Keishawn Bierria: LB · Washington · #7.
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Keishawn Bierria
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. Two seasons in the Washington linebacker corps to date. One game to point at: 11 tackles against Penn State — Bowl, 2017.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
60 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 4 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Washington | 60 | 41 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2 |
| 2016 | Washington | 68 | 41 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 2 |
| Career | 128 | 82 | 9.0 | 3.0 | 4 |
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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 30-14@ Rutgers | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 63-7vs Montana | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-10@ Colorado | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 7-13@ Arizona State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 44-23vs UCLA | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-3vs Oregon | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-30@ Stanford | 7 | 7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 33-30vs Utah | 6 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 41-14vs No. 14 Washington State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 28-35vs No. 9 Penn State | 11 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 60 | 41 | 4.0 | 1.0 | — | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
60tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%4 TFLSack rate
2%1 sackPD rate
3%2 pass breakups60 tackles · 4 for loss · 1 sack.
2 seasons under Chris Petersen, all run-leaning offenses — 22-5 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 5.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 6.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Petersen
Pass share
42.6%
346 pass / 466 run
Plays / game
62.5
13 games
Team sack rate
5.3%
379 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Washington, 128 tackles — drafted at #217 overall by the Denver Broncos.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Steve Sarkisian → Chris Petersen. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Denver BroncosEntering 9th NFL season
Denver BroncosEntering 9th NFL season
