Former safety at BYU. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′0″ · 195 lb · Orem, UT
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
The story
Former safety at BYU. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearEthan Slade
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Fourth year in the BYU secondary, same address the whole way. One game to point at: 4 tackles against Arizona State — Week 13, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at BYU, 93 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kalani Sitake.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Kalani Sitake — 34-17 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kalani Sitake
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2024
W 18–15
at SMU
1 TOT
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 on the road.
With J. Retzlaff — 202 yds · 1 TD · 2 INT · QBR 29.6 · 35 rush yds (10 car) · S. Vander Haar — 42 AVG · 46 LONG · 3 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-13vs Southern Illinois | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 18-15@ SMU | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-28@ Baylor | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 38-35vs Oklahoma State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-17vs Kansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 23-28@ Arizona State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 14 | W 30-18vs Houston | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 36-14@ Colorado | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
15 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Conrad Hussey’s 2024 season.
Matches Conrad on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jackson Greene's senior season at App State (2023).
Matches Jackson on
Differs from Jackson on
Player DNA