Senior defensive end on Houston's 2018 roster.
6′5″ · 265 lb · Round Rock, TX
Recruiting
SDE recruit
No. 936 nationally · Signed with Houston
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive end on Houston's roster.
Zach Vaughan
Zach Vaughan has been at Houston through two head coaches in three seasons. One game to point at: 3 tackles against Temple — Week 11, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Houston — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Tom Herman → Major Applewhite. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: solo tackles (5th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Willie Fritz
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-27@ Rice | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-18vs Arizona | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 41-26vs Tulsa | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 42-20@ East Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 57-36vs South Florida | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 31-45@ SMU | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 49-59vs Temple | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 48-17vs Tulane | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 31-52@ Memphis | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
15 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 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.