Danny Ezechukwu: LB · Purdue · #36.
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Danny Ezechukwu
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Played for three head coaches at Purdue: Darrell Hazell, Gerad Parker and Jeff Brohm. A game that shows it: 10 tackles and 1 sack against Indiana — Week 13, 2017.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
50 tackles. 1 pass defended. 2 interceptions. 9 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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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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 28-35vs No. 16 Louisville | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 44-21vs Ohio | 6 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 35-3@ Missouri | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-28vs No. 8 Michigan | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-17vs Minnesota | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 9-17@ No. 7 Wisconsin | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-25vs Nebraska | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 29-10vs Illinois | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 11 | L 13-23@ Northwestern | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 24-15@ Iowa | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-24vs Indiana | 10 | 7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
 Bowl | W 38-35vs Arizona | 5 | 5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | 36 | 9.0 | 5.0 | 2 | 1 |
Week 13 · 2017
W 31-24
vs Indiana
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 10 tackles
A close one, won by 7 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
50tackles this seasonTFL rate
18%9 TFLSack rate
10%5 sacksPD rate
2%1 pass breakups50 tackles · 9 for loss · 5 sacks · 2 interceptions.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Brohm
Pass share
52.8%
489 pass / 438 run
Plays / game
71.3
13 games
Team sack rate
6.0%
514 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Purdue, 102 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Darrell Hazell, Gerad Parker, and Jeff Brohm. Multi-era developmental context.
