Bernard Dawson: DE · Georgia Southern · #56.
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Bernard Dawson
Collapses the pocket even when the sack doesn't come. The first career honor came in 2015: All-Sun Belt. On tape: 4 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Arkansas State, Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Collapses the pocket even when the sack doesn't come.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
21 tackles. 1 pass 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Georgia Southern | 21 | 12 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Career | 21 | 12 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 1 |
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
2016 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 24-9@ South Alabama | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 23-21vs UL Monroe | 4 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 4 | L 31-49@ Western Michigan | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 26-27@ Arkansas State | 4 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 10-34vs App State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 26-33vs Louisiana | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-30@ Georgia State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-24vs Troy | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 21 | 12 | 5.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
2%0 sacksTFL rate
26%6 TFLHurry rate
19%4 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
11%0 of 4 pressures21 tackles · 5.5 for loss · 0.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tyson Summers
Pass share
34.1%
264 pass / 510 run
Plays / game
64.5
12 games
Team sack rate
4.9%
286 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Georgia Southern, 0 sacks — the college career is complete.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT · 2ND TEAM
All-Sun Belt 2nd team (2015)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Willie Fritz → Tyson Summers. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
