DeLawrence Grant

DeLawrence Grant

No. 95, 99, 59
Position:	Defensive end/Linebacker
Personal information
Born:	(1979-11-18) November 18, 1979 Compton, California, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	280 lb (127 kg)
Career information
College:	Oregon State
NFL draft:	2001 / Round: 3 / Pick: 27
Career history
Oakland Raiders (2001–2005)
Career NFL statistics
Tackles: 67 Sacks: 7.0 Passes defended: 1
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

DeLawrence Grant, Jr. (born November 18, 1979) is a former American football linebacker who played college football at Oregon State and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft.

College career

DeLawrence Grant was a defensive end for Oregon State University.

Professional career

Grant was selected by the Raiders in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft and has played five years for them. Grant began his career as a defensive end before being converted to linebacker.

He played sparingly as a rookie in 2001, before starting at left end for most of the Raiders' Super Bowl season in 2002. That season Delawrence was ranked top 10.

That offseason, he was released by the Raiders for salary cap reasons, but was later re-signed. Due to an injury, he played only half the season in 2005, missing most of the middle portion.

One of the stranger aspects of Grant's star-crossed Raiders career is his continual switch in uniform number. He started out as No. 95, then switched to No. 99 when a more experienced player, Sam Adams, was signed and was issued the jersey. He then switched to No. 59 (the reverse of his prior No. 95) after moving to linebacker, since numbers in the 50s were thought of as linebackers' numbers.

NFL career statistics

Legend
Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	Games		Tackles					Interceptions					Fumbles
		GP	GS	Cmb	Solo	Ast	Sck	TFL	Int	Yds	TD	Lng	PD	FF	FR	Yds	TD
2001	OAK	2	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2002	OAK	16	14	26	21	5	3.0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2003	OAK	13	4	18	8	10	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004	OAK	9	9	20	14	6	2.0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
2005	OAK	9	0	3	2	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		49	27	67	45	22	7.0	11	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0

Playoffs

Year	Team	Games		Tackles					Interceptions					Fumbles
		GP	GS	Cmb	Solo	Ast	Sck	TFL	Int	Yds	TD	Lng	PD	FF	FR	Yds	TD
2002	OAK	3	3	4	2	2	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		3	3	4	2	2	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

External links

• Database Football: DeLawrence Grant stats
• NFL.com bio