Ryan Anderson: LB · Alabama · #22.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Ryan Anderson
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Second year in the Alabama linebacker corps. The first career honor came in 2016: All-SEC. One game to point at: 9 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Arkansas — Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
61 tackles. 3 passes defended. 1 interception. 18.5 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.
Yahoo Sports Oct 28
Heavy Oct 28
Saturday Down South Oct 24
The Tuscaloosa News Oct 15Swipe 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
2016 season · 15 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-6vs No. 20 USC | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-10vs Western Kentucky | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-43@ No. 19 Ole Miss | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 48-0vs Kent State | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-6vs Kentucky | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 49-30@ No. 16 Arkansas | 9 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 49-10@ No. 9 Tennessee | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 33-14vs No. 6 Texas A&M | 4 | 4 | 3.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 10 | W 10-0@ No. 15 LSU | 6 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 51-3vs Mississippi State | 4 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-3vs Chattanooga | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 30-12vs No. 16 Auburn | 6 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 54-16vs No. 15 Florida | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 24-7vs No. 4 Washington | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 31-35vs No. 3 Clemson | 7 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 61 | 31 | 18.5 | 8.5 | 1 | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
61tackles this seasonTFL rate
30%18 TFLSack rate
14%8 sacksPD rate
5%3 pass breakups61 tackles · 18.5 for loss · 8.5 sacks · 1 interception.
2 seasons under Nick Saban — 26-3 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 15 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 5.0 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-79g | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.2 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Nick Saban
Pass share
39.8%
417 pass / 630 run
Plays / game
69.8
15 games
Team sack rate
5.3%
449 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Two seasons at Alabama, 61 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — drafted at #49 overall by the Washington Redskins.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SEC · 1ST TEAM
All-SEC 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Nick Saban.
Next stop · NFL
Washington RedskinsEntering 10th NFL season
Washington RedskinsEntering 10th NFL season
