Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason
SMU paired 13 primary output with 26.5 efficiency.
Player Stats
Cale Sanders Jr. 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
- 125
- TFL
- 12
- Sacks
- 1
- QB hurries
- 5
- Passes defended
- 16
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Postseason | Fresno State | 8 | 3 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 37.6 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Fresno State | 8 | 17 | 1 | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 37.6 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Fresno State | 10 | 31 | 1 | 0 | - | 6 | 0 | 35.4 |
| 2023 Postseason | SMU | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 50.2 |
| 2023 Regular Season | SMU | 10 | 25 | 2 | 0 | - | 6 | 0 | 50.2 |
| 2024 Postseason | SMU | 12 | 2 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 61.6 |
| 2024 Regular Season | SMU | 12 | 43 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 61.6 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2024 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 26.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2024 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Fresno State, SMU.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Stanford
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2024 Postseason · SMU
Games
12
Havoc Plays / G
1.1
Efficiency
26.5
Usage
6.4
Consistency
66.6
Best Game by takeover score
Stanford
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Penn State: 1. Houston Christian: 0. Nevada: 1. BYU: 1. TCU: 1. Louisville: 1. Stanford: 3. Duke: 0.5. Pittsburgh: 1. Boston College: 1. Virginia: 0.5. California: 2
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. Penn State: 2 by 18.3. Houston Christian: 1 by 4.2. Nevada: 3 by 22.5. BYU: 6 by 35. TCU: 6 by 35. Louisville: 5 by 30.8. Stanford: 2 by 38.3. Duke: 3 by 17.5. Pittsburgh: 6 by 35. Boston College: 4 by 26.7. Virginia: 2 by 13.3. California: 5 by 40.8
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.1 · Games = 10 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 2 · -0.1 vs Wins
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