Tobenna Okeke: DE · Fresno State · #56.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Tobenna Okeke
Turns pressure into sacks — pressures become finishes. Played for two head coaches at Fresno State: Eric Kiesau and Jeff Tedford. A game that shows it: 6 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against UNLV — Week 9, 2017.
Play style
Turns pressure into sacks — when he gets there, he finishes.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
38 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 11 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 | Fresno State | 38 | 22 | 11.0 | 6.0 | 1 |
| 2016 | Fresno State | 51 | 22 | 3.0 | 3.0 | -- |
| Career | 89 | 44 | 14.0 | 9.0 | 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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 10-41@ No. 1 Alabama | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 16-48@ No. 6 Washington | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 41-21vs Nevada | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-10@ San José State | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 38-0vs New Mexico | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 16-26vs UNLV | 6 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 10 | W 20-13vs BYU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 31-21@ Hawai'i | 6 | 5 | 3.0 | 3.0 | — | 0 | 3 sacks |
| Wk 12 | W 13-7@ Wyoming | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-17vs No. 25 Boise State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-17@ Boise State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 33-27vs Houston | 5 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 38 | 22 | 11.0 | 6.0 | — | 1 |
Bowl · 2017
W 33-27
vs Houston · neutral site
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 5 tackles
A close one, won by 6 at a neutral site.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
16%6 sacksTFL rate
29%11 TFLHurry rate
3%1 hurryPressure-to-sack conversion
86%6 of 7 pressures38 tackles · 11 for loss · 6 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Tedford
Pass share
46.7%
437 pass / 499 run
Plays / game
66.9
14 games
Team sack rate
2.2%
452 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
38 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Fresno State, 9 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Tim DeRuyter, Eric Kiesau, and Jeff Tedford. Multi-era developmental context.
