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Defense · 2024 regular season · FBS

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Top 100

2024 REG

#	Player	Pos	Tm	Solo	Ast	Tot ↓	TFL	Sk	QBH	PD	INT
1	Shaun Dolac	LB	BUF	76	83	159	16.5	4.5	4	4	5
2	Red Murdock	LB	BUF	64	79	143	14.0	2.0	4	0	—
3	Carson Schwesinger	LB	UCLA	90	46	136	8.5	4.0	3	3	2
4	Travion Barnes	LB	FIU	59	70	129	10.5	3.0	4	0	2
5	Isaac Smith	S	MSST	46	81	127	1.5	0.0	0	3	—
6	Stone Blanton	LB	MSST	29	95	124	3.5	0.5	2	3	—
7	Jackson Woodard	LB	UNLV	63	61	124	17.0	3.5	3	9	4
8	Nick Andersen	DB	WAKE	56	66	122	1.0	0.0	1	1	2
9	Bryan McCoy Jr.	LB	AKR	54	66	120	2.5	0.0	3	2	—
10	Jayden McDonald	LB	CONN	47	72	119	9.0	3.5	7	3	1
11	Jay Higgins	LB	IOWA	49	69	118	2.5	1.0	6	5	4
12	Jordan Vincent	S	USU	63	54	117	0.5	0.0	1	2	4
13	Colin Ramos	LB	NAVY	49	68	117	8.0	3.0	4	2	—
14	Jaden Yates	LB	MRSH	33	81	114	7.0	0.5	6	2	—
15	Matthew Salopek	LB	M-OH	53	60	113	7.5	1.0	2	3	3
16	Tyquan King	LB	TEM	54	57	111	6.0	3.0	6	0	—
17	Danny Stutsman	LB	OU	44	66	110	8.0	1.0	3	0	—
18	K.C. Ossai	LB	UL	57	53	110	2.5	0.5	3	3	1
19	Jordan Pollard	LB	SJSU	57	53	110	12.0	2.0	2	3	1
20	Maxen Hook	S	TOL	62	46	108	2.0	0.0	0	4	2
21	Donovan McMillon	DB	PITT	51	57	108	0.0	0.0	0	6	1
22	Aiden Fisher	LB	IU	44	64	108	4.0	1.5	3	4	—
23	Jihaad Campbell	LB	ALA	55	53	108	12.0	5.0	3	2	1
24	Marques Watson-Trent	LB	GASO	45	63	108	7.5	1.5	2	1	—
25	Teddye Buchanan	LB	CAL	40	66	106	11.0	5.0	6	4	—
26	Whit Weeks	LB	LSU	57	48	105	8.0	3.0	4	4	1
27	Dillon Thieneman	DB	PUR	70	34	104	4.5	1.0	0	6	—
28	Jacob Rodriguez	LB	TTU	70	34	104	8.5	5.0	4	3	1
29	Donald Willis	LB	WMU	58	41	99	6.0	1.0	4	4	—
30	Jonas Sanker	S	UVA	66	32	98	9.0	2.0	1	4	1
31	James Djonkam	DL	EMU	34	64	98	11.5	3.0	4	3	—
32	Dariel Djabome	LB	RUTG	48	49	97	7.0	3.0	4	1	—
33	Fred Perry	S	JXST	42	55	97	9.0	3.0	2	2	—
34	Jordan Kwiatkowski	LB	CMU	46	51	97	14.0	0.0	1	1	1
35	Omar Rogers	DB	ECU	40	57	97	5.0	1.0	1	2	1
36	Antonio Carter II	S	JXST	49	48	97	3.0	0.0	1	3	1
37	Jaylen Smith	LB	UNT	41	56	97	7.5	0.0	11	2	1
38	Buom Jock	LB	CSU	40	57	97	2.5	0.0	2	3	1
39	Kyle Louis	LB	PITT	41	55	96	15.5	7.0	9	2	4
40	Kobe Wilson	LB	SMU	44	51	95	5.5	3.0	4	1	2
41	Anthony Wilson	S	WVU	48	47	95	0.0	0.0	0	3	2
42	J.J. Roberts	DB	MRSH	50	44	94	5.0	1.0	3	12	—
43	Tyler Martinez	LB	NMSU	45	49	94	2.5	1.0	0	1	—
44	Luke Murphy	LB	EMU	38	56	94	5.0	0.0	4	0	1
45	Elijah Anderson-Taylor	LB	FIU	41	53	94	2.0	0.5	2	1	—
46	Cody Lindenberg	LB	MINN	45	49	94	5.0	1.0	3	6	1
47	Michael Batton	LB	HOU	44	50	94	7.5	3.0	3	0	1
48	Christian Ellis	S	UNM	39	54	93	3.5	8.0	2	4	1
