Bryce Ramirez

Senior linebacker for Texas Tech. 2025: 21 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 sack.

LB · Texas Tech · Sr. · #3

6′2″ · 235 lb · Missouri City, TX

CFB Index 19 · #532 of 583 LBsHigh confidenceReturning to Texas Tech for 2026

The numbers

tackles · 2025

1 TFL · 1 sacks

Best game: 4 tackles, 1 TFL, 1 sacks, vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 linebacker for Texas Tech. 2025: 21 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 sack.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.

Sacks: 63rd percentile.

The full scouting read

Bryce Ramirez

LB · Texas Tech · Sr · #3

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles. Five seasons at Texas Tech, two different head coaches: Matt Wells and Joey McGuire. The receipt: 4 tackles against Kansas — Week 7, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Texas Tech7-6HC: Matt Wells · Balanced

2022Texas Tech8-5HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced, fast tempo

2023Texas Tech7-6HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced

2024Texas Tech8-5HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced, fast tempo

2025Texas Tech12-2HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

19Below cohort / limited sample #532 of 583?

High confidence7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).

Box-score production (7)

Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct

1.0

Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct

Solo tackles#1520 / 2975 · 47th pct

Tackles#1929 / 2975 · 34th pct

Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct

1.0

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	2.3	0.1	0.1	0.0
Road4g	1.2	0.0	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-74g	2.5	0.2	0.2	0.0
Weeks 8+7g	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Joey McGuire

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

19 · #532 of 583 LBs

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #66 of 73 Big 12 LBs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Texas Tech	21	14	1.0	1.0	--	--	--
2024	Texas Tech	11	9	0.0	0.0	--	1	--
2023	Texas Tech	21	14	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
2022	Texas Tech	4	4	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
2021	Texas Tech	3	2	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
Career		60	43	1.0	1.0	--	1	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 67-7vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff	4	3	1.0	1.0	—	Season-high 4 tackles
Wk 2	W 62-14vs Kent State	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 6	W 35-11@ Houston	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 7	W 42-17vs Kansas	4	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 8	L 22-26@ Arizona State	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 9	W 42-0vs Oklahoma State	3	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 10	W 43-20@ Kansas State	2	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 11	W 29-7vs BYU	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 12	W 48-9vs UCF	2	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 14	W 49-0@ West Virginia	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 15	W 34-7vs BYU	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Total		21	14	1.0	1.0	—

How he plays

Play style

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

11 games

21Tackles

14Solo

1TFL

1Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

21 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 TFL.

Week 11 sack

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.

2026 Outlook

Texas Tech

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Linebacker · Texas Tech

Returning around him

9 Texas Tech players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +2 net (23 in / 21 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Texas Tech · Last season: 12-2 (AP #4) · Talent rank #29 · 2026 recruiting class #18

DNA match

Player DNA

Sideline-to-Sideline

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jimmy Phillips’s 2020 season.

Jimmy Phillips

76%match

SMU · 2020

JB Brown

Bowling Green · 2021

76%

Myles Jackson

Indiana · 2023

75%

Branden Jennings

Maryland · 2021

72%

Andrew Awe

Rice · 2022

71%

Matches Jimmy on

TFL rate

Weight

Solo tackle rate

Differs from Jimmy on

Height (lower)

Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Boone Bonnema's graduate season at Western Michigan (2024).

Boone Bonnema

77%match

Western Michigan · 2024

Taiwan Berryhill

Kansas · 2024

75%

Justin Wright

Oklahoma State · 2024

All-AAC

75%

Daniel Heimuli

Georgia State · 2024

73%

Brady Anderson

San Diego State · 2025

72%

Matches Boone on

Tackle volume

TFL rate

Height

Differs from Boone on

Solo tackle rate (higher)

Player DNA

Players who play like Bryce Ramirez

Hunter Barth

California · 2023

83%

Micah Pollard

Liberty · 2025

83%

Anthony Brackenridge

Western Kentucky · 2024

77%

Josh White

Baylor · 2023

75%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology