Tight end, Notre Dame, 2011–13
Troy Niklas
- Number
- No. 85
- Height
- 6′6″
- Hometown
- Fullerton, CA
- Born
- Sep 18, 1992, in Fullerton, California
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Troy Niklas played tight end at Notre Dame (2011–13). The Arizona Cardinals took Niklas in round 2, No. 52 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Career highs
6catches, career highat Michigan, 2013Receiving
| Season | Team | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012* | Notre Dame | 5 | 75 | 15.0 | 1 | 30 |
| 2013* | Notre Dame | 32 | 498 | 15.6 | 5 | 66 |
| Career | 37 | 573 | 15.5 | 6 | 66 | |
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 0.5 | 2 |
| 2013N | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |
| On file | 9 | 12 | 21 | 0.5 | – | |
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 | Notre Dame | 85 | TE | |
| 2012 | Notre Dame | 85 | TE | |
| 2013 | Notre Dame | 85 | TE | 6′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.
Per play
| Season | Team | Plays | EPA/play | Pctile | Median | Total | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Notre Dame | 28 | 1.32 | – | – | 37.0 | 4% |
Expected points added: how much the player’s plays moved the team’s expected score, per play and in total. Plays: total EPA divided by EPA per play, the plays the source credits to him (for a receiver roughly his catches and runs, not every target; for a passer, not every attempt), so it can differ from attempts plus carries. Percentile: against the position’s regulars that season across all divisions on file (quarterbacks with 150+ plays, backs 60+, receivers and tight ends 30+), with how many there were (n) and their median; a dash means too few plays to rank. A season in progress uses the full-season bar scaled by games played, never below 75 plays for quarterbacks, 30 for backs and 20 for receivers. The cohort grows or shrinks with the source’s coverage each season (2025 lists far more players), so compare percentiles rather than raw EPA across years. FCS seasons are marked. Usage: the share of the team’s plays the player was part of (shown from 20 plays). From CollegeFootballData, 2013 on.
Game by game
2013 Notre Dame 13 games, 32 catches, 498 yards, 5 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | vs. Temple | W 28–6 | 1 | 66 | 1 | 66 |
| Sep 7 | at Michigan | L 30–41 | 6 | 76 | 1 | 21 |
| Sep 14 | at Purdue | W 31–24 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| Sep 21 | vs. Michigan State | W 17–13 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Sep 28 | vs. Oklahoma | L 21–35 | 2 | 43 | 1 | 30 |
| Oct 5 | vs. Arizona State | W 37–34 | 3 | 49 | 1 | 21 |
| Oct 19 | vs. USC | W 14–10 | 4 | 58 | 1 | 30 |
| Oct 26 | at Air Force | W 45–10 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 11 |
| Nov 2 | vs. Navy | W 38–34 | 2 | 44 | 0 | 28 |
| Nov 9 | at Pittsburgh | L 21–28 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 9 |
| Nov 23 | vs. BYU | W 23–13 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Nov 30 | at Stanford | L 20–27 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 19 |
| Dec 28 ✦ | vs. Rutgers | W 29–16 | 4 | 76 | 0 | 28 |
2012 Notre Dame 5 games, 5 catches, 75 yards, 1 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | vs.Navy | W 50–10 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 29 |
| Sep 8 | vs.Purdue | W 20–17 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 30 |
| Oct 6 | vs. Miami | W 41–3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Oct 20 | vs.BYU | W 17–14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Nov 10 | at Boston College | W 21–6 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2014 |
|---|---|
| Height | 6′6½″ |
| Weight | 270 lb |
| Arm length | 34⅛″ |
| Hand size | 10″ |
| 40-yard dash | 4.84 sW |
| Vertical jump | 32″ |
| Broad jump | 9′6″ |
| Bench press | 27 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 7.57 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.55 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
4 seasons, 23 games with a stat; latest team: Arizona Cardinals.
| Season | Team | G | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Arizona Cardinals | 4 | 3 | 38 | 0 |
| 2015 | Arizona Cardinals | 5 | 4 | 33 | 2 |
| 2016 | Arizona Cardinals | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | Arizona Cardinals | 11 | 11 | 132 | 1 |
| NFL career | 23 | 19 | 203 | 3 | |
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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