Kendal Vickers: DL · Tennessee · #39.
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Kendal Vickers
Wins the gap play after play. Second year in the Tennessee defensive front. On tape: 9 tackles and 1 sack against Georgia, Week 5, 2017.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
51 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6 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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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 · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-41vs Georgia Tech | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-7vs Indiana State | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 20-26@ No. 24 Florida | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 17-13vs Massachusetts | 5 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 0-41vs No. 7 Georgia | 9 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 9-15vs South Carolina | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-45@ No. 1 Alabama | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 26-29@ Kentucky | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-10vs Southern Miss | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-30vs No. 21 LSU | 8 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-42vs Vanderbilt | 5 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 51 | 14 | 6.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
12%6 TFLSack rate
3%2 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries51 tackles · 6 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Butch Jones — 13-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 5.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Butch Jones
Pass share
44.1%
319 pass / 405 run
Plays / game
60.3
12 games
Team sack rate
9.4%
363 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
51 tackles in 11 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Tennessee, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Butch Jones.
