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Drue Tranquill

Linebacker, Kansas City Chiefs · #23.

Player facts

Team: Kansas City Chiefs
Position: Linebacker
Number: 23
Born: Aug 15, 1995 (age 31)
Birthplace: Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 234 lbs
College: Notre Dame
Experience: 8 seasons
Status: Active

Stats

2026 Defense

	TOT	SOLO	AST	SACK	FF	FR	YDS	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	PD	STF	STFYDS	KB
Regular Season	29	14	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	2	6.5	11	0
Career	603	379	224	15	4	4	3	1	20	20.0	0	1	12	52	73	0

Recent games

			Tackles				Fumbles		Interceptions
Date	Opponent	Result	TOT	SOLO	AST	SACK	FF	FR	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	PD	KB
Sun, Oct 4	@ LV	W 30-27	7	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	1	0
Sun, Sep 27	@ MIA	W 24-10	7	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Sep 20	vs IND	W 33-30 OT	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	1	0
Mon, Sep 14	vs DEN	W 31-10	7	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0

Last 4 games. Click a game for its box score.

About

Anthony Drue Tranquill (born August 15, 1995) is an American professional football linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

From Wikipedia’s article on Drue Tranquill, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.¹

Background

Early life

Tranquill attended Carroll High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As a senior in 2013, Tranquill made 75 tackles, including 16 tackles-for-loss, to go with four sacks and an interception as a linebacker. He added 1,420 yards and 28 touchdowns on 114 carries on the ground as a running back, along with 16 receptions for 348 yards and five touchdowns. Tranquill was a four-star recruit coming out of high school, and received offers from several major programs, mostly in the Big Ten Conference. He verbally committed to Purdue University to play college football, but later decommitted and ultimately signed with the University of Notre Dame. Tranquill's younger brother, Justin, played safety for Western Michigan University.

College career

Initially committed to Purdue University, Tranquill decommitted when he received an offer from Notre Dame.

As a true freshman at Notre Dame in 2014, Tranquill played in 11 games with three starts and recorded 33 tackles, a tackle for loss, an interception, a fumble recovery, and a blocked punt. He played in three games as a sophomore in 2015, with one start, but was lost for the season due to a torn ACL suffered while celebrating after breaking up a pass against Georgia Tech on September 19. He collected a medical redshirt for the 2015 season, and was able to play as a graduate student during the 2018 season as a result. As a junior in 2016, Tranquill started all 12 games for the Irish, tallying 79 tackles, two tackles for loss, and an interception. During Tranquill's senior year in 2017, he finished the year with 85 tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, three fumble recoveries, four passes defended, one interception and one forced fumble while starting all 13 games. At the end of the 2017 season, Tranquill announced that he would return for a 5th year as a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering for the 2018–19 season.