William Lee: DT · Northern Illinois · #90.
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William Lee
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Arrived as a two-star recruit; two seasons of production at Northern Illinois since. A game that shows it: 4 tackles against Toledo — Week 10, 2017.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
19 tackles. 0 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 | Northern Illinois | 19 | 8 | 3.5 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | Northern Illinois | 18 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| Career | 37 | 14 | 4.5 | 2.5 |
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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 20-23vs Boston College | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-10vs Eastern Illinois | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 21-17@ Nebraska | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 28-34@ No. 19 San Diego State | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-3vs Kent State | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 14-13@ Buffalo | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 30-27vs Eastern Michigan | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-27@ Toledo | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 35-31vs Western Michigan | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-31@ Central Michigan | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 8 | 3.5 | 2.5 | — | 0 |
Week 2 · 2017
W 38-10
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 3 tackles
Dominant 28-point win at home against Eastern Illinois.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
18%4 TFLSack rate
13%2 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries19 tackles · 3.5 for loss · 2.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Rod Carey — 13-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rod Carey
Pass share
42.7%
405 pass / 543 run
Plays / game
72.9
13 games
Team sack rate
5.7%
439 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Northern Illinois, 37 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Rod Carey.
