#94

Ben Florentine

Senior nose tackle for Wyoming. 2025: 4 sacks, 6 tackles for loss, 33 tackles.

NT · Wyoming · Sr. · #94

6′1″ · 280 lb · Anaheim, CA

CFB Index 89 · #13 of 330 interior linemenLow confidenceAll-ConferenceReturning to Wyoming for 2026

How he plays

Disrupts the pocket from the interior.

Sacks: 93rd percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

sacks · 2025

6 TFL · 33 tackles · 1 hurries

Best game: 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 1 tackles, vs Utah

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 nose tackle for Wyoming. 2025: 4 sacks, 6 tackles for loss, 33 tackles.

His career, year by year

Ben Florentine

NT · Wyoming · Sr · #94

Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Ben Florentine has played for two head coaches in four seasons at Wyoming. In 2025 the league put his name on paper for the first time: All-Mountain West. One game to point at: 5 tackles against Nevada — Week 13, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022Wyoming7-6HC: Craig Bohl · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2023Wyoming9-4HC: Craig Bohl · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2024Wyoming3-9HC: Jay Sawvel · Run-leaning

2025Wyoming4-8HC: Jay Sawvel · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

89All-Conference level #13 of 330?

Low confidenceSustained Ascent6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: sacks (93rd percentile). Strength: tackles for loss (85th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Sacks#169 / 2975 · 93rd pct

4.0

Tackles for loss#406 / 2975 · 85th pct

6.0

Passes defended#517 / 2975 · 78th pct

Tackles#1194 / 2975 · 59th pct

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Solo tackles#1622 / 2975 · 44th pct

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	3.2	0.7	0.5	0.2
Road6g	2.3	0.3	0.2	0.3

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	2.7	0.8	0.7	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	2.8	0.2	0.0	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jay Sawvel

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

89 · #13 of 330 interior linemen

Unranked recruit. Now #13 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Wyoming	33	13	6.0	4.0	3	--	--
2024	Wyoming	26	11	4.0	1.0	1	--	--
2023	Wyoming	9	6	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
2022	Wyoming	1	1	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
Career		69	31	10.0	5.0	4	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025

W 31–7

vs Northern Iowa

1 TFL · 1 SACKS · 2 SOLO

Dominant 24-point win at home against Northern Iowa.

With B. Edmiston — 48 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 62 LONG · K. Anderson — 167 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 20.9 · -40 rush yds (4 car)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 10-0@ Akron	2	1	1.0	1.0	—	0
Wk 2	W 31-7vs Northern Iowa	5	2	1.0	1.0	—	0	Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 3	L 6-31vs Utah	1	1	1.0	1.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 20-37@ Colorado	2	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	L 17-31vs UNLV	4	1	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	W 35-28vs San José State	2	1	1.5	1.0	—	0
Wk 8	L 21-24@ Air Force	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 9	W 28-0vs Colorado State	2	1	0.5	0.0	—	1
Wk 10	L 7-24@ San Diego State	4	1	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 12	L 3-24@ Fresno State	2	2	1.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 13	L 7-13vs Nevada	5	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	L 7-27@ Hawai'i	3	1	0.0	0.0	—	0
Total		33	13	6.0	4.0	—	3

How he plays

Play style

Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

12 games

33Tackles

13Solo

6TFL

4Sacks

3Pass def.

0INT

33 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6 TFL.

Week 11 sack
Week 21 sack
Week 31 sack
Week 71 sack
Week 81 PD
Week 91 PD
Week 121 PD

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.

2026 Outlook

Wyoming

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Nose tackle · Wyoming

Returning around him

Transfer portal: +3 net (19 in / 16 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Wyoming · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #127 · 2026 recruiting class #114

DNA match

Player DNA

3-Tech Penetrator

Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Sterling Webb’s 2023 season.

Sterling Webb

89%match

New Mexico State · 2023

All-Conference USA

Adin Huntington

Tulane · 2024

All-AAC

88%

Josiah Green

Duke · 2025

88%

Macyo Williams

Kent State · 2022

88%

Vidal Scott

Arkansas State · 2021

85%

Matches Sterling on

Weight

TFL rate

Height

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Soane Toia's senior season at San José State (2023).

Soane Toia

87%match

San José State · 2023

All-Mountain West

Henry Bryant

Georgia State · 2024

All-Sun Belt

85%

Kendy Charles

Liberty · 2023

All-ACC

85%

Jamar Sekona

Hawai'i · 2025

83%

Aeneas Peebles

Duke · 2023

All-ACCNFL Rd 6

79%

Matches Soane on

Weight

TFL rate

Sack rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Ben Florentine

Josiah Green

Duke · 2025

88%

Kendy Charles

Duke · 2024

86%

Rushawn Lawrence

Minnesota · 2025

82%

Justin Rhodes

Georgia Southern · 2024

79%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

202512 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

All-Conference

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

3-Tech Penetrator

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