Thomas Brown: LB · Wake Forest · #26.
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Thomas Brown
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. On tape: 8 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Florida State, Week 7, 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
65 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 8.5 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.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Wake Forest | 65 | 40 | 8.5 | 4.0 | 4 |
| Career | 65 | 40 | 8.5 | 4.0 | 4 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 7-3vs Tulane | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 2 | W 24-14@ Duke | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-21vs Delaware | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 33-28@ Indiana | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 16-33@ NC State | 8 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 28-9vs Syracuse | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-17@ No. 14 Florida State | 8 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 13-21vs Army | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 27-20vs Virginia | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 12-44@ No. 5 Louisville | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-35vs No. 5 Clemson | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-17vs Boston College | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
 Bowl | W 34-26vs No. 23 Temple | 7 | 4 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 65 | 40 | 8.5 | 4.0 | — | 4 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
65tackles this seasonTFL rate
13%8 TFLSack rate
6%4 sacksPD rate
6%4 pass breakups65 tackles · 8.5 for loss · 4 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 6.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 5.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dave Clawson
Pass share
40.6%
353 pass / 516 run
Plays / game
66.8
13 games
Team sack rate
10.1%
397 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Wake Forest, 65 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Jim Grobe → Dave Clawson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
