Kevin Palma: ILB · Stanford · #44.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kevin Palma
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Two seasons in the Stanford linebacker corps to date. A game that shows it: 3 tackles against California — Week 12, 2017.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
15 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 1 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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 24-42@ No. 6 USC | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 17-20@ San Diego State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 58-34vs UCLA | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-24vs Arizona State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 23-20@ No. 20 Utah | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 49-7vs Oregon | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 30-22vs No. 9 Washington | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 17-14vs California | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 14 | L 28-31vs No. 11 USC | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 37-39vs No. 13 TCU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
15tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%1 TFLSack rate
7%1 sackPD rate
7%1 pass breakups15 tackles · 1 for loss · 1 sack.
2 seasons under David Shaw — 19-8 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Shaw
Pass share
44.1%
363 pass / 460 run
Plays / game
58.8
14 games
Team sack rate
4.4%
390 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Stanford, 56 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under David Shaw.
