Player Dossier

2015-2018

UCLA

Rick Wade

DL • 6'6" • 275 lbs • Santa Margarita, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Rick Wade shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

22%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

36

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

16

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

58

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
UCLA
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: BYU

Player Story

Rick Wade built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a defensive lineman from Santa Margarita, CA wearing No. 90, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Rick Wade's career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2015 · Rating 0.8883

Santa Margarita Catholic · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

Committed To
UCLA
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2015

Rick Wade, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · UCLA. Rick Wade shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
75
TFL
11
Sacks
3

Quick Answers

Rick Wade quick answers

Latest team and position
UCLA · DL
Career Tackles
75
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 27 games
Best season
2017 Postseason · UCLA
Top game
BYU
Recruit profile
3-star · Santa Margarita Catholic · UCLA
High school pipeline
Santa Margarita Catholic · 44 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 90 · Junior
2018 Tackles rank
20 tackles · DL 307th (top 39%) · Pac-12 173rd (top 34%) · National 1,960th (top 34%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA82131--031.4
2017 PostseasonUCLA103-0--053.2
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA103151--053.2
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA92031--031.2

Related Context

Rick Wade played DL for UCLA. Across 4 tracked seasons, Rick Wade recorded 75 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with UCLA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Postseason

UCLA paired 6 primary output with 20.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 13.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2018 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Cincinnati

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Regular Season · UCLA

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

13.7

Usage

4

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Cincinnati

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Cincinnati: 2.5. Oklahoma: 0. Fresno State: 0. Washington: 0. Arizona: 0. Utah: 0.5. Oregon: 1. Arizona State: 0. USC: 0

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. Cincinnati: 2 by 33.3. Oklahoma: 1 by 4.2. Fresno State: 4 by 16.7. Washington: 3 by 12.5. Arizona: 1 by 4.2. Utah: 2 by 13.3. Oregon: 1 by 14.2. Arizona State: 4 by 16.7. USC: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 7 · +0.6 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Cincinnati

Best efficiency game

33.3 vs Cincinnati

Result
Sat 11/17vs USCW 34-2722000
Sat 11/10@ Arizona StateL 28-3143000
Sat 11/3@ OregonL 21-4211100
Sat 10/27vs UtahL 10-41200.5000
Sun 10/21vs ArizonaW 31-3010000
Sat 10/6vs WashingtonL 24-3133000
Sun 9/16vs Fresno StateL 14-3843000
Sat 9/8@ OklahomaL 21-4910000
Sat 9/1vs CincinnatiSplash gameL 17-26211.5010

Player Story

Rick Wade story

Rick Wade built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a defensive lineman from Santa Margarita, CA wearing No. 90, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Rick Wade's career was his defensive production: 75 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, and 3 sacks across 27 career games in the available record. That gives Rick Wade's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    UCLA

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20152016201720172018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA0
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA415.94.24
2017 PostseasonUCLA620.25.82
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA620.25.80
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA413.74-2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ BYU

Week 3 · W 17-14

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

79.4 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Texas A&M

Week 1 · W 45-44

2

Havoc Plays

75.5 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75.5 takeover score.

#3

vs Cincinnati

Week 1 · L 17-26

2.5

Havoc Plays

72.8 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 72.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Stanford

Week 4 · L 34-58 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

59.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.5 takeover score.

#5

vs Arizona State

Week 11 · W 44-37 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

51.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Postseason · UCLA

6 primary output · 20.2 efficiency · 5.8 usage

53.2

#2

2017 Regular Season · UCLA

53.2

6 primary · 20.2 efficiency · 5.8 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · UCLA

31.4

4 primary · 15.9 efficiency · 4.2 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games