Vita Vea: DL · Washington · #50.
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Vita Vea
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Second year in the Washington defensive front. One game to point at: 6 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Utah — Week 12, 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
44 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 5.5 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 | Washington | 44 | 31 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 4 |
| 2016 | Washington | 39 | 22 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 1 |
| Career | 83 | 53 | 12.0 | 8.5 | 5 |
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 1 | W 30-14@ Rutgers | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 63-7vs Montana | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-16vs Fresno State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-10@ Colorado | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 42-7@ Oregon State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-7vs California | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 44-23vs UCLA | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-3vs Oregon | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-30@ Stanford | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 33-30vs Utah | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 41-14vs No. 14 Washington State | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | L 28-35vs No. 9 Penn State | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 44 | 31 | 5.5 | 3.5 | — | 4 |
Week 9 · 2017
W 44-23
vs UCLA
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 3 tackles
Dominant 21-point win at home against UCLA.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
12%6 TFLSack rate
8%4 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries44 tackles · 5.5 for loss · 3.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Chris Petersen, all run-leaning offenses — 22-5 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Petersen
Pass share
42.6%
346 pass / 466 run
Plays / game
62.5
13 games
Team sack rate
5.3%
379 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
44 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 Washington, 8 sacks — drafted at #12 overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Chris Petersen.
Next stop · NFL
Tampa Bay BuccaneersEntering 9th NFL season
Tampa Bay BuccaneersEntering 9th NFL season
