Linebacker, TCU, 2012–14
Paul Dawson
- Number
- No. 47
- Height
- 6′2″
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Hometown
- Dallas, TX
- Born
- Jan 13, 1993, in Dallas, Texas
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Paul Dawson played linebacker at TCU (2012–14). He was a consensus All‑American in 2014. The Cincinnati Bengals took Dawson in round 3, No. 99 overall in the 2015 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
Team titles: Big 12 champions, 2014
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
The teams
No defensive lines in our box scores: before 2016 they record only interceptions for defenders. His defense from other sources is below.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Sacks | Int | PBU | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013N | 12 | 47 | 44 | 91 | 10 | 0.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| On file | 55 | 50 | 105 | 11 | 0.5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
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
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.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2015 | Combine or pro day 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 6′0⅛″ | |
| Weight | 235 lb | |
| Arm length | 31½″ | |
| Hand size | 9½″ | |
| 40-yard dash | 4.93 s | |
| 10-yard split | 1.68 s | |
| Vertical jump | 28″ | |
| Broad jump | 9′1″ | |
| Bench press | 21 reps | |
| 3-cone drill | 6.76 s | |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.49 s |
Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).
In the NFL
3 seasons, 11 games with a stat; latest team: Seattle Seahawks.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Cincinnati Bengals | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | Cincinnati Bengals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | Seattle Seahawks | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
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.
Other pro football
| Years | League | Team |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | CFL | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 2023 | XFL | Vegas Vipers |
Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams.
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