Breeland Speaks: DE · Ole Miss · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Breeland Speaks
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Played for two head coaches at Ole Miss: Hugh Freeze and Matt Luke. The first one came in 2017: All-SEC. One game to point at: 8 tackles against Texas A&M — Week 12, 2017.
Play style
No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
67 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 8 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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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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 47-27vs South Alabama | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-23vs UT Martin | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 16-27@ California | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 3-66@ No. 1 Alabama | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 23-44@ No. 12 Auburn | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 57-35vs Vanderbilt | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-40vs No. 24 LSU | 13 | 7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 13 tackles |
| Wk 9 | L 37-38vs Arkansas | 5 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 10 | W 37-34@ Kentucky | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 50-22vs Louisiana | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-31vs Texas A&M | 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-28@ No. 16 Mississippi State | 12 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 67 | 27 | 8.0 | 7.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
10%7 sacksTFL rate
12%8 TFLHurry rate
12%8 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
47%7 of 15 pressures67 tackles · 8 for loss · 7 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 6.0 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 7.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Matt Luke
Pass share
54.1%
433 pass / 367 run
Plays / game
66.7
12 games
Team sack rate
6.8%
473 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Two seasons at Ole Miss, 8 sacks — drafted at #46 overall by the Kansas City Chiefs.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SEC · 2ND TEAM
All-SEC 2nd team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Hugh Freeze → Matt Luke. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Kansas City ChiefsEntering 9th NFL season
Kansas City ChiefsEntering 9th NFL season
