Budda Baker: DB · Washington · #32.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Budda Baker
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Three seasons in the Washington secondary to date. That makes two straight seasons on the honors list: All-Pac-12 again in 2016. On tape: 10 tackles against Arizona, Week 4, 2016.
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
70 tackles. 5 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 10 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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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Washington | 70 | 48 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 5 | 2 |
| 2015 | Washington | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| 2014 | Washington | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 70 | 48 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 5 | 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
2016 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-13vs Rutgers | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 59-14vs Idaho | 6 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-3vs Portland State | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 35-28@ Arizona | 10 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 44-6vs No. 7 Stanford | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 70-21@ Oregon | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 41-17vs Oregon State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-24@ No. 17 Utah | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 66-27@ California | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 13-26vs USC | 7 | 6 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 44-18vs Arizona State | 5 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 45-17@ No. 23 Washington State | 8 | 5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 41-10vs No. 9 Colorado | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
 Bowl | L 7-24vs No. 1 Alabama | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 70 | 48 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 2 | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
7%5 pass breakupsInterceptions
2interceptionsTackle volume
70tackles this seasonTFL rate
14%10 TFL70 tackles · 10 for loss · 3 sacks · 5 pass breakups · 2 interceptions.
3 seasons under Chris Petersen, all run-leaning offenses — 27-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 6.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 5.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Petersen
Pass share
44.3%
408 pass / 514 run
Plays / game
65.9
14 games
Team sack rate
5.9%
444 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Three seasons at Washington, 70 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2015) — drafted at #36 overall by the Arizona Cardinals.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Chris Petersen.
Next stop · NFL
Arizona CardinalsEntering 10th NFL season
Arizona CardinalsEntering 10th NFL season
