Trent Tanking: LB · Kansas State · #58.
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Trent Tanking
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. Second year in the same linebacker corps at Kansas State. One game to point at: 13 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against TCU — Week 7, 2017.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
97 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Kansas State | 97 | 71 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 4 | -- |
| 2016 | Kansas State | 19 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 |
| Career | 116 | 84 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 5 | 1 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 55-19vs Central Arkansas | 9 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 55-7vs Charlotte | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-14@ Vanderbilt | 10 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 33-20vs Baylor | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 34-40@ Texas | 11 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-26vs No. 6 TCU | 13 | 10 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 13 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 35-42vs No. 9 Oklahoma | 10 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 30-20@ Kansas | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 42-35@ Texas Tech | 10 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-28vs No. 23 West Virginia | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 45-40@ No. 10 Oklahoma State | 9 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 20-19vs Iowa State | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 35-17vs UCLA | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 97 | 71 | 3.5 | 0.0 | — | 4 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
97tackles this seasonTFL rate
4%4 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksPD rate
4%4 pass breakups97 tackles · 3.5 for loss.
2 seasons under Bill Snyder — 17-9 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 7.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 9.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 7.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Snyder
Pass share
34.5%
270 pass / 513 run
Plays / game
60.2
13 games
Team sack rate
7.9%
304 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
97 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Kansas State, 116 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bill Snyder.
