Linebacker for Bowling Green. 2016: 19 tackles.
6′1″ · Xenia, OH
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 995 nationally · Signed with Bowling Green
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
2016 linebacker for Bowling Green. 2016: 19 tackles.
James Sanford
James Sanford has played for two head coaches in two seasons at Bowling Green. The receipt on tape: 5 tackles against North Dakota, Week 2, 2016.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Two seasons at Bowling Green, 19 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2015–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dino Babers → Mike Jinks. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (8th 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
2016 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Eddie George
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2016
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Bowling Green | 19 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Bowling Green | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Career | 19 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2016
W 27–26
vs North Dakota
5 TOT · 3 SOLO
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 1 at home.
With S. Miller — 5 rec · 161 yds · 3 TD · J. Davidson — 48 AVG · 54 LONG · 6 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-77@ Ohio State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 27-26vs North Dakota | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 21-41vs Middle Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 3-77@ Memphis | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 35-42@ Toledo | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 26-40vs Miami (OH) | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-28@ Akron | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 27-19vs Buffalo | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
19 tackles. 1 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