Linebacker, Penn State, 2006–⁠09

Navorro Bowman

Number: No. 11
Height: 6′1″
Weight: 232 lb
Hometown: District Heights, MD
Born: May 28, 1988

Navorro Bowman played linebacker at Penn State (2006–⁠09). The San Francisco 49ers took Bowman in round 3, No. 91 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2009; First-team All-Big Ten
Drafted: No. 91; Round 3, 2010 NFL Draft (San Francisco 49ers)

Honors

2008, 2009First-team All-Big Ten

Team titles: Big Ten champions, 2008

All-America: Sporting News second team 2009; AP third team 2009

Defense

Season	Team	Int
2008	Penn State	1
2009	Penn State	2
Career		3

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Every season here is summed from the game box scores (the source has no season lines for them; a game missing from the box scores is missing here). 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	9	4	12	16	2.5	1	–	1	1	–
2008	13	61	45	106	16.5	4	1	5	2	0
2009	10	52	41	93	17	3	2	3	0	1
On file		117	98	215	36	8	–	9	3	–

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	Wt
2008	Penn State
2009	Penn State	11	LB	6′1″	232

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 Penn State 2 games with an interception on file, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Oct 24	atMichigan	W 35–⁠10	1
Nov 14	vs.Indiana	W 31–⁠20	1

2008 Penn State 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 20	vs.Temple	W 45–⁠3	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 2010
Height	6′0½″
Weight	242 lb
Arm length	33″
Hand size	9⅞″
40-yard dash	4.77 s
10-yard split	1.65 s^W
Vertical jump	29½″
Broad jump	9′7″
Bench press	26 reps
3-cone drill	6.91 s
20-yard shuttle	4.59 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

7 seasons, 98 games with a stat; latest team: Oakland Raiders.

Pro Bowls: 3 (2012–⁠13, 2015) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 4 (2011–⁠13, 2015)

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2011–⁠13, 2015; Sporting News first team 2013.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2010	San Francisco 49ers	15	44	0	0
2011	San Francisco 49ers	16	133	2	0
2012	San Francisco 49ers	16	134	2	1
2013	San Francisco 49ers	16	128	5	2
2015	San Francisco 49ers	16	137	2.5	0
2016	San Francisco 49ers	4	31	1	1
2017	Oakland Raiders	15	109	1.5	1
NFL career		98	716	14	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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