Tyler Lancaster: DL · Northwestern · #1.
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Tyler Lancaster
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Second year in the same defensive front at Northwestern. A game that shows it: 5 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Nebraska — Week 10, 2017.
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
40 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 10.5 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 | Northwestern | 40 | 14 | 10.5 | 2.0 | 1 |
| 2016 | Northwestern | 28 | 14 | 3.5 | 0.0 | -- |
| Career | 68 | 28 | 14.0 | 2.0 | 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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-20vs Nevada | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 17-41@ Duke | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 49-7vs Bowling Green | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-33@ No. 10 Wisconsin | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-31vs No. 4 Penn State | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 37-21@ Maryland | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 17-10vs Iowa | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 39-31vs No. 16 Michigan State | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-24@ Nebraska | 5 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 23-13vs Purdue | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 39-0vs Minnesota | 3 | 0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-7@ Illinois | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 24-23vs Kentucky | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 14 | 10.5 | 2.0 | — | 1 |
Week 10 · 2017
W 31-24
at Nebraska
2 tackles for loss · 5 tackles · 1 solo tackle
A close one, won by 7 on the road.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
26%10 TFLSack rate
5%2 sacksHurry rate
8%3 hurries40 tackles · 10.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under Pat Fitzgerald — 17-9 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Fitzgerald
Pass share
46.6%
460 pass / 528 run
Plays / game
76.0
13 games
Team sack rate
6.7%
522 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
40 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Northwestern, 2 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Pat Fitzgerald.
