| Bryant McNeal |
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 | Hometown:
Swansea, SC
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| High School:
Swansea
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| Position:
DE
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| Experience:
4VL
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Overview Led Clemson in sacks (9), tackles for loss (14) and tackles by a front-four lineman (67) in 2002…had nine sacks to rank third in the ACC…second-team All-ACC according to the ACC Sportswriters Association… finished with 22 career sacks, trailing only Michael Dean Perry, William Perry, Adrian Dingle, and Keith Adams and tied with Brentson Buckner…all four ahead of him play or played in the NFL…had one more than Pro Bowl player Chester McGlockton…had 35 career tackles for loss, first among active Clemson players…ranked 9th in the ACC in tackles for loss with 14 …showed improvement every year he was at Clemson, he went from 15 to 23 to 54 to 67 tackles as a senior…never missed a game, he played 49 in a row and joined teammate and classmates Eric Meekins and J.J. McKelvey in the Clemson record books when they played in their 49th game in the Tangerine Bowl against Texas Tech… started each of the last 25 Clemson games and had at last one tackle in 24 in a row…had solid, consistent senior season, he has had at least one sack in each of the last four games, including the Tangerine Bowl…had a streak of four straight games with a sack in games 3-6…had only two-sack game of the year against Ball State…had a three-sack game in his junior year against Duke to tie the Clemson record…had a season high 10 tackles at Florida State, he also had two tackles for loss in that game…started the year off with a big play, a 55-yard fumble return for a touchdown at Georgia, the first touchdown for McNeal since little league…had seven tackles in the win over South Carolina, two were tackles for loss…in fact, had five games in 2002 with two tackles for loss…had at least one quarterback pressure in nine straight games between the second and 10th games of the season…started every game in 2002 and played at least 32 snaps in every game, the fewest he played was the South Carolina game when the Gamecocks ran just 51 plays…had at least five tackles in each of the last four regular season games and in nine of the 13…comes from a large family that featured basketball players, not football players…has two sisters who played high school basketball… reminds many of former Clemson defensive end Lorenzo Bromell, now with the Miami Dolphins...wears the same number...runs the 40 in 4.63 and has a 37-inch vertical jump…
Prior to 2002 Starter in all 12 games at defensive end, he averaged 57 snaps per game…among the conference leaders in sacks with eight for 51 yards, he was sixth in the league...finished the year strong with three-sack performance against Duke… team leader in tackles for loss with 12, he was team leader in sacks with eight…also team leader in quarterback pressures with 18…led the squad in caused fumbles with four … had his only takeaway against Wofford when he recovered a fumble…eighth on the team in tackles with 54…had five tackles, including a tackle for loss in the Humanitarian Bowl…had great game in the win at Wake Forest, he had career high 11 tackles… total included a 17-yard sack and a caused fumble… had two sack performance in win over Wofford, he had four tackles for loss in that game, most by a Tiger in two years… averaged 30 plays per game in 2000...had his only start of 2000 against Maryland when he was in for an injured Terry Bryant...had a season high five tackles, including a sack in his 49 snaps in that game...had two sacks for the year, he had one the previous week against NC State...had at least one tackle in every game with the exception of the Gator Bowl vs. Virginia Tech.. had six tackles for loss to rank among the team leaders in 1999, he averaged 20 plays a game...had five tackles for loss over the last five games of the 1999 season...had three tackles, including two tackles for loss at South Carolina...played 19 snaps in the Peach Bowl against Mississippi State and had one tackle...played in North/South Carolina at Myrtle Beach his senior year...born 7-13-79...majoring in PRTM, he is expected to graduate in May of 2003.
McNeal Career Stats |
| Year |
GP-GS |
PL |
Hit |
Ast |
Tot |
TFL |
Sacks |
QP |
CF-RF |
| 1999 |
12-0 |
255 |
9 |
6 |
15 |
6-40 |
3-27 |
8 |
0-0 |
| 2000 |
12-1 |
348 |
10 |
13 |
23 |
3-14 |
2-13 |
6 |
1-0 |
| 2001 |
12-12 |
679 |
30 |
24 |
54 |
12-61 |
8-51 |
18 |
4-1 |
| 2002 |
13-13 |
663 |
42 |
25 |
67 |
14-73 |
9-63 |
16 |
0-1 |
| Totals |
49-26 |
1945 |
91 |
68 |
159 |
35-188 |
22-154 |
48 |
5-2 |
