Daniel Ekuale: DL · Washington State · #90.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Daniel Ekuale
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Two seasons in the Washington State defensive front to date. On tape: 3 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against Stanford, Week 10, 2017.
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
16 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Washington State | 16 | 7 | 3.5 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | Washington State | 23 | 14 | 2.5 | 1.0 |
| Career | 39 | 21 | 6.0 | 2.0 |
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
2017 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-0vs Montana State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 47-44vs Boise State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-7vs Nevada | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 30-27vs No. 5 USC | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 33-10@ Oregon | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 28-0vs Colorado | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-21vs No. 18 Stanford | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 14-41@ No. 15 Washington | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 17-42vs No. 18 Michigan State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 7 | 3.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Week 10 · 2017
W 24-21
vs Stanford
1 sack · 1.5 tackles for loss · 3 tackles
A close one, won by 3 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
22%4 TFLSack rate
6%1 sackHurry rate
25%4 hurries16 tackles · 3.5 for loss · 1 sack.
2 seasons under Mike Leach, all pass-heavy, fast tempo offenses — 17-9 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Leach
Pass share
70.5%
713 pass / 299 run
Plays / game
77.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.6%
765 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Washington State, 2 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mike Leach.
From Pago Pago, American Samoa — one of 16 players from American Samoa in FBS this season.
