Richie Brown: LB · Mississippi State · #39.
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Richie Brown
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Three seasons in the Mississippi State linebacker corps to date. A game that shows it: 14 tackles against Auburn — Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
102 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 4 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Mississippi State | 102 | 52 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 2 | -- |
| 2015 | Mississippi State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| 2014 | Mississippi State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Career | 102 | 52 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 2 | 4 |
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
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 20-21vs South Alabama | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 27-14vs South Carolina | 10 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 20-23@ No. 20 LSU | 6 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 47-35@ Massachusetts | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-38vs Auburn | 14 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 21-28@ BYU | 9 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 38-40@ Kentucky | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 56-41vs Samford | 13 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-28vs No. 7 Texas A&M | 8 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 3-51@ No. 1 Alabama | 6 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 42-58vs Arkansas | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 55-20@ Ole Miss | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 17-16vs Miami (OH) | 9 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 102 | 52 | 4.0 | 1.5 | — | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
102tackles this seasonTFL rate
4%4 TFLSack rate
1%2 sacksPD rate
2%2 pass breakups102 tackles · 4 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
3 seasons under Dan Mullen — 25-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 9.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 5.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 8.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 7.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Mullen
Pass share
44.3%
411 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
71.4
13 games
Team sack rate
4.3%
440 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
102 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Mississippi State, 102 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dan Mullen.
