Tanner Vallejo in the NFL
In the NFL. Photo: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Linebacker, Boise State, 2013–⁠16

Tanner Vallejo

Number
No. 20
Height
6′1″
Hometown
Penn Valley, CA
Born
Dec 16, 1994, in Penn Valley, California

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Tanner Vallejo played linebacker at Boise State (2013–⁠16). The Buffalo Bills took Vallejo in round 6, No. 195 overall in the 2017 NFL Draft.

Career highs

14tackles, career highvs. Washington State, 2016

Team titles: Mountain West champions, 2014

Defense

SeasonTeamTklSoloTFLSacksIntPDHur
2014Boise State––––1––
2016Boise State693961001
Career693961101

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.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBU
2013112823515.50.53

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: 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.PosHt
2013Boise State20LB
2014Boise State20LB
2015Boise State20LB
2016Boise State20LB6′1″

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

2016 Boise State 9 games, 69 tackles, 1 sack
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 3atLouisianaW 45–⁠109210.500
Sep 10vs.Washington StateW 31–⁠2814101000
Sep 24atOregon StateW 38–⁠24420.5000
Oct 7atNew MexicoW 49–⁠21441000
Oct 15vs.Colorado StateW 28–⁠23550000
Oct 20vs.BYUW 28–⁠271150.50.500
Oct 29atWyomingL 28–⁠30500000
Nov 4vs.San José StateW 45–⁠31940000
Nov 12atHawai’iW 52–⁠16872000
2015 Boise State 2 games, 1 return, 2 yards
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 18vs.Idaho StateW 52–⁠0––––––
Oct 10atColorado StateW 41–⁠10––––––
2014 Boise State 1 game, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Dec 6vs.Fresno StateW 28–⁠14––––1–

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

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2017
Height6′1¼″
Weight228 lb
Arm length30½″
Hand size9⅝″
40-yard dash4.67 s
10-yard split1.62 sW
Vertical jump33½″
Broad jump10′1″
Bench press19 repsW
3-cone drill7.08 sW
20-yard shuttle4.39 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

6 seasons, 50 games with a stat; latest team: Arizona Cardinals.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2017Buffalo Bills5500
2018Cleveland Browns82600
2019Arizona Cardinals4710
2020Arizona Cardinals102310
2021Arizona Cardinals890.50
2022Arizona Cardinals152900
NFL career50992.50

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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