Lowell Lotulelei: DT · Utah · #93.
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Lowell Lotulelei
Wins the gap play after play. Second year in the same defensive front at Utah. The first one came in 2015: All-Pac-12. One game to point at: 4 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss against West Virginia — Bowl, 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
16 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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.
The Salt Lake Tribune Nov 2
KJZZ Oct 29The Salt Lake Tribune Oct 27
KUTV Oct 23Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
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 · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-16vs North Dakota | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 2 | W 19-13@ BYU | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 54-16vs San José State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-28@ No. 13 USC | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-30vs Arizona State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 30-33@ No. 16 Washington | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 34-13vs Colorado | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 30-14vs West Virginia | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 6 | 3.5 | 1.5 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
22%4 TFLSack rate
9%2 sacksHurry rate
6%1 hurry16 tackles · 3.5 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Kyle Whittingham — 16-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kyle Whittingham
Pass share
45.5%
427 pass / 512 run
Plays / game
72.2
13 games
Team sack rate
7.9%
484 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Utah, 44 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2015) — the college career is complete.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2015)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Kyle Whittingham.
