Brandon Garner: LB · North Texas · #37.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brandon Garner
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Third year in the North Texas linebacker corps. A game that shows it: 9 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Old Dominion — Week 11, 2018.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
66 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 18 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.
University of North Texas Athletics Oct 20
CBS News Oct 16Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | North Texas | 66 | 37 | 18.0 | 6.5 | 2 |
| 2017 | North Texas | 68 | 36 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 3 |
| 2016 | North Texas | 50 | 32 | 6.0 | 3.5 | -- |
| Career | 184 | 105 | 30.5 | 12.0 | 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
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 46-23vs SMU | 6 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 58-16vs Incarnate Word | 7 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 44-17@ Arkansas | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 47-7@ Liberty | 5 | 5 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 5 | L 27-29vs Louisiana Tech | 7 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-24@ UTEP | 4 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 30-7vs Southern Miss | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 21-29@ UAB | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-17vs Rice | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 31-34@ Old Dominion | 9 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 41-38vs Florida Atlantic | 4 | 2 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 13 | W 24-21@ UTSA | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 13-52vs Utah State | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 66 | 37 | 18.0 | 6.5 | — | 2 |
Week 3 · 2018
W 44-17
at Arkansas
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 4 tackles
Dominant 27-point win on the road against Arkansas.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
66tackles this seasonTFL rate
27%18 TFLSack rate
10%6 sacksPD rate
3%2 pass breakups66 tackles · 18 for loss · 6.5 sacks.
3 seasons under Seth Littrell — 23-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.2 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 5.0 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 5.1 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.0 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Seth Littrell
Pass share
51.4%
504 pass / 477 run
Plays / game
75.5
13 games
Team sack rate
5.0%
538 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2018
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at North Texas, 184 tackles — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 38 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dan McCarney → Seth Littrell. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
