Ben Banogu: DE · TCU · #15.
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Ben Banogu
Wins the corner before the tackle can set. Two seasons in the TCU defensive front to date. That makes two straight seasons on the honors list: All-Big 12 again in 2018. A game that shows it: 4 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against West Virginia — Week 11, 2018.
Play style
Bends the edge and wins with first-step quickness. Lighter frame, relentless motor.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
52 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 17 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.
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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
2018 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 55-7vs Southern | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-12@ SMU | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-40vs No. 4 Ohio State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 16-31@ Texas | 3 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-14vs Iowa State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-17vs Texas Tech | 8 | 6 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 8 | L 27-52vs No. 9 Oklahoma | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 26-27@ Kansas | 8 | 7 | 4.5 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 11 | L 10-47@ No. 7 West Virginia | 4 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 16-9@ Baylor | 10 | 9 | 4.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 31-24vs Oklahoma State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 10-7vs California | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 52 | 41 | 17.0 | 8.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
16%8 sacksTFL rate
33%17 TFLHurry rate
15%8 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
52%8 of 16 pressures52 tackles · 17 for loss · 8.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Gary Patterson, all run-leaning offenses — 18-9 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 5.4 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.6 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Gary Patterson
Pass share
45.9%
408 pass / 480 run
Plays / game
68.3
13 games
Team sack rate
3.5%
428 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Two seasons at TCU, 17 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2017) — drafted at #49 overall by the Indianapolis Colts.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2018)
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Gary Patterson.
Next stop · NFL
Indianapolis ColtsEntering 8th NFL season
Indianapolis ColtsEntering 8th NFL season
