Ryan McAleenan: LB · UNLV · #56.
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Ryan McAleenan
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Second year in the UNLV linebacker corps. One game to point at: 14 tackles against UCLA — Week 2, 2016.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
89 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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.
Las Vegas Review-Journal Oct 21Swipe 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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-13vs Jackson State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 21-42@ UCLA | 14 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 3 | L 21-44@ Central Michigan | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 30-33vs Idaho | 7 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 45-20vs Fresno State | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-26@ San Diego State | 9 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 41-38@ Hawai'i | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 23-42vs Colorado State | 8 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-30@ San José State | 9 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 69-66vs Wyoming | 7 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 25-42@ No. 22 Boise State | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-45vs Nevada | 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 89 | 42 | 3.5 | 0.5 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
89tackles this seasonTFL rate
4%4 TFLSack rate
1%0 sacksPD rate
3%3 pass breakups89 tackles · 3.5 for loss · 0.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Tony Sanchez — 7-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 8.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Road6g | 7.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 7.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 7.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Sanchez
Pass share
36.2%
293 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
67.5
12 games
Team sack rate
3.2%
309 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
89 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at UNLV, 89 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Bobby Hauck → Tony Sanchez. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
