With the New York Jets, 2011. Photo: Marianne O’Leary, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Receiver, Ohio State, 2002–⁠05

Santonio Holmes

Born: Mar 3, 1984, in Belle Glade, Florida

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Santonio Holmes played receiver at Ohio State (2002–⁠05). The Pittsburgh Steelers took Holmes in the first round, No. 25 overall in the 2006 NFL Draft.

Best season: 977; Receiving yards, 2005 (Ohio State, 10–⁠2)
Best game: 224 yards; Vs. Marshall, week 3, 2004: No. 2 receiving game in FBS that week
Drafted: No. 25; Overall, 2006 NFL Draft (Pittsburgh Steelers)

10catches, best game on filetwice; last at Northwestern, 2004 224receiving yards, best game on filevs. Marshall, 2004 2receiving touchdowns, best game on filefour times; last vs. Illinois, 2005

Honors

Team titles: Big Ten champions, 2005

Receiving

Receiving yards, season by season, with his team’s record

769

977

8–⁠4AP 2010–⁠2AP 4

Season	Team	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2004	Ohio State	55	769	14.0	7	80
2005	Ohio State	53	977	18.4	11	85
On file (2004–⁠05)		108	1,746	16.2	18	85

Returns

Season	Team	PR	Yds	TD
2004	Ohio State	29	214	1
2005	Ohio State	14	141	0
On file (2004–⁠05)		43	355	1

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). Kickoff returns are in our source’s box scores from 2009; before that most are missing, so return totals from those years may leave them out.

Game by game

2005 Ohio State 12 games, 53 catches, 977 yards, 11 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	PR
Sep 3	vs.Miami (OH)	W 34–⁠14	5	74	1	1
Sep 10	vs.Texas	L 22–⁠25	4	73	1	–
Sep 17	vs.San Diego State	W 27–⁠6	4	42	0	5
Sep 24	vs.Iowa	W 31–⁠6	5	95	0	1
Oct 8	atPenn State	L 10–⁠17	4	41	0	–
Oct 15	vs.Michigan State	W 35–⁠24	5	150	2	2
Oct 22	atIndiana	W 41–⁠10	5	104	1	–
Oct 29	atMinnesota	W 45–⁠31	4	94	2	–
Nov 5	vs.Illinois	W 40–⁠2	3	59	2	–
Nov 12	vs.Northwestern	W 48–⁠7	3	49	0	3
Nov 19	atMichigan	W 25–⁠21	6	72	1	1
Jan 2 ✦	vs.Notre Dame	W 34–⁠20	5	124	1	1

2004 Ohio State 12 games, 29 returns, 214 yards

Date	Opponent	Result	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	PR
Sep 4	vs.Cincinnati	W 27–⁠6	4	91	1	1
Sep 11	vs.Marshall	W 24–⁠21	10	224	2	4
Sep 18	atNC State	W 22–⁠14	2	16	0	5
Oct 2	atNorthwestern	L 27–⁠33	10	99	1	5
Oct 9	vs.Wisconsin	L 13–⁠24	3	34	0	3
Oct 16	atIowa	L 7–⁠33	4	56	0	–
Oct 23	vs.Indiana	W 30–⁠7	4	42	1	3
Oct 30	vs.Penn State	W 21–⁠10	2	20	0	3
Nov 6	atMichigan State	W 32–⁠19	4	41	0	2
Nov 13	atPurdue	L 17–⁠24	4	49	1	1
Nov 20	vs.Michigan	W 37–⁠21	3	50	1	1
Dec 29 ✦	vs.Oklahoma State	W 33–⁠7	5	47	0	1

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2006	Combine or pro day 2006
Height	5′10⅝″
Weight	188 lb
Arm length	30½″
Hand size	8⅞″
40-yard dash		4.35 s^W
Vertical jump		38″^W
Broad jump		10′6″^W
3-cone drill		6.82 s^W
20-yard shuttle		4.26 s^W

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

9 seasons, 109 games with a stat; latest team: Chicago Bears.

Season	Team	G	Tkl
2006	Pittsburgh Steelers	16	1
2007	Pittsburgh Steelers	13	2
2008	Pittsburgh Steelers	15	–
2009	Pittsburgh Steelers	16	1
2010	New York Jets	12	2
2011	New York Jets	16	2
2012	New York Jets	4	–
2013	New York Jets	10	1
2014	Chicago Bears	7	–
NFL career		109	9

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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At a glance

Career highs