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Player file

Benton Whitley

EDG Edge Defender · Holy Cross · #61

6' 4" · 260 lbs · ESPN roster listing (measurement date not published)

age 27 · born 1999-02-12 · corroborated by nflverse players.csv · as of 2026-09-20

ESPN team roster · 2026-08-18Over The Cap · 2026-08-15

CLE · Current membership unresolved

Formal report: Practice: not reported · Game designation not reported. Check next report · Plan coverage

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lifecycle: veteran — 1 NFL regular-season line(s) 2023–2023 on the seasonal well (nflverse stats_player_reg) · card built 2026-09-20

Searched — none · no 2026 regular-season stat line on nflverse for player_id=00-0037638 (seasonal record, recorded search) ⇒ no 2026 within-position rank exists (asOf 2026-09-20)

Inspectno 2026 regular-season stat line on nflverse for player_id=00-0037638 (seasonal well, recorded search) ⇒ no 2026 within-position rank exists
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Last season line

Not yet available · No 2026 season total is reported for this player in the source snapshot checked 2026-09-20T14:36:04.573Z. Missing statistics are not zero. Earlier seasons remain in NFL by year. (asOf 2026-09-20T14:36:04.573Z)

Contract

Not sourced yet · term is not on the OTC player page (asOf 2026-08-15)

Season stats

Not yet available · No 2026 season total is reported for this player in the source snapshot checked 2026-09-20T14:36:04.573Z. Missing statistics are not zero. Earlier seasons remain in NFL by year. (asOf 2026-09-20T14:36:04.573Z)

Contract
  • Signed through

    Not sourced yet · signed through is not on a provisioned source

  • APY$1,145,000Over The Cap · 2026-08-15
  • Cap hit

    Not sourced yet · OTC CLE y2026 Active/IR table had no Cap Number matching this official-chart name.

  • Free agency2027 · RFAOver The Cap · 2026-08-15
Over The Cap · 2026-08-15

Not sourced yet · term / APY / current cap number only; guarantees, bonuses, options and exit consequences are not on a provisioned source (unknown)

NFL by year
  1. 2023 · NYG · DE · 2 counting-stat game rows; total appearances unresolved0 solo tkl · 0 ast · 0 sk · 0 INT · 1 PD · 0 FF
nflverse stats_player_reg 1999–2026 · 2026-09-20

Stack-up lives on leaders. Not a rank invented on this file.

Official games

Not sourced yet · snaps are not printed in the NFL Game Summary and no snap-count source is provisioned — participation above is the book's own lists

NFL Game Summary · 2026-08-15as of 2026-08-22
College by year
  1. 2021 · Holy Cross · defensive5 tkl · 0 sackCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
  2. 2019 · Holy Cross · defensive7 tkl · 0 sackCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
  3. 2018 · Holy Cross · defensive1 tkl · 0 sackCollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
CollegeFootballData player season stats · 2026-08-14
Draft

Searched — none · searched nflverse draft_picks 1980–2026 (12927 rows) by gsis_id 00-0037638: no pick row — undrafted (the ledger carries every selection since 1980) (asOf 2026-09-20)

Combine / pro day

Searched — none · searched nflverse combine 2000–2026 (8968 rows) by pfr_id WhitBe00: no recorded combine row in the covered dataset; invitation status is not established (a pro-day-only workout is not in this table and stays unknown) (asOf 2026-09-20)

Not sourced yet · pro day: pro-day results are not on any provisioned source

Injuries
  • 2026-01-08 → 2026-03-11 · TB · FUTURES · ended: league-year-lapseSigned the following players to reserve/futures contracts for 2026: S Marcus Banks, T Marshall Foerner, WR Garrett Greene, WR Dennis Houston, DL Nash Hutmacher, LB Nick Jackson, DL Jayson Jones, OLB Mohamed Kamara, C BenTB transactions (club-official) · 2026-09-20
TB transactions (club-official) · 2026-09-20as of 2026-09-19

derived from filings in official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing) through the designation machine (scripts/lib/designation.mjs — one truth with reserve-status and club-state); pre-window history is not on a provisioned source and stays unknown

Suspensions / discipline

Not sourced yet · no discipline records on file · search bound: recorded search of official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing) for /\bsuspend|reserve\s*\/\s*suspended|commissioner(?:'s)?\s+exempt|exempt\s*\/\s*commissioner/i: 5 filings. The league discipline ledger is not a provisioned source, so absence here is a bounded search, not a true negative. (asOf 2026-09-20)

Transactions
  • 2026-08-26 · CLEwaived DE Benton Whitley
  • 2026-06-04 · CLESigned DE Benton Whitley
  • 2026-05-11 · TBWaived LS Wesley Brown, WR Noah Short, OLB Benton Whitley and RB Owen Wright.
  • 2026-02-09 · TBActivated S Marcus Banks, T Marshall Foerner, WR Garrett Greene, WR Dennis Houston, DL Nash Hutmacher, LB Nick Jackson, DL Jayson Jones, OLB Mohamed Kamara, G Ben Scott, OLB Benton Whitley, RB Michael Wiley, CB Damarion
  • 2026-01-08 · TBSigned the following players to reserve/futures contracts for 2026: S Marcus Banks, T Marshall Foerner, WR Garrett Greene, WR Dennis Houston, DL Nash Hutmacher, LB Nick Jackson, DL Jayson Jones, OLB Mohamed Kamara, C Ben
TB transactions (club-official) · 2026-09-20as of 2026-09-19

window 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19

filings in official transaction feeds on disk 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19 (32 clubs: 31 club-published and 1 from the nfl.com league ledger as the approved equivalent (DAL); 1966 rows; no club feed missing); pre-window movement is not on a provisioned source

Awards

Source not provisioned · nflverse draft_picks 1980–2026 carries drafted players only; no pick row for gsis_id 00-0037638 (undrafted or pre-1980). Honors for undrafted players are not on a provisioned source — a bounded search, not a true negative Next: connect a source that covers this field. (asOf 2026-09-20)

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