Ifeadi Odenigbo: DL · Northwestern · #7.
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Ifeadi Odenigbo
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. The first career honor came in 2016: All-Big Ten. A game that shows it: 5 tackles and 4 sacks against Iowa — Week 5, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
22 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 12 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 | Northwestern | 22 | 16 | 12.0 | 10.0 |
| Career | 22 | 16 | 12.0 | 10.0 |
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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 21-22vs Western Michigan | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-9vs Illinois State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-13vs Duke | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 13-24vs No. 20 Nebraska | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 38-31@ Iowa | 5 | 4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 54-40@ Michigan State | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 8 | W 24-14vs Indiana | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-21vs No. 8 Wisconsin | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 12-29@ Minnesota | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-21vs Illinois | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 22 | 16 | 12.0 | 10.0 | — | 0 |
Week 5 · 2016
W 38-31
at Iowa
4 sacks · 4 tackles for loss · 5 tackles
Edged out Iowa on the road in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
55%12 TFLSack rate
45%10 sacksHurry rate
27%6 hurries22 tackles · 12 for loss · 10 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 3.3 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.7 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Fitzgerald
Pass share
49.8%
482 pass / 486 run
Plays / game
74.5
13 games
Team sack rate
7.2%
541 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
One season at Northwestern, 10 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — drafted at #220 overall by the Minnesota Vikings.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN · 1ST TEAM
All-Big Ten 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Pat Fitzgerald.
Next stop · NFL
Minnesota VikingsEntering 10th NFL season
Minnesota VikingsEntering 10th NFL season
