Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season
South Florida paired 12.5 primary output with 49.3 efficiency.
Player Stats
Nico Sawtelle College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 112
- TFL
- 12
- Sacks
- 3.5
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 2
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Regular Season | South Florida | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2016 Regular Season | South Florida | 8 | 16 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 39.7 |
| 2017 Postseason | South Florida | 12 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 54.6 |
| 2017 Regular Season | South Florida | 12 | 48 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 54.6 |
| 2018 Regular Season | South Florida | 6 | 42 | 7.5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 78.9 |
| 2019 Regular Season | South Florida | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
Player insights
Supporting note
2018 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 49.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2019 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Illinois
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 83.3th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
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2018 Regular Season · South Florida
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
2.1
Efficiency
49.3
Usage
12
Consistency
66.4
Best Game by takeover score
Illinois
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Elon: 3.5. Georgia Tech: 1. Illinois: 3. East Carolina: 1.5. Massachusetts: 1. Tulsa: 2.5
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Elon: 4 by 51.7. Georgia Tech: 5 by 30.8. Illinois: 13 by 80. East Carolina: 7 by 44.2. Massachusetts: 6 by 35. Tulsa: 7 by 54.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half2.5 · Games = 3 · +0.8 vs Second Half
Second Half1.7 · Games = 3 · -0.8 vs First Half
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