Drue Tranquill: LB · Notre Dame · #23.
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Drue Tranquill
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Four seasons in the Notre Dame linebacker corps to date. On tape: 11 tackles against Clemson, Bowl, 2018.
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
79 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6.5 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Notre Dame | 79 | 59 | 6.5 | 1.5 | 4 | -- |
| 2017 | Notre Dame | 77 | 39 | 10.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 1 |
| 2016 | Notre Dame | 79 | 54 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2014 | Notre Dame | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 235 | 152 | 19.0 | 3.0 | 8 | 3 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-17vs No. 14 Michigan | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 24-16vs Ball State | 9 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 22-17vs Vanderbilt | 9 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 56-27@ Wake Forest | 8 | 6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 38-17vs No. 7 Stanford | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 6 | W 45-23@ No. 24 Virginia Tech | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 19-14vs Pittsburgh | 6 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 44-22vs Navy | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-21@ Northwestern | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-13vs Florida State | 7 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 24-17@ USC | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | L 3-30vs No. 2 Clemson | 11 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 79 | 59 | 6.5 | 1.5 | — | 4 |
Week 4 · 2018
W 56-27
at Wake Forest
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 8 tackles
Dominant 29-point win on the road against Wake Forest.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
79tackles this seasonTFL rate
8%6 TFLSack rate
2%2 sacksPD rate
5%4 pass breakups79 tackles · 6.5 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
4 seasons under Brian Kelly — 34-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 6.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Road4g | 6.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 7.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 5.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Kelly
Pass share
44.9%
419 pass / 514 run
Plays / game
71.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.1%
451 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
79 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Notre Dame, 235 tackles — drafted at #130 overall by the Los Angeles Chargers.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Brian Kelly.
Next stop · NFL
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 8th NFL season
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 8th NFL season
