PRO: Sixth-year LB has played in 71 games with 45 starts … Career totals include 272 tackles (213 solo), seven sacks, four INTs, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovery … Added 16 passes defensed and 30 special teams tackles … Scored two career TDs on a blocked punt return and INT return … Spent four seasons (2008-11) with Tampa Bay after being selected in sixth round of 2008 draft … Played under Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley as a rookie with Buccaneers … Spent 2012 season with Chicago and appeared in 15 games with three starts … Native of Greenville, Florida was a three-year letterman at Florida State …
2012: Played in 15 games with three starts … Totaled 24 tackles (13 solo) and one pass defensed … Added five special teams tackles … Had five tackles on 10/1 at DAL … Posted three special teams tackles on 11/19 at SF … Made first start of the season on 12/9 at MIN and collected a season-high eight tackles … Was inactive on 12/16 vs. GB with a knee injury … Started at SLB on 12/23 at ARI and made five tackles … Started in season-finale on 12/30 at DETand totaled two tackles …
2011: Started 13 of 16 games at WLB for Tampa Bay … Ranked third on the team with 63 tackles and seven tackles for loss … Added one INT, two forced fumbles and two passes defensed …
2010: Started all 16 games at WLB and ranked second on the team with 104 tackles … Posted a career-high four sacks and led team with a career-high 11.5 tackles for loss … His 11.5 tackles for loss ranked second in the NFL … Added six passes defensed … Had a 41-yard INT return for a TD on 10/31 at ARI … Registered first sack of the season on 12/12 at WAS … Tallied a career-high two sacks on 12/26 vs. SEA while leading team with 11 tackles …
2009: Started 13 of 15 games … Posted 98 tackles and a team-high 11 tackles for loss … Added three sacks, two INTs, six passes defensed, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery … Only Buccaneer to record a statistic in every defensive category … Made 10 tackles on 9/20 at BUF and 12/27 at NO … Posted a season-high 12 tackles in season-finale on 1/3 vs. ATL including one sack …
2008: Saw action in nine games as a rookie … Totaled five tackles, one pass defensed and six special teams tackles … Blocked a punt and returned it 22 yards for a TD on 10/12 vs. CAR … Suffered a knee injury in on 11/16 vs. MIN and was placed on injured reserve on Nov. 19
COLLEGE: Three-year letterman … Appeared in 35 games with 21 starts … Left school following his junior season … Totaled 156 tackles, eight sacks, 29.5 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and seven passes defensed … Earned All-ACC second-team honors as a junior.
PERSONAL: Attended Madison County (Greenville, Fla.) High School … Rated the 3rd-best LB in the country according to Tom Lemming of ESPN.com … Added second-team All-USA Today All-American honors and was a first-team choice by Parade Magazine … Full name: Eugene Antonio Hayes.
