Dante Sawyer: DL · South Carolina · #95.
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Dante Sawyer
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Two seasons in the South Carolina defensive front to date. On tape: 7 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against NC State, Week 1, 2017.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
30 tackles. 5 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 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 | South Carolina | 30 | 19 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 5 |
| 2016 | South Carolina | 25 | 17 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2 |
| Career | 55 | 36 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 7 |
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 · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-28vs NC State | 7 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-13@ Missouri | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 13-23vs Kentucky | 6 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 17-24@ Texas A&M | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 48-22vs Arkansas | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 15-9@ Tennessee | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-27vs Vanderbilt | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-24@ No. 2 Georgia | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-10vs Wofford | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-34vs No. 4 Clemson | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 26-19vs Michigan | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Total | 30 | 19 | 5.0 | 3.0 | — | 5 |
Week 1 · 2017
W 35-28
vs NC State · neutral site
1 sack · 1.5 tackles for loss · 7 tackles
Edged out NC State at a neutral site in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
17%5 TFLSack rate
10%3 sacksHurry rate
13%4 hurries30 tackles · 5 for loss · 3 sacks.
2 seasons under Will Muschamp — 15-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Will Muschamp
Pass share
50.1%
395 pass / 394 run
Plays / game
60.7
13 games
Team sack rate
6.6%
437 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at South Carolina, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Steve Spurrier, Shawn Elliott, and Will Muschamp. Multi-era developmental context.
