Senior linebacker for Virginia. 2020: 44 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, 6 sacks.
6′7″ · 235 lb · Silver Spring, MD
Recruiting
OLB recruit
No. 1477 nationally · Signed with Virginia
Statement game10 tackles · 4 TFL · 4 sacksvs North Carolina (FBS) · W 44-41
Top 0.1% sacks game since 2021.
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4 linebacker for Virginia. 2020: 44 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, 6 sacks.
Charles Snowden
He has spent four seasons in the Virginia linebacker corps. In 2020 the league put his name on paper for the first time: All-ACC. One game to point at: 10 tackles, 4 sacks against North Carolina — Week 9, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Virginia, 191 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-ACC · 2ND TEAM
All-ACC 2nd team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Bronco Mendenhall.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Bronco Mendenhall — 28-22 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: sacks (98th percentile). Strength: tackles for loss (97th percentile).
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 · Per-game
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Road3g | 6.3 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 5.5 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Elliott
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 9 · 2020
W 44–41
10 TOT · 5 SOLO · 4 SACKS
Edged out North Carolina at home in a shootout.
With B. Armstrong — 208 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · 66 rush yds (20 car) · 1 TD · S. Simpson — 70 rush yds (8 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | W 38-20vs Duke | 6 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 5 | L 23-41@ Clemson | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-38vs NC State | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 23-40@ Wake Forest | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 14-19@ Miami | 8 | 5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 | 3.5 TFL |
| Wk 9 | W 44-41vs North Carolina | 10 | 5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 11 | W 31-17vs Louisville | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 55-15vs Abilene Christian | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 44 | 20 | 10.0 | 6.0 | — | 3 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
44 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 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.