Montez Sweat: DE · Mississippi State · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Montez Sweat
Wins the corner before the tackle can set. The two seasons at Mississippi State span two head coaches: Dan Mullen and Joe Moorhead. The first one came in 2018: All-America (Sporting News). On tape: 5 tackles against Alabama, Week 11, 2018.
Play style
Bends the edge and wins with first-step quickness. Lighter frame, relentless motor.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
50 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 11 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Mississippi State | 50 | 24 | 11.0 | 8.5 |
| 2017 | Mississippi State | 48 | 21 | 15.5 | 10.5 |
| Career | 98 | 45 | 26.5 | 19.0 |
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-6vs Stephen F. Austin | 6 | 2 | 3.5 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 2 | W 31-10@ Kansas State | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 56-10vs Louisiana | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-28@ Kentucky | 6 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 6-13vs Florida | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 3-19@ No. 5 LSU | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 28-13vs No. 16 Texas A&M | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 45-3vs Louisiana Tech | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 0-24@ No. 1 Alabama | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 52-6vs Arkansas | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 35-3@ Ole Miss | 6 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 22-27vs Iowa | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | 24 | 11.0 | 8.5 | — | 0 |
Week 1 · 2018
W 63-6
2 sacks · 3.5 tackles for loss · 6 tackles
Dominant 57-point win at home against Stephen F. Austin.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
17%8 sacksTFL rate
22%11 TFLHurry rate
10%5 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
63%8 of 14 pressures50 tackles · 11 for loss · 8.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 5.4 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Joe Moorhead
Pass share
38.9%
323 pass / 507 run
Plays / game
63.8
13 games
Team sack rate
7.3%
357 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2018
50 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Mississippi State, 19 sacks — drafted at #26 overall by the Washington Redskins.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dan Mullen → Joe Moorhead. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Washington RedskinsEntering 8th NFL season
Washington RedskinsEntering 8th NFL season
