Cornerback, LSU, 2010–12
Tyrann Mathieu
- Number
- No. 7
- Height
- 5′9″
- Hometown
- New Orleans, LA
- Born
- May 13, 1992, in New Orleans, Louisiana
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Tyrann Mathieu played cornerback at LSU (2010–12). He won the 2011 Chuck Bednarik Award. He finished fifth in the 2011 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 2011. The Arizona Cardinals took Mathieu in round 3, No. 69 overall in the 2013 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
- 2011Chuck Bednarik Award
- 2011Consensus All‑American
- 2011SEC Defensive Player of the Year
- 2011First-team All-SEC
- 2011Fifth in the Heisman vote
Team titles: SEC champions, 2011
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Returns
| Season | Team | PR | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | LSU | 34 | 421 | 2 |
Defense
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | Sacks | Int | PBU | FF | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13 | 34 | 23 | 57 | 8.5 | 4.5 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 2011 | 13 | 59 | 17 | 76 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| On file | 93 | 40 | 133 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 4 | |
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
2011 LSU 12 games, 34 returns, 421 yards
| Date | Opponent | Result | PR | Yds | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3 | vs. Oregon | W 40–27 | 4 | 26 | – |
| Sep 10 | vs. Northwestern State | W 49–3 | 3 | 3 | – |
| Sep 15 | at Mississippi State | W 19–6 | 4 | −8 | – |
| Sep 24 | at West Virginia | W 47–21 | 3 | 34 | 1 |
| Oct 1 | vs. Kentucky | W 35–7 | 2 | 30 | – |
| Oct 8 | vs. Florida | W 41–11 | 2 | 12 | 1 |
| Oct 15 | at Tennessee | W 38–7 | 3 | 22 | – |
| Nov 12 | vs. Western Kentucky | W 42–9 | 2 | 39 | – |
| Nov 19 | at Ole Miss | W 52–3 | 3 | 28 | – |
| Nov 25 | vs. Arkansas | W 41–17 | 3 | 115 | – |
| Dec 3 | vs. Georgia | W 42–10 | 4 | 119 | – |
| Jan 9 ✦ | vs. Alabama | L 0–21 | 1 | 1 | – |
2010 LSU 2 games, 2 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | PR | Yds | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | vs.West Virginia | W 20–14 | – | – | 1 |
| Jan 7 ✦ | vs. Texas A&M | W 41–24 | – | – | 1 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2013 |
|---|---|
| Height | 5′8¾″ |
| Weight | 186 lb |
| Arm length | 31⅛″ |
| Hand size | 9⅜″ |
| Wingspan | 72¼″W |
| 40-yard dash | 4.50 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.56 sW |
| Vertical jump | 34″ |
| Broad jump | 9′9″ |
| Bench press | 4 reps |
| 3-cone drill | 6.87 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.14 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
12 seasons, 179 games with a stat; latest team: New Orleans Saints.
Pro Bowls: 3 (2015, 2020–21) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 3 (2015, 2019–20)
All-Pro teams: AP first team 2015, 2019–20; AP second team 2019; Pro Football Writers first team 2015, 2020; Sporting News first team 2015, 2020.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Arizona Cardinals | 13 | 68 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | Arizona Cardinals | 12 | 38 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | Arizona Cardinals | 14 | 83 | 1 | 5 |
| 2016 | Arizona Cardinals | 10 | 34 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | Arizona Cardinals | 16 | 75 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | Houston Texans | 16 | 88 | 3 | 2 |
| 2019 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 71 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | Kansas City Chiefs | 15 | 61 | 0 | 6 |
| 2021 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 73 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | New Orleans Saints | 17 | 85 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | New Orleans Saints | 17 | 67 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | New Orleans Saints | 17 | 61 | 0 | 3 |
| NFL career | 179 | 804 | 11 | 36 | |
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. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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