Nathan Madsen: DE · Fresno State · #91.
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Nathan Madsen
Bull-rushes through contact at the point of attack. The two seasons at Fresno State span two head coaches: Eric Kiesau and Jeff Tedford. A game that shows it: 4 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against UNLV — Week 9, 2017.
Play style
Bull-rushes through contact, winning with size and length at the point of attack.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
16 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 4.5 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.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Fresno State | 16 | 10 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 1 |
| 2016 | Fresno State | 22 | 11 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -- |
| Career | 38 | 21 | 6.0 | 3.5 | 1 |
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 10-41@ No. 1 Alabama | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 16-48@ No. 6 Washington | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 41-21vs Nevada | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-10@ San José State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-3@ San Diego State | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 9 | L 16-26vs UNLV | 4 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 20-13vs BYU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 31-21@ Hawai'i | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 13-7@ Wyoming | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-17vs No. 25 Boise State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 10 | 4.5 | 2.0 | — | 1 |
Week 8 · 2017
W 27-3
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 4 tackles
Dominant 24-point win on the road against San Diego State.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
12%2 sacksTFL rate
28%4 TFLHurry rate
12%2 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
50%2 of 4 pressures16 tackles · 4.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Tedford
Pass share
46.7%
437 pass / 499 run
Plays / game
66.9
14 games
Team sack rate
2.2%
452 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 Fresno State, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Tim DeRuyter, Eric Kiesau, and Jeff Tedford. Multi-era developmental context.
