Senior linebacker for Vanderbilt. 2020: 21 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 3 sacks.
6′3″ · 246 lb · Philadelphia, PA
The story
4 linebacker for Vanderbilt. 2020: 21 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 3 sacks.
Recruiting
WDE recruit
No. 2613 nationally · Signed with Vanderbilt
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonAndre Mintze
2 stars out of high school, four seasons of real snaps at Vanderbilt since. One game to point at: 7 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Florida — Week 12, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Vanderbilt, 75 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Derek Mason.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Derek Mason — 14-32 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: sacks (90th percentile). Strength: tackles for loss (85th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Clark Lea
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Vanderbilt | 21 | 11 | 5.5 | 3.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Vanderbilt | 39 | 22 | 6.5 | 4.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Vanderbilt | 10 | 6 | 3.5 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Vanderbilt | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 75 | 43 | 16.5 | 9.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | L 12-17@ Texas A&M | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 7-41vs LSU | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-41vs South Carolina | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 21-54vs Ole Miss | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-24@ Mississippi State | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 35-38@ Kentucky | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 17-38vs Florida | 7 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 0-41@ Missouri | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 15 | L 17-42vs Tennessee | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 21 | 11 | 5.5 | 3.0 | — | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
21 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 5.5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.