Anwar Sparrow is a linebacker who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Syracuse.
Sparrow carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Played for three head coaches at Syracuse: Dino Babers, Nunzio Campanile and Fran Brown. On tape: 5 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against North Carolina, Week 10, 2025.
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
31 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 4.5 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.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 26-45vs No. 24 Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 27-20vs UConn | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 66-24vs Colgate | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-21@ Clemson | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 3-38vs Duke | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 6 | L 18-31@ SMU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 16-41@ No. 7 Georgia Tech | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-27vs North Carolina | 5 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-38@ No. 18 Miami | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 7-70@ No. 9 Notre Dame | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 12-34vs Boston College | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 31 | 22 | 4.5 | 1.0 | — | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
31tackles this seasonTFL rate
15%4 TFLSack rate
3%1 sackPD rate
6%2 pass breakups31 tackles · 4.5 for loss · 1 sack.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Fran Brown
Pass share
48.6%
408 pass / 432 run
Plays / game
70.0
12 games
Team sack rate
7.8%
447 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2025
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
Surprisingly productive for a linebacker with no award recognition yet — top-9% passes broken up, top-3% solo-tackle rate.2025 profile
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #398 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-ACC
Based on 2025: #56 of 74 ACC LBs
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 15% of returning players who ranked #21 or lower at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 13–17%).
One of 52 players who were elite at two different things in 2025. See the others ›
The No. 1,844 recruit in the country is starting at linebacker in the ACC as a senior.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2020–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dino Babers → Fran Brown. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
