Safety, USC, 2006–09
Taylor Mays
- Number
- No. 2
- Height
- 6′3″
- Hometown
- Seattle, WA
- Born
- Feb 7, 1988, in Seattle, Washington
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Taylor Mays played safety at USC (2006–09). He was a consensus All‑American in 2008. The San Francisco 49ers took Mays in round 2, No. 49 overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
Team titles: Pac-10 champions, 2006, 2007 and 2008
All-America: consensus 2008; Walter Camp first team 2009; Sporting News 2007; AP second team 2009; Sporting News second team 2009; AP third team 2007; College Football News 2009
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Season by season, from Wikipedia
| Season | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | GS | Solo | Ast | Tot | TFL | Int | Yds | TD | PD | FF | FR | |
| 2006 | 13 | 12 | 38 | 24 | 62 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 13 | 13 | 36 | 29 | 65 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 13 | 13 | 38 | 15 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 12 | 12 | 48 | 48 | 96 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 51 | 50 | 160 | 116 | 276 | 2 | 5 | 40 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
From the college statistics table in Mays’s Wikipedia article (Taylor Mays, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Int | PBU | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 13 | 38 | 24 | 62 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2007 | 13 | 36 | 29 | 65 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 2008 | 13 | 38 | 15 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 2009 | 12 | 48 | 48 | 96 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| On file | 160 | 116 | 276 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 1 | |
Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). 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.
Game by game
2009 USC 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3 | at California | W 30–3 | 1 |
2007 USC 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6 | vs. Stanford | L 23–24 | 1 |
2006 USC 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30 | at Washington State | W 28–22 | 1 |
| Nov 11 | vs. Oregon | W 35–10 | 1 |
| Nov 18 | vs.California | W 23–9 | 1 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.
Before the draft
Played in the 2010 Senior Bowl (South team, lost 13–31).
| Drill | Combine 2010 | Combine or pro day 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 6′3⅛″ | |
| Weight | 230 lb | |
| Arm length | 34″ | |
| Hand size | 10¼″ | |
| 40-yard dash | 4.43 s | |
| 10-yard split | 1.56 s | |
| Vertical jump | 41″ | |
| Broad jump | 10′5″ | |
| Bench press | 24 reps | |
| 3-cone drill | 6.98 s | |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.24 s |
Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the NFL
6 seasons, 54 games with a stat; latest team: Oakland Raiders.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | San Francisco 49ers | 11 | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | Cincinnati Bengals | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | Cincinnati Bengals | 11 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | Cincinnati Bengals | 7 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | Cincinnati Bengals | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | Oakland Raiders | 10 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 54 | 120 | 1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | CFL | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams.
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