Daniel Rickert is a defensive lineman who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Virginia.
Rickert disrupts the pocket from the interior. Arrived at Virginia from Tennessee Tech. On tape: 5 tackles against Wake Forest, Week 11, 2025.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
36 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 8.5 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.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Virginia | 36 | 17 | 8.5 | 7.0 | 1 |
| Career | 36 | 17 | 8.5 | 7.0 | 1 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-7vs Coastal Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 55-16vs William & Mary | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 48-20vs Stanford | 5 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 46-38vs No. 8 Florida State | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 30-27@ Louisville | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 22-20vs Washington State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 17-16@ North Carolina | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-21@ California | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 9-16vs Wake Forest | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-17@ Duke | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 27-7vs Virginia Tech | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 15 | L 20-27vs Duke | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 13-7vs No. 25 Missouri | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 36 | 17 | 8.5 | 7.0 | — | 1 |
Week 4 · 2025
W 48-20
vs Stanford
2 sacks · 2 tackles for loss · 5 tackles
Dominant 28-point win at home against Stanford.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
24%8 TFLSack rate
19%7 sacksHurry rate
25%9 hurries36 tackles · 8.5 for loss · 7 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Elliott
Pass share
48.0%
492 pass / 534 run
Plays / game
73.3
14 games
Team sack rate
3.6%
474 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2025
36 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Unranked recruit. Now #37 at the position.
2026 outlook
In the mix for All-ACC
Based on 2025: #6 of 73 ACC DLs
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
