Andrew Brown: DE · Virginia · #9.
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Andrew Brown
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Second year in the same defensive front at Virginia. On tape: 6 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Indiana, Week 2, 2017.
Play style
No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
46 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 10.5 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
The Daily Progress Oct 16Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 17-34vs Indiana | 6 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-18vs UConn | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 42-23@ Boise State | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 28-21vs Duke | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 20-14@ North Carolina | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-41vs Boston College | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-31@ Pittsburgh | 5 | 5 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 10 | W 40-36vs Georgia Tech | 8 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 11 | L 21-38@ Louisville | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 28-44@ No. 2 Miami | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 0-10vs No. 24 Virginia Tech | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 7-49@ Navy | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 46 | 18 | 10.5 | 3.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
8%4 sacksTFL rate
23%10 TFLHurry rate
7%3 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
54%4 of 6 pressures46 tackles · 10.5 for loss · 3.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Bronco Mendenhall, all pass-leaning offenses — 8-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bronco Mendenhall
Pass share
57.8%
518 pass / 378 run
Plays / game
68.9
13 games
Team sack rate
5.6%
551 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
46 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Virginia, 10 sacks — drafted at #158 overall by the Cincinnati Bengals.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mike London → Bronco Mendenhall. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Cincinnati BengalsEntering 9th NFL season
Cincinnati BengalsEntering 9th NFL season
