Baltimore Ravens’ Jadeveon Clowney’s Challenger SRT Demon Looks Like a QB-Seeking Missile

Production on the Demon-spec Challenger Hellcat commenced in the summer of 2017, with the first customer cars hitting the drag strips a few months later. Power came from a 6.2-liter V8 with a 2.7-liter supercharger, pushing out 808 horsepower on 91 octane gasoline, and 840 horsepower on 100 octane fuel.

These also weighed less than a regular Hellcat by about 220 lbs (100 kg), and with a power-to-weight ratio of 418 hp per ton, plus the drag radials, you could cover a quarter mile in just 9.65 seconds at 140 mph, while 0-60 mph took just 2.3 seconds – or 2 seconds flat with a rollout.

Fun fact, the SRT Demon became the first production car to perform a wheelie upon launch, generating 1.8 G’s as it rocketed forward.

As you can imagine, plenty of celebrities wanted to get their hands on one, seeing how only 3,300 units would be produced. It might not have seemed like it because of the excessive media coverage, but these were relatively rare.

Among the many celebrities that either owned or still currently own an SRT Demon, we can now count Jadeveon Clowney, a linebacker who currently plays football for the Baltimore Ravens. Those who don’t follow the NFL too closely probably know Clowney from his time with the Houston Texans, with which he played from 2014 up until 2018.

He then spent a year with the Seattle Seahawks in 2019, followed by another season with the Tennessee Titans, two years with the Cleveland Browns, and now he’s finally landed in Baltimore where he’s putting up semi-decent numbers.

Speaking of decent numbers, here are some more... pertaining to the Challenger SRT Demon: 4,255 lbs curb weight, 0-100 mph in 5.1 sec, and a 168-mph factory limited top speed. Of course, using the control module from the so-called ‘Demon Crate’ and a set of high-speed tires, you could easily take this baby to over 200 mph.

Anyway, Clowney’s Demon is only mildly tuned, with the folks over at Dreamworks Motorsports giving it a blacked-out appearance with custom painted emblems, a new sound system featuring an LED custom enclosure, and tinted windows. You could say that it’s still mostly stock, which is good if you care about resale value.

This Demon actually reminds us a little bit of Lonzo Ball’s car, which also features a blacked-out aesthetic, except that Ball’s ride comes with large 22-inch black Forgiato wheels and a VantaBlack finish.