Sione Fua with the Denver Broncos, 2013
With the Denver Broncos, 2013. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive line, Stanford, 2006–⁠10

Sione Fua

Number
No. 92
Height
6′2″
Weight
306 lb
Hometown
Encino, CA
Born
Jun 15, 1988, in Encino, California

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Sione Fua played defensive line at Stanford (2006–⁠10). The Carolina Panthers took Fua in round 3, No. 97 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2010
Second-team All-Pac-10
Drafted
No. 97
Round 3, 2011 NFL Draft (Carolina Panthers)

Honors

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

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUFFHur
2008N121161763–––
2009106182431.5202
20101113102364.5020
On file303464159–––

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

SeasonTeamNo.PosHtWt
2009Stanford92DL
2010Stanford92DL6′2″306

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

DrillCombine 2011Combine or pro day 2011
Height6′1½″
Weight308 lb
Arm length34″
Hand size10½″
Wingspan80⅛″W
40-yard dash5.28 s
10-yard split1.77 s
Vertical jump24″
Broad jump8′5″
Bench press30 reps
3-cone drill7.54 s
20-yard shuttle4.54 s

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

4 seasons, 21 games with a stat; latest team: Cleveland Browns.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2011Carolina Panthers6900
2012Carolina Panthers81300
2013Denver Broncos1100
2014Cleveland Browns61200
NFL career213500

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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