Ryan White: S · Vanderbilt · #14.
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Ryan White
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Fourth year in the same secondary at Vanderbilt. One game to point at: 13 tackles against Alabama — Week 4, 2017.
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
60 tackles. 3 passes defended. 2 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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Vanderbilt | 60 | 41 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 2 | -- |
| 2016 | Vanderbilt | 75 | 49 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 6 | -- | 2 |
| 2015 | Vanderbilt | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| 2014 | Vanderbilt | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 135 | 90 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 9 | 3 | 2 |
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 28-6@ Middle Tennessee | 6 | 6 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-0vs Alabama A&M | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 14-7vs No. 18 Kansas State | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 0-59vs No. 1 Alabama | 13 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 13 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 24-38@ No. 21 Florida | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-45vs No. 5 Georgia | 4 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 35-57@ Ole Miss | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 27-34@ South Carolina | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-17vs Western Kentucky | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 21-44vs Kentucky | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 17-45vs Missouri | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-24@ Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 60 | 41 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3 |
Week 3 · 2017
W 14-7
vs Kansas State
1 interception · 0.5 tackles for loss · 4 tackles
A close one, won by 7 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
5%3 pass breakupsInterceptions
2interceptionsTackle volume
60tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%4 TFL60 tackles · 4 for loss · 3 pass breakups · 2 interceptions.
4 seasons under Derek Mason — 18-31 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 5.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 4.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Derek Mason
Pass share
54.2%
403 pass / 341 run
Plays / game
62.0
12 games
Team sack rate
4.1%
435 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
60 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Vanderbilt, 135 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: James Franklin → Derek Mason. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
