Poona Ford: DL · Texas · #95.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Poona Ford
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Played for two head coaches in two seasons at Texas. First career honor, 2017: All-Big 12. One game to point at: 7 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against TCU — Week 10, 2017.
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
34 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 8 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.
Yahoo Sports Oct 31
Saturday Down South Oct 25Yahoo Sports Oct 20Swipe 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 | L 41-51vs Maryland | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 56-0vs San José State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 24-27@ No. 4 USC | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-7@ Iowa State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 40-34vs Kansas State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 24-29vs No. 12 Oklahoma | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-13vs No. 10 Oklahoma State | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 9 | W 38-7@ Baylor | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-24@ No. 10 TCU | 7 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 11 | W 42-27vs Kansas | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-14@ No. 24 West Virginia | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 23-27vs Texas Tech | 3 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 33-16vs Missouri | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 34 | 22 | 8.0 | 1.5 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
24%8 TFLSack rate
4%2 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries34 tackles · 8 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tom Herman
Pass share
49.7%
496 pass / 501 run
Plays / game
76.7
13 games
Team sack rate
6.1%
543 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Two seasons at Texas, 2 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2017) — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Charlie Strong → Tom Herman. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
