Derik Overstreet: DL · Western Kentucky · #42.
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Derik Overstreet
Wins the gap play after play. Played for two head coaches in two seasons at Western Kentucky. One game to point at: 8 tackles against Old Dominion — Week 8, 2017.
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
47 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 8 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 | Western Kentucky | 47 | 12 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2016 | Western Kentucky | 34 | 15 | 8.5 | 4.0 | -- | 1 |
| Career | 81 | 27 | 16.5 | 7.0 | 1 | 1 |
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 | W 31-17vs Eastern Kentucky | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 22-23vs Louisiana Tech | 5 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 33-21vs Ball State | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 15-14@ UTEP | 5 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 45-14vs Charlotte | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 35-31@ Old Dominion | 8 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 9 | L 28-42vs Florida Atlantic | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-31@ Vanderbilt | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-30@ Marshall | 6 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 41-38vs Middle Tennessee | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-41@ Florida International | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | L 17-27vs Georgia State | 5 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 47 | 12 | 8.0 | 3.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
17%8 TFLSack rate
6%3 sacksHurry rate
11%5 hurries47 tackles · 8 for loss · 3 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Sanford Jr.
Pass share
59.9%
577 pass / 387 run
Plays / game
74.2
13 games
Team sack rate
7.4%
635 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
47 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Western Kentucky, 7 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Jeff Brohm → Mike Sanford Jr.. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
