Tim Ward: DE · Old Dominion · #2.
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Tim Ward
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Rated a two-star prospect, with four seasons of snaps at Old Dominion since. One game to point at: 5 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Virginia Tech — Week 4, 2018.
Play style
No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
41 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 9 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Old Dominion | 41 | 21 | 9.0 | 3.5 | 3 | -- |
| 2017 | Old Dominion | 37 | 19 | 9.0 | 3.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2016 | Old Dominion | 25 | 9 | 6.5 | 5.0 | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Old Dominion | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 103 | 49 | 24.5 | 11.5 | 4 | 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
2018 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-52@ Liberty | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-28vs Florida International | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 25-28@ Charlotte | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 49-35vs No. 13 Virginia Tech | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 35-37@ East Carolina | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 6 | L 33-52@ Florida Atlantic | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-42vs Marshall | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 37-34@ Western Kentucky | 4 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-51vs Middle Tennessee | 7 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 11 | W 34-31vs North Texas | 5 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 41 | 21 | 9.0 | 3.5 | — | 3 |
Week 11 · 2018
W 34-31
vs North Texas
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 5 tackles
Edged out North Texas at home in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
9%4 sacksTFL rate
22%9 TFLHurry rate
7%3 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
54%4 of 6 pressures41 tackles · 9 for loss · 3.5 sacks.
4 seasons under Bobby Wilder — 24-25 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.2 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 5.3 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bobby Wilder
Pass share
53.6%
478 pass / 414 run
Plays / game
74.3
12 games
Team sack rate
6.3%
526 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
41 tackles in 10 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Old Dominion, 12 sacks — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bobby Wilder.
