Robert Thomas - College Football

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Defensive Tackle

Height: 6-foot-3
Weight: 318 pounds
Class Year: RS SR
Hometown: Muskogee, OK
Prior School: Coffeyville (Kan.) CC

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1. NT - R. Thomas | 6-3, 318, .
2. NT - D. Philon | 6-3, 284, .

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Class: 2011 (Junior College)
Rating/Rankings: | 5.6

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ROBERT THOMAS STATS	Defense
Statistics	Tack	Ast	Total	Sack	Int	Yds	IntTD	PassDef	FumRec
2012	6	12	18	2.5	0	0	0	0	0
2011	7	16	23	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
Career	13	28	41	3.5	0	0	0	0	0

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BIO NOTES

2013 (Sophomore): Thomas played in 12 games, missing only the 38-14 win vs. No. 15 Auburn, and made five starts while recording 23 tackles, 2.5 for loss with 1.0 sack, and two quarterback hurries. He recorded a career-high six tackles, including 0.5 for loss, at No. 3 Alabama. He made two tackles, 0.5 for loss, in each of his first two games as a Razorback, the 51-7 season-opening win vs. Missouri State and the 52-3 victory vs. New Mexico. He recorded one tackle and a career-high two quarterback hurries the next week in a 38-28 win vs. Troy. He made one tackle in the come-from-behind 42-38 victory vs. No. 14 Texas A&M and returned to make one stop in the 29-24 win at Ole Miss. He collected two tackles, 1.0 for loss with 1.0 sack, in a 31-28 victory at Vanderbilt. He made three tackles in the 49-7 win vs. Tennessee and one tackle the next week in a 44-17 victory vs. Mississippi State. At No. 1 LSU, he registered three tackles. He wrapped up the season with one tackle in the 29-16 AT&T Cotton Bowl defeat of No. 11 Kansas State.

Personal: Born Feb. 18, 1991, he is the son of Roslynn Thomas and the grandson of Robert and Sonya Thomas.

Before Arkansas: Thomas joined the Razorbacks after a successful season at Coffeyville Community College in 2010. Thomas made 48 tackles, including 15 for loss, 4.5 sacks and two pass deflections for junior college coach Darian Dulin. During his senior year at Muskogee High School, Thomas had 89 tackles, 68 solo, 15 tackles for loss, five sacks, four quarterback hurries, two forced fumbles, two recovered fumbles and two blocked field goals. On offense, he carried the ball six times for 16 yards and one touchdown. He was listed as the No. 71 defensive tackle in the nation and the No. 19 prospect in Oklahoma by Rivals.com. He was named the Muskogee Phoenix District (6A-3) Defensive Player of the Year and he was also selected by the 6A-3 coaches as the lineman of the year. His high school coach was Matt Hennesy. He was also recruited by Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas and Kansas State. He enrolled at Arkansas in the spring of 2011.