Senior defensive back on BYU's 2019 roster.
6′1″ · 200 lb · West Richland, WA
Sawyer Powell
This is his third year in the same secondary at BYU. One game to point at: 8 tackles against Tennessee — Week 2, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at BYU, 44 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kalani Sitake.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Kalani Sitake — 23-16 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kalani Sitake
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2019
W 30–27
vs USC
1 TOT
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.
With Z. Wilson — 280 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 64.2 · 10 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD · J. Oldroyd — 43 LONG · 75 PCT · 12 PTS
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 12-30vs Utah | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 29-26@ Tennessee | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 30-27vs USC | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-28@ Toledo | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 23-27@ South Florida | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-10vs Idaho State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 56-24@ Massachusetts | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 34-38vs Hawai'i | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
20 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.