Charlie Sadler

Head coach, Northern Illinois, 1991 to 1995

College career18-37

Program liftNo. 1,084tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

0-2 against his rivals. Just 1-3 against Joe Peace.

Rivalry record

0-2

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

9-11

45.0% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Toledo0-20%

The toughest matchup

vs. Joe Peace1-3

4 meetings, 1991–1995

’91 L’93 L’94 W’95 L

25% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

0-3 0.0%

National Program

1-9 10.0%

Regional Program

11-23 32.4%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1991-1995) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least1Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 1 — the draft class following his 1995 season is missing from this table entirely; and his 1991, 1992 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 1 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1994	R3.19	LeShon Johnson	Running Back	Green Bay Packers	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.