Fred Warner: LB · BYU · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Fred Warner
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Played for two head coaches at BYU: Bronco Mendenhall and Kalani Sitake. A game that shows it: 11 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against East Carolina — Week 8, 2017.
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
87 tackles. 5 passes defended. 1 interception. 9 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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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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 20-6vs Portland State | 10 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 1 | L 0-27vs No. 13 LSU | 8 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 13-19vs Utah | 8 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 6-40vs No. 10 Wisconsin | 7 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-40@ Utah State | 8 | 2 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 6 | L 7-24vs Boise State | 10 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-35@ Mississippi State | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-33@ East Carolina | 11 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 41-20vs San José State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 13-20@ Fresno State | 8 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 31-21@ UNLV | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-16vs Massachusetts | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 30-20@ Hawai'i | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 87 | 48 | 9.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
87tackles this seasonTFL rate
10%9 TFLSack rate
1%1 sackPD rate
6%5 pass breakups87 tackles · 9 for loss · 1 sack · 1 interception.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 6.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 6.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 8.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kalani Sitake
Pass share
51.0%
418 pass / 402 run
Plays / game
63.1
13 games
Team sack rate
5.8%
447 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
87 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at BYU, 173 tackles — drafted at #70 overall by the San Francisco 49ers.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Bronco Mendenhall → Kalani Sitake. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
San Francisco 49ersEntering 9th NFL season
San Francisco 49ersEntering 9th NFL season
