Cornerback, Michigan State, 2011–14
Trae Waynes
Lettered 2012–14 (school media guide)
- Number
- No. 15
- Height
- 6′1″
- Hometown
- Kenosha, WI
- Born
- Jul 25, 1992, in Kenosha, Wisconsin
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Trae Waynes played cornerback at Michigan State (2011–14). The Minnesota Vikings took Waynes in the first round, No. 11 overall in the 2015 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
Team titles: Big Ten champions, 2013
Season by season, from Wikipedia
| Season | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | GS | Tot | Solo | Ast | Sacks | PD | Int | Yds | TD | FF | FR | |
| 2012 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 14 | 14 | 50 | 35 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 12 | 12 | 46 | 34 | 12 | 1.5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Career | 35 | 27 | 101 | 71 | 30 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
From the college statistics table in Waynes’s Wikipedia article (Trae Waynes, 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 | Sacks | Int | PBU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013N | 14 | 35 | 15 | 50 | 1.5 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| On file | 37 | 18 | 55 | 2 | 0.5 | 3 | 5 | |
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
| Season | Team | No. | Pos | Ht |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Michigan State | 15 | CB | |
| 2012 | Michigan State | 15 | CB | |
| 2013 | Michigan State | 15 | CB | |
| 2014 | Michigan State | 15 | CB | 6′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
2014 Michigan State 2 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Int |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4 | vs. Nebraska | W 27–22 | 2 |
| Nov 29 | at Penn State | W 34–10 | 1 |
2013 Michigan State 2 games with an interception on file, 3 INT
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
| Drill | Combine 2015 | Combine or pro day 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 6′0⅛″ | |
| Weight | 186 lb | |
| Arm length | 31″ | |
| Hand size | 8¼″ | |
| 40-yard dash | 4.31 s | |
| 10-yard split | 1.53 s | |
| Vertical jump | 38″ | |
| Broad jump | 10′2″ | |
| Bench press | 19 reps | |
| 3-cone drill | 7.06 s | |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.39 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
6 seasons, 72 games with a stat; latest team: Cincinnati Bengals.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Minnesota Vikings | 10 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | Minnesota Vikings | 14 | 50 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | Minnesota Vikings | 16 | 64 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | Minnesota Vikings | 13 | 43 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | Minnesota Vikings | 14 | 56 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | Cincinnati Bengals | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 72 | 253 | 1 | 7 | |
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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