Brooks Ellis: LB · Arkansas · #51.
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Brooks Ellis
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Three seasons in the Arkansas linebacker corps to date. One game to point at: 13 tackles and 3 tackles for loss against TCU — Week 2, 2016.
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
83 tackles. 5 passes defended. 1 interception. 7 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
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 21-20vs Louisiana Tech | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 41-38@ No. 15 TCU | 13 | 8 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | Season-high 13 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 42-3vs Texas State | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-45vs No. 10 Texas A&M | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 52-10vs Alcorn State | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 30-49vs No. 1 Alabama | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-30vs No. 12 Ole Miss | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 3-56@ No. 21 Auburn | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-10vs No. 10 Florida | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-38vs No. 19 LSU | 7 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 58-42@ Mississippi State | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-28@ Missouri | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 24-35vs No. 18 Virginia Tech | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 83 | 38 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 5 |
Week 2 · 2016
W 41-38
at TCU
1 interception · 3 tackles for loss · 13 tackles
Edged out TCU on the road in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
83tackles this seasonTFL rate
8%7 TFLSack rate
1%1 sackPD rate
6%5 pass breakups83 tackles · 7 for loss · 1 sack · 1 interception.
3 seasons under Bret Bielema — 22-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 6.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 7.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 7.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bret Bielema
Pass share
44.4%
406 pass / 509 run
Plays / game
70.4
13 games
Team sack rate
7.5%
451 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
83 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Arkansas, 83 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bret Bielema.
