Brad Watson: DB · Wake Forest · #25.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brad Watson
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Second year in the same secondary at Wake Forest. A game that shows it: 9 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Clemson — Week 12, 2016.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
63 tackles. 6 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 1 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 | Wake Forest | 63 | 49 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 6 | 2 |
| 2015 | Wake Forest | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Career | 63 | 49 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 6 | 4 |
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 7-3vs Tulane | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 24-14@ Duke | 9 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 33-28@ Indiana | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 16-33@ NC State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 28-9vs Syracuse | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-17@ No. 14 Florida State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 13-21vs Army | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 27-20vs Virginia | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 12-44@ No. 5 Louisville | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-35vs No. 5 Clemson | 9 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-17vs Boston College | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 34-26vs No. 23 Temple | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 63 | 49 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 6 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
10%6 pass breakupsInterceptions
2interceptionsTackle volume
63tackles this seasonTFL rate
2%1 TFL63 tackles · 1 for loss · 6 pass breakups · 2 interceptions.
2 seasons under Dave Clawson — 10-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 5.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 6.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dave Clawson
Pass share
40.6%
353 pass / 516 run
Plays / game
66.8
13 games
Team sack rate
10.1%
397 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
63 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Wake Forest, 63 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Jim Grobe → Dave Clawson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
