Will Geary: DT · Kansas State · #60.
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Will Geary
Wins the gap play after play. Second year in the same defensive front at Kansas State. A game that shows it: 6 tackles and 1.5 sacks against Oklahoma State — Week 12, 2017.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
44 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 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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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Kansas State | 44 | 28 | 9.0 | 4.5 | 1 |
| 2016 | Kansas State | 45 | 30 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 1 |
| Career | 89 | 58 | 16.0 | 5.5 | 2 |
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 55-19vs Central Arkansas | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-14@ Vanderbilt | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 33-20vs Baylor | 3 | 3 | 3.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 6 | L 34-40@ Texas | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-26vs No. 6 TCU | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 35-42vs No. 9 Oklahoma | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 30-20@ Kansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 42-35@ Texas Tech | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-28vs No. 23 West Virginia | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 45-40@ No. 10 Oklahoma State | 6 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 20-19vs Iowa State | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 35-17vs UCLA | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 44 | 28 | 9.0 | 4.5 | — | 1 |
Week 12 · 2017
W 45-40
1.5 sacks · 1.5 tackles for loss · 6 tackles
Edged out Oklahoma State on the road in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
20%9 TFLSack rate
10%4 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries44 tackles · 9 for loss · 4.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Bill Snyder — 17-9 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
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
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 Kansas State, 89 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bill Snyder.
