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Devon Witherspoon

Cornerback, Seattle Seahawks · #21.

Player facts

Team: Seattle Seahawks
Position: Cornerback
Number: 21
Born: Dec 11, 2000 (age 25)
Birthplace: Pensacola, FL, USA
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 185 lbs
College: Illinois
Experience: 4 seasons
Status: Active

Stats

2026 Defense

	TOT	SOLO	AST	SACK	FF	FR	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	PD	STF	STFYDS
Regular Season	37	22	15	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	3	3.5	5
Last 5 Games	32	22	10	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	3	3.5	0
Career	286	192	94	4.5	2	1	2	100	50.0	1	97	35	18.5	40

Recent games

			Tackles				Fumbles		Interceptions
Date	Opponent	Result	TOT	SOLO	AST	SACK	FF	FR	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	PD	KB
Thu, Oct 15	@ DEN	L 17-14 OT	5	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	2	0
Sun, Oct 11	vs SF	L 32-29	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	1	0
Sun, Oct 4	vs LAC	W 30-23	9	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Sep 27	@ WSH	L 33-31	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Sep 20	@ ARI	W 31-7	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0

Last 5 games. Click a game for its box score.

About

Devon Marquis Witherspoon (born December 11, 2000) is an American professional football cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini, where he was named the Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year in 2022. Witherspoon was selected by the Seahawks fifth overall in the 2023 NFL draft, and won Super Bowl LX in his third season with the team.

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Background

Early life

Devon Witherspoon attended Pine Forest High School in Pensacola, Florida. Initially concentrating his athletic abilities on basketball, Witherspoon did not begin playing football until his junior year of high school. As a senior in 2018, he was the Pensacola News Journal Defensive Player of the Year after recording 74 tackles, seven interceptions and two touchdowns. He committed to play college football at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

College career

Witherspoon was the only true freshman to start on defense for the Illinois Fighting Illini in 2019. He wound up playing in every game, making 33 tackles. As a sophomore in 2020, he recorded 33 tackles and two interceptions.

He played and started 10 games his junior year in 2021, finishing with 52 tackles and one sack. Witherspoon returned to Illinois his senior year in 2022, beginning the year as the Big Ten Conference leader in passes defended.

A supremely confident player, Witherspoon was regarded as the leading trash-talker on the Fighting Illini team during his tenure. When asked about the biggest talkers on the squad, offensive teammate Isaiah Williams joked that "Spoon is number one. Spoon is at one and then we go to like five."

"I gotta talk, it's just me. I can't live without doing it," Witherspoon acknowledged.

During his senior year Witherspoon was named one of twelve finalists for the Jim Thorpe Award, presented to the nation's top defensive back. He was selected as the 2022 Tatum–Woodson Defensive Back of the Year, an award given to the top defensive back in the Big Ten Conference, and was named a consensus All-American at the season's conclusion.

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