Will Harris with the Washington Commanders, 2025
With the Washington Commanders, 2025. Photo: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive back, Boston College, 2015–⁠18

Will Harris

Number
No. 8
Height
6′2″
Weight
210 lb
Class (2018)
Senior
Hometown
Suwanee, GA
Born
Dec 19, 1995, in Suwanee, Georgia

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Will Harris played defensive back at Boston College (2015–⁠18). The Detroit Lions took Harris in round 3, No. 81 overall in the 2019 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
83
Tackles, 2017 (Boston College, 7–⁠6)
Drafted
No. 81
Round 3, 2019 NFL Draft (Detroit Lions)

Career highs

10tackles, career hightwice; last vs. Central Michigan, 2017

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamTklSoloTFLSacksIntPDHur
2015Boston College––––1––
2016Boston College473410240
2017Boston College83455.51121
2018Boston College734210101
Career2031217.51562

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTkl
20159 of 1212315

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosClassHtWt
2015Boston College8DBFr.
2016Boston College8DBSo.
2017Boston College8DBJr.
2018Boston College8DBSr.6′2″210

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

2018 Boston College 12 games, 73 tackles, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 1vs.MassachusettsW 55–⁠21310000
Sep 8vs.Holy CrossW 62–⁠14100000
Sep 13atWake ForestW 41–⁠34860.5010
Sep 22atPurdueL 13–⁠30650000
Sep 29vs.TempleW 45–⁠35740000
Oct 6atNC StateL 23–⁠28930.5000
Oct 13vs.LouisvilleW 38–⁠20510000
Oct 26vs.MiamiW 27–⁠14960000
Nov 3atVirginia TechW 31–⁠21530000
Nov 10vs.ClemsonL 7–⁠27850000
Nov 17atFlorida StateL 21–⁠22650000
Nov 24vs.SyracuseL 21–⁠42630000
2017 Boston College 13 games, 83 tackles, 1 sack, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 1atNorthern IllinoisW 23–⁠201071000
Sep 9vs.Wake ForestL 10–⁠34952000
Sep 16vs.Notre DameL 20–⁠49840000
Sep 23atClemsonL 7–⁠34630000
Sep 30vs.Central MichiganW 28–⁠81050000
Oct 7vs.Virginia TechL 10–⁠23740000
Oct 14atLouisvilleW 45–⁠42220000
Oct 21atVirginiaW 41–⁠10651111
Oct 27vs.Florida StateW 35–⁠3210001
Nov 11vs.NC StateL 14–⁠17410.5000
Nov 18vs.UConnW 39–⁠16321000
Nov 25atSyracuseW 42–⁠14720000
Dec 27 ✦vs.IowaL 20–⁠27940000
2016 Boston College 13 games, 47 tackles, 2 INT
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 3vs.Georgia TechL 14–⁠17550000
Sep 10atMassachusettsW 26–⁠7410010
Sep 17atVirginia TechL 0–⁠49850000
Sep 24vs.WagnerW 42–⁠10210001
Oct 1vs.BuffaloW 35–⁠3111001
Oct 7vs.ClemsonL 10–⁠56220000
Oct 22vs.SyracuseL 20–⁠28630010
Oct 29atNC StateW 21–⁠14320000
Nov 5vs.LouisvilleL 7–⁠52550000
Nov 11atFlorida StateL 7–⁠45430001
Nov 19vs.UConnW 30–⁠0220000
Nov 26atWake ForestW 17–⁠14430001
Dec 26 ✦vs.MarylandW 36–⁠30110000
2015 Boston College 1 game, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 5vs.MaineW 24–⁠3––––1–

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2019 Senior Bowl (North team, won 34–⁠24).

DrillCombine 2019
Height6′1″
Weight207 lb
Arm length31¼″
Hand size9″
Wingspan74¾″W
40-yard dash4.41 s
10-yard split1.54 sW
Vertical jump36½″
Broad jump10′3″
Bench press20 reps
3-cone drill6.91 s
20-yard shuttle4.12 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

7 seasons, 88 games with a stat; latest team: Washington Commanders.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2019Detroit Lions144010
2020Detroit Lions143300
2021Detroit Lions17880.50
2022Detroit Lions145301
2023Detroit Lions71601
2024New Orleans Saints136801
2025Washington Commanders93810
NFL career883362.53

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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