Tashon Smallwood: DL · Arizona State · #90.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tashon Smallwood
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Second year in the same defensive front at Arizona State. On tape: 6 tackles and 0.5 sacks against Washington, Week 7, 2017.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
37 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 8 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.
Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Arizona State | 37 | 20 | 8.0 | 4.0 | 1 |
| 2016 | Arizona State | 28 | 21 | 9.0 | 2.5 | -- |
| Career | 65 | 41 | 17.0 | 6.5 | 1 |
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 · 13 games
Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-31vs New Mexico State | 5 | 4 | 4.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 2 | L 20-30vs San Diego State | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 45-52@ Texas Tech | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-35vs No. 24 Oregon | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-34@ Stanford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 13-7vs No. 5 Washington | 6 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 8 | W 30-10@ Utah | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-48vs No. 21 USC | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 41-30vs Colorado | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 37-44@ UCLA | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 40-24@ Oregon State | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-30vs Arizona | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 31-52vs NC State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 37 | 20 | 8.0 | 4.0 | — | 1 |
Week 1 · 2017
W 37-31
2 sacks · 4 tackles for loss · 5 tackles
Edged out New Mexico State at home in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
22%8 TFLSack rate
11%4 sacksHurry rate
5%2 hurries37 tackles · 8 for loss · 4 sacks.
2 seasons under Todd Graham — 12-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Todd Graham
Pass share
43.0%
416 pass / 551 run
Plays / game
74.4
13 games
Team sack rate
9.1%
464 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
37 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Arizona State, 6 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Todd Graham.
