Brandon Bryant: DB · Mississippi State · #1.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brandon Bryant
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Third year in the same secondary at Mississippi State. One game to point at: 11 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Auburn — Week 5, 2017.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
32 tackles. 2 passes defended. 1 interception. 0.5 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.
The Clarion-Ledger Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mississippi State | 32 | 13 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2016 | Mississippi State | 62 | 35 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2015 | Mississippi State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Career | 94 | 48 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 4 | 5 |
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
2017 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-0vs Charleston Southern | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 57-21@ Louisiana Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-7vs No. 12 LSU | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 3-31@ No. 11 Georgia | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-49@ No. 13 Auburn | 11 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 35-10vs BYU | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-7vs Kentucky | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 35-14@ Texas A&M | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 34-23vs Massachusetts | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-31vs No. 1 Alabama | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 28-31vs Ole Miss | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 32 | 13 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
6%2 pass breakupsInterceptions
1interceptionsTackle volume
32tackles this seasonTFL rate
2%0 TFL32 tackles · 0.5 for loss · 2 pass breakups · 1 interception.
3 seasons under Dan Mullen — 24-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road4g | 3.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Mullen
Pass share
36.2%
353 pass / 623 run
Plays / game
75.1
13 games
Team sack rate
3.4%
380 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Mississippi State, 94 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dan Mullen.
