Player Dossier

2019-2024

Western Michigan

Boone Bonnema

LB • 6'3" • 235 lbs • Zeeland, MI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Boone Bonnema shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

24%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

43

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

21

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

65

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Western Michigan

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Western Michigan
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Wisconsin

Player Story

Boone Bonnema built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a linebacker from Zeeland, MI wearing No. 22, spending time with Western Michigan. The clearest part of Boone Bonnema's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.8267

Zeeland East · Zeeland, MI

Committed To
Western Michigan
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Boone Bonnema, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Western Michigan. Boone Bonnema shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
62
TFL
5.5
Sacks
3.5
QB hurries
4

Quick Answers

Boone Bonnema quick answers

Latest team and position
Western Michigan · LB
Career Tackles
62
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 26 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Western Michigan
Top game
Wisconsin
Recruit profile
3-star · Zeeland East · Western Michigan
High school pipeline
Zeeland East · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 22 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
26 tackles · LB 492nd (top 41%) · Mid-American 143rd (top 27%) · National 1,601st (top 27%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan11-0--036.1
2020 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan11-0--037
2021 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan612-01-012.2
2022 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan34-0--037.7
2023 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan7183.52.52-062.6
2024 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan826211-028.2

Related Context

Boone Bonnema played LB for Western Michigan. Across 6 tracked seasons, Boone Bonnema recorded 62 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Western Michigan.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Western Michigan paired 8 primary output with 22.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 18.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Wisconsin

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Western Michigan

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

18.5

Usage

4.3

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Wisconsin

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wisconsin: 2. Ohio State: 0. Bethune-Cookman: 0. Marshall: 0. Ball State: 0. Kent State: 2. Central Michigan: 0. Eastern Michigan: 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. Wisconsin: 9 by 57.5. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2. Bethune-Cookman: 3 by 12.5. Marshall: 2 by 8.3. Ball State: 3 by 12.5. Kent State: 5 by 40.8. Central Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Eastern Michigan: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Wisconsin

Best efficiency game

57.5 vs Wisconsin

Result
Sat 11/30vs Eastern MichiganW 26-1811000
Wed 11/20@ Central MichiganL 14-1622000
Sat 10/26vs Kent StateSplash gameW 52-2153110
Sat 10/5@ Ball StateW 45-4232000
Sat 9/28@ MarshallL 20-2721000
Sat 9/14vs Bethune-CookmanW 59-3130000
Sat 9/7@ Ohio StateL 0-5611000
Sat 8/31@ WisconsinSplash gameL 14-2895100

Player Story

Boone Bonnema story

Boone Bonnema built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a linebacker from Zeeland, MI wearing No. 22, spending time with Western Michigan. The clearest part of Boone Bonnema's career was his defensive production: 62 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, and 3.5 sacks across 26 career games in the available record. That gives Boone Bonnema's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Western Michigan

    2019-2024

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan04.20.5
2020 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan04.20.80
2021 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan1102.51
2022 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan05.50.9-1
2023 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan822.29.68
2024 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan418.54.3-4

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Wisconsin

Week 1 · L 14-28

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

85.8 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 85.8 takeover score.

#2

vs St. Francis (PA)

Week 1 · W 35-17

3

Havoc Plays

80.8 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Kent State

Week 9 · W 52-21 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

72.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 72.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Toledo

Week 4 · L 31-49 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

69.2 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Ball State

Week 5 · W 42-24 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

60.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Western Michigan

8 primary output · 22.2 efficiency · 9.6 usage

62.6

#2

2022 Regular Season · Western Michigan

37.7

0 primary · 5.5 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2020 Regular Season · Western Michigan

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

5

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games