James Sanford: LB · Bowling Green · #4.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
James Sanford
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Played for two head coaches in two seasons at Bowling Green. On tape: 5 tackles against North Dakota, Week 2, 2016.
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
19 tackles. 1 pass 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| 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 |
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 · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-77@ No. 6 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 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
19tackles this seasonTFL rate
0%0 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksPD rate
5%1 pass breakups19 tackles.
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
Mike Jinks
Pass share
47.3%
449 pass / 500 run
Plays / game
79.1
12 games
Team sack rate
5.1%
448 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Bowling Green, 19 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Dave Clawson, Dino Babers, and Mike Jinks. Multi-era developmental context.
