Darrien Howard: DL · West Virginia · #49.
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Darrien Howard
Wins the gap play after play. A game that shows it: 10 tackles against Oklahoma — Week 12, 2016.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
66 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | West Virginia | 66 | 40 | 6.0 | 3.0 |
| Career | 66 | 40 | 6.0 | 3.0 |
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
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 26-11vs Missouri | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-21vs Youngstown State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 35-32vs BYU | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-16vs Kansas State | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 48-17@ Texas Tech | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-10vs TCU | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-37@ Oklahoma State | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 48-21vs Kansas | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-20@ Texas | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 28-56vs No. 8 Oklahoma | 10 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 49-19@ Iowa State | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 24-21vs Baylor | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 14-31vs Miami | 7 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 66 | 40 | 6.0 | 3.0 | — | 0 |
Week 7 · 2016
W 48-17
at Texas Tech
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 4 tackles
Dominant 31-point win on the road against Texas Tech.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
9%6 TFLSack rate
5%3 sacksHurry rate
2%1 hurry66 tackles · 6 for loss · 3 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 5.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 5.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dana Holgorsen
Pass share
42.0%
409 pass / 564 run
Plays / game
74.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.6%
443 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
66 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at West Virginia, 3 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dana Holgorsen.
