Parker Hesse: DE · Iowa · #40.
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Parker Hesse
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Four seasons in the Iowa defensive front to date. On tape: 7 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Indiana, Week 7, 2018.
Play style
No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
58 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 9.5 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
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 33-7vs Northern Illinois | 4 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 2 | W 13-3vs Iowa State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-14vs Northern Iowa | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 17-28vs No. 18 Wisconsin | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 48-31@ Minnesota | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 42-16@ Indiana | 7 | 6 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 23-0vs Maryland | 5 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-30@ No. 17 Penn State | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 36-38@ Purdue | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-14vs Northwestern | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 63-0@ Illinois | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-28vs Nebraska | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 27-22vs No. 18 Mississippi State | 6 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 58 | 29 | 9.5 | 4.0 | — | 1 |
Week 1 · 2018
W 33-7
2 sacks · 2 tackles for loss · 4 tackles
Dominant 26-point win at home against Northern Illinois.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
7%4 sacksTFL rate
16%10 TFLHurry rate
5%3 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
57%4 of 7 pressures58 tackles · 9.5 for loss · 4 sacks.
4 seasons under Kirk Ferentz — 37-16 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirk Ferentz
Pass share
45.7%
407 pass / 484 run
Plays / game
68.5
13 games
Team sack rate
3.7%
436 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
58 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Iowa, 12 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Kirk Ferentz.
