Junior defensive tackle on TCU's 2025 roster.
6′5″ · 305 lb · College Station, TX · College Station High School
The numbers
sacks · 2025
0.5 TFL · 8 tackles
Best game: 0.5 TFL, 1 tackles, at Houston
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 defensive tackle on TCU's 2025 roster.
Connor Lingren
Second year in the TCU defensive front, same address the whole way. The receipt: 1 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Houston — Week 13, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
2 seasons under Sonny Dykes — 18-8 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (0th 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
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Dykes
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 42-21vs Abilene Christian | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 1 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 24-27@ Arizona State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 35-21vs Colorado | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 28-41@ Kansas State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 42-36vs Baylor | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-20vs Iowa State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-44@ BYU | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 17-14@ Houston | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 8 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
8 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0.5 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.
2026 Outlook
TCU
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive tackle · TCU
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
TCU · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #40 · 2026 recruiting class #47
HONORS » 2023 First-Team Academic All-Big 12 AT TCU 2025 | JUNIOR (13/0) Saw action in every game … recorded a tackle in eight games for TCU during the season. 2024 | SOPHOMORE (8/0) Played in eight games ... totaled four tackles ... had three solo stops at Baylor ... assisted on a tackle in the...