Travon Blanchard: DB · Baylor · #48.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Travon Blanchard
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Played for two head coaches in three seasons at Baylor. On tape: 15 tackles against West Virginia, Week 14, 2016.
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
73 tackles. 5 passes defended. 1 interception. 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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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 · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 38-10@ Rice | 9 | 7 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 4 | W 35-24vs Oklahoma State | 11 | 8 | 4.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | 4.5 TFL |
| Wk 5 | W 45-42@ Iowa State | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 49-7vs Kansas | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 34-35@ Texas | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | L 22-62vs TCU | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-45@ No. 9 Oklahoma | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 21-42vs Kansas State | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 35-54vs Texas Tech | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 21-24@ No. 14 West Virginia | 15 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 15 tackles |
 Bowl | W 31-12vs Boise State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 73 | 48 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 1 | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
7%5 pass breakupsInterceptions
1interceptionsTackle volume
73tackles this seasonTFL rate
12%9 TFL73 tackles · 9 for loss · 1.5 sacks · 5 pass breakups · 1 interception.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 6.5 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Road5g | 8.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 6.4 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 6.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jim Grobe
Pass share
43.4%
479 pass / 625 run
Plays / game
84.9
13 games
Team sack rate
5.1%
506 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
73 tackles in 11 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Baylor, 73 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Art Briles → Jim Grobe. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
