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| On file | 54 | 41 | 95 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 2 | |
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
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
2011 LSU 5 games with an interception on file, 6 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int | KR | Yds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15 | at Mississippi State | W 19–6 | 2 | 2 | 55 |
| Oct 15 | at Tennessee | W 38–7 | 1 | 1 | 34 |
| Nov 5 | at Alabama | W 9–6 | 1 | – | – |
| Nov 25 | vs. Arkansas | W 41–17 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| Dec 3 | vs. Georgia | W 42–10 | 1 | 2 | 30 |
2010 LSU 4 games with an interception on file, 5 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int | KR | Yds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18 | vs.Mississippi State | W 29–7 | 2 | – | – |
| Oct 9 | at Florida | W 33–29 | 1 | 1 | 32 |
| Oct 16 | vs. McNeese | W 32–10 | 1 | – | – |
| Nov 27 | atArkansas | L 23–31 | 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 2012 | Pro day 2012 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 5′11⅛″ | 5′11⅛″W |
| Weight | 188 lb | 188 lbW |
| Arm length | 33¼″ | 33¼″W |
| Hand size | 8½″ | 8½″W |
| 40-yard dash | 4.50 s | 4.43 sW |
| 10-yard split | 1.56 sW | |
| Vertical jump | 34½″ | 35″W |
| Broad jump | 9′10″ | 9′10″W |
| 3-cone drill | 7.01 s | 7.01 sW |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.12 s | 4.12 sW |
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, 82 games with a stat; latest team: Kansas City Chiefs.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Dallas Cowboys | 15 | 55 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | Dallas Cowboys | 10 | 26 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | Dallas Cowboys | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | Dallas Cowboys | 11 | 37 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | Dallas Cowboys | 7 | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | New York Jets | 15 | 42 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | New York Jets | 15 | 55 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | Kansas City Chiefs | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 82 | 259 | 0 | 7 | |
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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