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Defensive back, Minnesota, 2016–⁠19

Antoine Winfield Jr.

Number: No. 11
Height: 5′10″
Weight: 205 lb
Class (2019): Sophomore
Hometown: The Woodlands, TX
Born: Aug 16, 1998, in The Woodlands, Texas

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Antoine Winfield Jr. played defensive back at Minnesota (2016–⁠19). He was a consensus All‑American in 2019. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took Winfield in round 2, No. 45 overall in the 2020 NFL Draft.

Best season: 65; Tackles, 2019 (Minnesota, 11–⁠2)
National rank: No. 4; In FBS in interceptions, 2019
Drafted: No. 45; Round 2, 2020 NFL Draft (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

11tackles, career highvs. Penn State, 2019 2interceptions, career hightwice; last vs. Penn State, 2019

Honors

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record

9–⁠45–⁠77–⁠611–⁠2AP 10

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
2016	Minnesota	52	37	2.5	0	1	3
2017	Minnesota	20	17	1	1	0	2
2018	Minnesota	17	10	0	0	1	0
2019	Minnesota	65	45	2.5	2	7	1
Career		154	109	6	3	9	6

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2016	Minnesota	11	DB	Yr 1
2017	Minnesota	11	DB	Yr 2
2018	Minnesota	11	DB	Yr 3
2019	Minnesota	11	DB	So. (Yr 4)	5′10″	205

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

2019 Minnesota 11 games, 65 tackles, 2 sacks, 7 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Aug 29	vs.South Dakota State	W 28–⁠21	4	2	0	0	0	1
Sep 7	atFresno State	W 38–⁠35	4	4	1	1	1	0
Sep 14	vs.Georgia Southern	W 35–⁠32	6	5	0	0	0	0
Oct 5	vs.Illinois	W 40–⁠17	4	2	0	0	1	0
Oct 12	vs.Nebraska	W 34–⁠7	10	7	1	1	0	0
Oct 19	atRutgers	W 42–⁠7	0	0	0	0	2	0
Oct 26	vs.Maryland	W 52–⁠10	6	5	0	0	1	0
Nov 9	vs.Penn State	W 31–⁠26	11	9	0	0	2	0
Nov 16	atIowa	L 19–⁠23	8	5	0	0	0	0
Nov 30	vs.Wisconsin	L 17–⁠38	7	2	0.5	0	0	0
Jan 1 ✦	vs.Auburn	W 31–⁠24	5	4	0	0	0	0

2018 Minnesota 4 games, 17 tackles, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	Int
Aug 30	vs.New Mexico State	W 48–⁠10	5	3	0
Sep 8	vs.Fresno State	W 21–⁠14	5	4	1
Sep 15	vs.Miami (OH)	W 26–⁠3	6	2	0
Sep 22	atMaryland	L 13–⁠42	1	1	0

2017 Minnesota 4 games, 20 tackles, 1 sack

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Aug 31	vs.Buffalo	W 17–⁠7	7	5	1	1	2
Sep 9	atOregon State	W 48–⁠14	4	4	0	0	0
Sep 16	vs.Middle Tennessee	W 34–⁠3	7	6	0	0	0
Sep 30	vs.Maryland	L 24–⁠31	2	2	0	0	0

2016 Minnesota 10 games, 52 tackles, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
Sep 10	vs.Indiana State	W 58–⁠28	1	0	0	0	0
Oct 1	atPenn State	L 26–⁠29	8	6	1.5	0	1
Oct 8	vs.Iowa	L 7–⁠14	3	3	0	0	0
Oct 15	atMaryland	W 31–⁠10	5	4	1	1	0
Oct 22	vs.Rutgers	W 34–⁠32	6	4	0	0	0
Oct 29	atIllinois	W 40–⁠17	7	5	0	0	1
Nov 5	vs.Purdue	W 44–⁠31	3	3	0	0	0
Nov 12	atNebraska	L 17–⁠24	10	5	0	0	0
Nov 19	vs.Northwestern	W 29–⁠12	5	4	0	0	1
Nov 26	atWisconsin	L 17–⁠31	4	3	0	0	0

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2020
Height	5′9⅛″
Weight	203 lb
Arm length	30⅛″
Hand size	9½″
Wingspan	72¾″^W
40-yard dash	4.45 s
10-yard split	1.52 s^W
Vertical jump	36″
Broad jump	10′4″

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, 88 games with a stat; latest team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Pro Bowls: 2 (2021, 2025) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2023

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2023; Sporting News first team 2023.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2020	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	16	92	3	1
2021	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	13	85	2	2
2022	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	13	69	4	1
2023	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	17	110	6	3
2024	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	8	57	2	0
2025	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	17	93	1	2
2026 (so far)	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	4	24	0	0
NFL career		88	530	18	9

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). 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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