Jonathan Willis: LB · Oregon State · #32.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jonathan Willis
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. Played for three head coaches in four seasons at Oregon State. On tape: 7 tackles against Ohio State, Week 1, 2018.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
35 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2 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.
OregonLive Nov 2OregonLive Oct 26
Sports Illustrated Oct 23Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Oregon State | 35 | 22 | 2.0 | 1.0 | -- |
| 2017 | Oregon State | 68 | 36 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 2 |
| 2016 | Oregon State | 26 | 17 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
| 2015 | Oregon State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 129 | 75 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 3 |
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
2018 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-77@ No. 5 Ohio State | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 48-25vs Southern Utah | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 35-37@ Nevada | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 14-35vs Arizona | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-52@ Arizona State | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 37-56vs Washington State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-49vs California | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-38vs USC | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-48@ Stanford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 23-42@ No. 17 Washington | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 15-55vs Oregon | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 35 | 22 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Week 2 · 2018
W 48-25
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 6 tackles
Dominant 23-point win at home against Southern Utah.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
35tackles this seasonTFL rate
6%2 TFLSack rate
3%1 sackPD rate
0%0 pass breakups35 tackles · 2 for loss · 1 sack.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jonathan Smith
Pass share
47.1%
429 pass / 481 run
Plays / game
75.8
12 games
Team sack rate
9.8%
480 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2018
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Oregon State, 129 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
4 coachesPlayed under 4 different head coaches: Mike Riley, Gary Andersen, Cory Hall, and Jonathan Smith. Multi-era developmental context.