49	Matt Jones	LB	BAY	64	29	93	9.0	4.0	5	6	—
50	Josiah Trotter	LB	WVU	37	56	93	4.0	0.5	5	2	1
51	Chandler Martin	LB	MEM	52	41	93	14.5	6.5	10	4	1
52	D.J. Woodbury	LB	TEM	60	33	93	5.0	2.0	1	0	1
53	Kyle Jacob	LB	NAVY	46	47	93	4.0	0.0	2	1	3
54	Carson Bruener	LB	WASH	51	42	93	2.0	0.0	1	5	3
55	JoJo Evans Jr.	DB	FIU	52	41	93	2.5	0.0	1	7	2
56	Myles Rowser	DB	ASU	47	46	93	3.5	1.0	2	4	—
57	Blayne Myrick	LB	USA	41	51	92	7.0	2.0	3	2	1
58	Michael Moore	LB	UAB	38	54	92	3.0	0.0	1	2	2
59	Keaton Thomas	LB	BAY	61	30	91	8.0	3.5	2	0	1
60	Isaiah Nwokobia	S	SMU	49	42	91	2.5	0.5	2	3	3
61	Daniel Bolden	LB	TOL	47	43	90	6.5	1.5	2	0	—
62	Devonte' Mathews	DB	WKU	50	40	90	1.5	0.0	0	0	2
63	Tuasivi Nomura	LB	FRES	54	36	90	6.0	0.0	0	3	—
64	Marvin Ham II	LB	ARST	45	45	90	9.5	1.5	1	1	—
65	Josh Baka	S	KENT	58	32	90	2.5	0.0	0	5	—
66	Chase Wilson	LB	CSU	39	51	90	3.0	0.0	6	1	2
67	Anthony Hill Jr.	LB	TEX	48	42	90	16.5	7.0	4	1	1
68	Wydett Williams Jr.	S	ULM	52	38	90	4.0	0.5	1	4	3
69	Ozzie Nicholas	LB	DUKE	37	52	89	3.5	0.5	4	2	1
70	Donelius Johnson	LB	KENN	38	51	89	8.0	3.5	1	0	—
71	Austin Romaine	LB	KSU	50	39	89	6.5	2.0	4	2	—
72	Eli Blakey	DB	M-OH	46	43	89	0.5	0.0	0	2	1
73	Xavian Sorey Jr.	LB	ARK	36	53	89	9.0	2.0	3	1	1
74	Tui Faumuina-Brown	LB	CONN	39	49	88	10.5	4.5	6	6	—
75	Francisco Mauigoa	LB	MIA	45	43	88	8.5	2.0	5	5	1
76	Easton Mascarenas-Arnold	LB	USC	49	39	88	5.0	2.0	2	0	2
77	Johnny Hodges	LB	TCU	47	40	87	4.5	1.0	1	0	—
78	Koa Naotala	LB	ODU	21	66	87	4.5	3.5	5	1	—
79	Chris Paul Jr.	LB	MISS	49	38	87	12.0	3.5	9	4	1
80	Shae Suiaunoa	LB	WYO	47	40	87	10.0	1.0	3	2	—
81	Dorian Hopkins	LB	UTEP	29	58	87	8.0	1.0	0	1	2
82	Silas Walters	DB	M-OH	40	47	87	2.0	0.0	0	12	—
83	Sean Brown	LB	NCSU	44	42	86	7.5	3.0	13	1	—
84	Justin Parks	S	ARST	48	38	86	4.5	0.0	3	3	2
85	Gaethan Bernadel	LB	STAN	33	53	86	6.0	1.0	2	1	1
86	Caleb Weaver	S	SHSU	62	24	86	2.5	0.0	1	6	4
87	Jahron Manning	S	ODU	34	51	85	5.5	0.5	0	3	3
88	Nate Dyman	LB	UTEP	34	50	84	9.5	1.5	3	4	—
89	Trey Rucker	S	OKST	53	31	84	1.0	0.0	0	1	2
90	Mac Uihlein	LB	NU	49	35	84	3.5	2.0	0	1	—
91	Kavian Gaither	LB	SHSU	58	26	84	7.5	0.0	5	1	1
92	Blake Leake	LB	OHIO	31	53	84	3.5	0.0	1	3	—
93	Reginald Hughes	LB	JXST	32	51	83	9.5	3.5	6	0	—
94	Nick Emmanwori	DB	SC	54	29	83	3.0	0.0	0	2	4
95	Nick Jackson	LB	IOWA	38	45	83	5.0	2.5	5	7	1
96	Joseph Carter	LB	LIB	41	42	83	5.0	1.5	0	2	—
97	Kydran Jenkins	EDGE	PUR	47	36	83	12.5	7.0	5	1	—
98	Branson Combs	LB	WAKE	46	37	83	5.5	2.0	2	1	1
99	Beau Freyler	DB	ISU	44	38	82	2.5	0.0	0	4	2
100	Ernest Hausmann	LB	MICH	50	32	82	7.0	2.0	1	1	1