Brandon Crawford: DL · Buffalo · #55.
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Brandon Crawford
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. A game that shows it: 12 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Army — Week 4, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
54 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 12.5 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 | Buffalo | 54 | 34 | 12.5 | 4.0 | 2 |
| Career | 54 | 34 | 12.5 | 4.0 | 2 |
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 | L 16-22vs UAlbany | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-38@ Nevada | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 23-20vs Army | 12 | 7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 3-35@ Boston College | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 20-44vs Kent State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-31vs Ball State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-44@ Northern Illinois | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-20vs Akron | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-34@ Ohio | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-35vs Miami (OH) | 5 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 0-38@ No. 14 Western Michigan | 4 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 19-27@ Bowling Green | 5 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 54 | 34 | 12.5 | 4.0 | — | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
23%12 TFLSack rate
7%4 sacksHurry rate
6%3 hurries54 tackles · 12.5 for loss · 4 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lance Leipold
Pass share
48.8%
397 pass / 417 run
Plays / game
67.8
12 games
Team sack rate
5.3%
432 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
54 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Buffalo, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Jeff Quinn, Alex Wood, and Lance Leipold. Multi-era developmental context.
