#57

Caleb Brantley

Former defensive lineman at Florida. 2016: 2.5 sacks, 9.5 tackles for loss, 31 tackles.

DL · Florida · #57

6′2″ · Crescent City, FL

Cleveland — drafted 2017, Rd 6, Pick 1, #185 overall

Recruiting

4★

DT recruit

No. 114 nationally · Signed with Florida

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former defensive lineman at Florida. 2016: 2.5 sacks, 9.5 tackles for loss, 31 tackles.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Florida in 2013.
Drafted round 6 by the Cleveland in 2017.

His career, year by year

How it ended

One season at Florida, 2 sacks — drafted at #185 overall by Cleveland.

His career

2013

Signed with Florida4-star out of Crescent City

2017

Drafted by Clevelandround 6, pick 185

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#114 national

CFB

College

Florida

2016

NFL

NFL Draft

R6 · #185

Cleveland · 2017

Where He Ended Up · NFL

ClevelandEntering 10th NFL season

#185Rd 6 · Pick 1

ClevelandEntering 10th NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2016 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2016Florida9-4HC: Jim McElwain · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles for loss (93rd percentile). Strength: qb hurries (88th percentile). Concern: passes defended (19th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Tackles for loss#188 / 2668 · 93rd pct

9.5

QB hurries#245 / 2668 · 88th pct

Sacks#406 / 2668 · 83rd pct

2.5

Tackles#1325 / 2668 · 50th pct

Solo tackles#1457 / 2668 · 44th pct

Passes defended#1657 / 2668 · 19th pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2016 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home4g	1.5	0.4	0.2	0.0
Road7g	3.6	1.1	0.2	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	2.0	0.5	0.3	0.0
Weeks 8+5g	3.8	1.3	0.1	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jon Sumrall

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2016

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career stats

Season	Team
2016	Florida	31	16	9.5	2.5	--	--	--
Career		31	16	9.5	2.5	--	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 12 · 2016

W 16–10

at LSU

3 TFL · 5 TOT · 3 SOLO

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 6 on the road.

With J. Townsend — 52 AVG · 59 LONG · 5 NO · T. Cleveland — 3 rec · 124 yds · 1 TD

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week