David Njoku

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

• Among all Browns TEs, ranks second in career touchdowns (25) and third in receiving yards (3,130) and receptions (281).
• 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.
• Recorded second career 100-yard game after hauling in a career-high 10 receptions for 104 yards and a touchdown vs. Chicago on Dec. 17, 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.
• Tied for second on team with four receiving touchdowns in 2018.
• 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.