David Njoku

TE

#85

Experience: 9 years

Height: 6-4

Age: 29

Weight: 246 lbs

College: Miami (Fla.)

2025 SEASON

REC

33
YDS

293
AVG

8.88
TDS

4

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Receiving

YEAR	TEAM	G	REC	YDS	AVG	LNG	TD	1st	1st%	20+	40+
2025	Cleveland Browns	12	33	293	8.9	23	4	11	33.3	2	0
2024	Cleveland Browns	11	64	505	7.9	29	5	23	35.9	4	0
2023	Cleveland Browns	16	81	882	10.9	43	6	35	43.2	12	2
2022	Cleveland Browns	14	58	628	10.8	38	4	36	62.1	8	0
2021	Cleveland Browns	16	36	475	13.2	71	4	17	47.2	8	2
2020	Cleveland Browns	13	19	213	11.2	28	2	13	68.4	4	0
2019	Cleveland Browns	4	5	41	8.2	18	1	3	60	0	0
2018	Cleveland Browns	16	56	639	11.4	66	4	27	48.2	9	2
2017	Cleveland Browns	16	32	386	12.1	34	4	17	53.1	8	0
TOTAL		118	384	4062	10.6	71	34	182	47.4	55	6

Rushing

YEAR	TEAM	G	ATT	YDS	AVG	LNG	TD	1st	1st%	20+	40+	FUM
2025	Cleveland Browns	12
2024	Cleveland Browns	11
2023	Cleveland Browns	16
2022	Cleveland Browns	14	2	-8	-4	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	Cleveland Browns	16	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	Cleveland Browns	13
2019	Cleveland Browns	4
2018	Cleveland Browns	16
2017	Cleveland Browns	16	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL		118	4	-6	-1.5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Fumbles

YEAR	TEAM	G	FUM	LOST	FF	OWN FR	OPP FR	TD
2025	Cleveland Browns	12
2024	Cleveland Browns	11			0
2023	Cleveland Browns	16	2	2	0
2022	Cleveland Browns	14	1	1
2021	Cleveland Browns	16	0	0	0	1
2020	Cleveland Browns	13
2019	Cleveland Browns	4			0
2018	Cleveland Browns	16			0
2017	Cleveland Browns	16			0
TOTAL		118	3	3	0	1	0	0

Defense

YEAR	TEAM	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK	SFTY	PDEF	INT	TDS	YDS	AVG	LNG
2025	Cleveland Browns	12
2024	Cleveland Browns	11	4	4	0	0	0	0
2023	Cleveland Browns	16	2	2	0	0	0	0
2022	Cleveland Browns	14
2021	Cleveland Browns	16	2	2	0	0	0	0
2020	Cleveland Browns	13
2019	Cleveland Browns	4	1	1	0	0	0	0
2018	Cleveland Browns	16	2	2	0	0	0	0
2017	Cleveland Browns	16	1	1	0	0	0	0
TOTAL		118	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Biography

Career Transactions

Selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round (29th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft

Awards/Honors

· 2023 Pro Bowl selection.

Career Transactions

Selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round (29th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft.

Awards/Honors

· 2023 Pro Bowl selection.

Key Notes

· Enters the 2024 season second in Browns history with 351 career receptions, trailing only Hall of Famer Ozzie Newsome. Also ranks seventh in team history for career touchdown receptions (30) and 12th in career receiving yards (3,769).

· Set career highs for receptions (81), receiving yards (882) and receiving touchdowns (six) in 2023. Ranked among the leaders for all NFL tight ends in receiving touchdowns (second), receptions (tied for fifth) and receiving yards (sixth).

· Registered first career multiple-touchdown game with two touchdown receptions vs. Jacksonville on Dec. 10, 2023.

· Helped the Browns compile 2,490 rushing yards in 2022, the third-highest total in team history and most since 1963 (2,639).

· Led the Browns in receiving touchdowns in 2021.

· Along with TEs Harrison Bryant and Austin Hooper, helped the Browns be the only team in 2021 to have three TEs with at least three TDs.

· Recorded a career-high 149 receiving yards, including a career-long 71-yard touchdown at the Chargers on Oct. 10, 2021. The 71-yard touchdown catch was the longest by an NFL TE since 2019.

· Scored first career touchdown on 23-yard pass from Kevin Hogan at Baltimore on Sept. 17, 2017.

· Also competed in indoor and outdoor track for the Hurricanes from 2015-16.

Personal

· Last name pronounced nuh-JOE-koo.

· Native of Cedar Grove, N.J. and attended Cedar Grove High School.

· High school national champion in the high jump during his senior year, setting a career-best height of 7 feet, 1 inch.

· Family moved to the United States from Nigeria where his father was a chief, who then bestowed upon him the title Chief David Njoku. Received his chieftaincy title in Nigeria's Igboland back in March 2022.

· One of nine siblings (four boys and five girls).

Beyond Football

· Donates thousands of dollars annually to supply food, water and essentials during his visits to Nigeria as part an effort to give back to where his family hails from.

· Launched the David Njoku Foundation 2020. The foundation serves to impact the community in providing guidance, food supply and youth empowerment. Njoku represented the foundation during My Cause, My Cleats in 2022.

· One of the most active Browns in the community, volunteering for numerous youth football camps, school visits, military appreciation events, hospital visits and the American Burn Association following his accident in October 2023.

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