Trent Murphy at Stanford, 2013
Photo: Yock, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Linebacker, Stanford, 2009–⁠13

Trent Murphy

Number
No. 93
Height
6′6″
Hometown
Mesa, AZ
Born
Dec 22, 1990, in Scottsdale, Arizona

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Trent Murphy played linebacker at Stanford (2009–⁠13). He was a consensus All‑American in 2013. The Washington Redskins took Murphy in round 2, No. 47 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2013
Consensus All-American and First-team All-Pac-12
Drafted
No. 47
Round 2, 2014 NFL Draft (Washington Redskins)

Honors

Team titles: Pac-12 champions, 2012 and 2013

All-America: consensus 2013; AP third team 2012

Defense

SeasonTeamInt
2012Stanford1
2013Stanford1
Career2

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksIntPBUFFHur
20101202110000
201113251540106.50100
20121438185618101416
2013N1437256223.515162–
On file1025816052.532.52113–

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.PosHt
2009Stanford93OLB
2010Stanford93OLB
2011Stanford93OLB
2012Stanford93OLB
2013Stanford93OLB6′6″

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

2013 Stanford 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Sep 28atWashington StateW 55–⁠171
2012 Stanford 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Sep 27atWashingtonL 13–⁠171

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 2014 Senior Bowl (North team, lost 10–⁠20).

DrillCombine 2014
Height6′5⅜″
Weight250 lb
Arm length33⅞″
Hand size11⅛″
40-yard dash4.86 s
10-yard split1.65 sW
Vertical jump35½″
Broad jump9′10″
Bench press19 reps
3-cone drill6.78 s
20-yard shuttle4.20 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

6 seasons, 81 games with a stat; latest team: Buffalo Bills.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2014Washington Redskins13272.50
2015Washington Redskins16333.50
2016Washington Redskins154490
2018Buffalo Bills132040
2019Buffalo Bills153351
2020Buffalo Bills91520
NFL career81172261

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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