Player Dossier

2021-2025

Northwestern

Garner Wallace

DB • 6'4" • 220 lbs • Pickerington, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Garner Wallace shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Northwestern

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Northwestern
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tulane

Player Story

Garner Wallace built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pickerington, OH wearing No. 18, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Garner Wallace's career was his defensive...

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Garner Wallace, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Northwestern. Garner Wallace shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
62
TFL
1
Sacks
0.5
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Garner Wallace quick answers

Latest team and position
Northwestern · DB
Career Tackles
62
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 20 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Northwestern
Top game
Tulane
High school pipeline
Gaffney · 14 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 18 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
45 tackles · DB 173rd (top 18%) · Big Ten 93rd (top 12%) · National 739th (top 12%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonNorthwestern39-0--043.7
2023 Regular SeasonNorthwestern10-0--033.3
2024 Regular SeasonNorthwestern58-0-1016.6
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern112-0--041.1
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern114310.5-1041.1

Related Context

Garner Wallace played DB for Northwestern. Across 5 tracked seasons, Garner Wallace recorded 62 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Northwestern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Northwestern paired 0 primary output with 12.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 19.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tulane

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Northwestern

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

19.3

Usage

4.3

Consistency

9.1

Best Game by takeover score

Tulane

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Central Michigan: 0. Tulane: 1. Western Illinois: 0. UCLA: 1. UL Monroe: 0. Penn State: 0. Purdue: 0. Nebraska: 0. Michigan: 0. Minnesota: 0.5. Illinois: 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. Central Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Tulane: 8 by 43.3. Western Illinois: 1 by 4.2. UCLA: 3 by 22.5. UL Monroe: 6 by 25. Penn State: 4 by 16.7. Purdue: 1 by 4.2. Nebraska: 5 by 20.8. Michigan: 6 by 25. Minnesota: 4 by 21.7. Illinois: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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Wins0.2 · Games = 7 · -0.0 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Tulane

Best efficiency game

43.3 vs Tulane

Result
Fri 12/26vs Central MichiganW 34-721000
Sun 11/30@ IllinoisL 13-2054000
Sat 11/22vs MinnesotaW 38-35410.5000
Sat 11/15vs MichiganL 22-2466000
Sat 10/25@ NebraskaL 21-2853000
Sat 10/18vs PurdueW 19-010000
Sat 10/11@ Penn StateW 22-2143000
Sat 10/4vs UL MonroeW 42-765000
Sat 9/27vs UCLAW 17-14300.500.500
Fri 9/5vs Western IllinoisW 42-711000
Sat 8/30@ TulaneL 3-2385001

Player Story

Garner Wallace story

Garner Wallace built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pickerington, OH wearing No. 18, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Garner Wallace's career was his defensive production: 62 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 20 career games in the available record. That gives Garner Wallace's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Northwestern

    2021-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNorthwestern0
2022 Regular SeasonNorthwestern012.52.20
2023 Regular SeasonNorthwestern0000
2024 Regular SeasonNorthwestern18.71.31
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern2.519.34.31.5
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern2.519.34.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 45 Tulane

Week 1 · L 3-23

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

66.1 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 66.1 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 98 UCLA

Week 5 · W 17-14 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

65.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 65.6 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 70 Minnesota

Week 13 · W 38-35 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

43.6 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 43.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Maryland

Week 7 · W 37-10 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 131 UL Monroe

Week 6 · W 42-7

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Havoc Plays

26.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 26.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Northwestern

0 primary output · 12.5 efficiency · 2.2 usage

43.7

#2

2025 Postseason · Northwestern

41.1

2.5 primary · 19.3 efficiency · 4.3 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Northwestern

41.1

2.5 primary · 19.3 efficiency · 4.3 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games