Nathan Bazata: DL · Iowa · #99.
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Nathan Bazata
Wins the gap play after play. Second year in the same defensive front at Iowa. A game that shows it: 9 tackles against Boston College — 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
51 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 6.5 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.
KCCI Oct 28
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul Oct 27Swipe 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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-3vs Wyoming | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 44-41@ Iowa State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-14vs North Texas | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 19-21vs No. 4 Penn State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-17@ Michigan State | 8 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 45-16vs Illinois | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-17@ Northwestern | 6 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 17-10vs Minnesota | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 55-24vs No. 3 Ohio State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 14-38@ No. 6 Wisconsin | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 15-24vs Purdue | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 56-14@ Nebraska | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 27-20vs Boston College | 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 51 | 22 | 6.5 | 3.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
13%6 TFLSack rate
6%3 sacksHurry rate
2%1 hurry51 tackles · 6.5 for loss · 3 sacks.
2 seasons under Kirk Ferentz — 16-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 5.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirk Ferentz
Pass share
42.9%
355 pass / 473 run
Plays / game
63.7
13 games
Team sack rate
6.7%
374 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
51 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Iowa, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Kirk Ferentz.
