Brennan Williams: DL · Akron · #97.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brennan Williams
Wins the gap play after play. Third year in the same defensive front at Akron. A game that shows it: 8 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Bowling Green — Week 12, 2018.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
43 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 9 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.
Akron Beacon Journal Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 41-7vs Morgan State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 39-34@ Northwestern | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 13-26@ Iowa State | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 17-41vs Miami (OH) | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-24@ Buffalo | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 24-23@ Kent State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 17-10vs Central Michigan | 5 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 26-36vs Northern Illinois | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 7-27@ Eastern Michigan | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 6-21vs Bowling Green | 8 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 28-49@ Ohio | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 3-28@ South Carolina | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 43 | 22 | 9.0 | 3.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
21%9 TFLSack rate
7%3 sacksHurry rate
9%4 hurries43 tackles · 9 for loss · 3 sacks.
3 seasons under Terry Bowden, all balanced offenses — 16-22 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road7g | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Terry Bowden
Pass share
49.2%
377 pass / 389 run
Plays / game
63.8
12 games
Team sack rate
8.1%
431 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
43 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Akron, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Terry Bowden.
