College Football Defensive Leaders: Tackles, Sacks & TFL 2023

College Football Defensive Leaders: Tackles, Sacks & TFL 2023: every FBS player's 2023 season, sortable, filterable by conference and class, and linked to prospect and NFL player pages.

Team details

Season: 2023
Players: 1000

Top 100

#	Player	Pos	School	Class	G	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	INT	PD	FF	QB Hur
1	Jay Higgins	LB	Iowa	SR	14	171	79	5.0	2.0	1	3	0	3
2	Jason Henderson	LB	Old Dominion	SR	12	165	50	19.0	4.5		0		5
3	MJ Tafisi	LB	Utah State	SR	13	142	55	8.5	0.0		1		2
4	Nickolas Martin	LB	Oklahoma State	JR	14	140	83	16.0	6.0	2	0	0	8
5	Joseph Sparacio	LB	Eastern Michigan	SR	13	139	63	8.5	2.5	1	3		5
6	Payton Wilson	LB	NC State	SR	12	138	69	17.5	6.0	3	6	0	10
7	Nathaniel Watson	LB	Mississippi State	SR	12	137	35	13.0	10.0	1	2	0	7
8	Matthew Salopek	LB	Miami (OH)	SR	14	137	75	8.5	3.0	1	3	0	3
9	Wayne Matthews III	LB	Old Dominion	SR	13	135	40	9.5	3.5		3	0	0
10	Kendarin Ray	S	Tulsa	SR	12	131	73	4.0	0.0	1	1		1
11	Jett Johnson	LB	Mississippi State	SR	12	130	45	14.0	6.0	3	1		4
12	Bryce Houston	LB	Ohio	SR	13	128	60	12.5	2.5	3	1		5
13	Chase Kline	LB	Eastern Michigan	SR	11	124	42	4.0	2.0		3	0	9
14	Ty Wise	LB	Miami (OH)	SR	14	122	61	9.0	8.0	1	5		5
15	Cedric Gray	LB	North Carolina	SR	12	121	64	11.0	5.0	1	4	0	7
16	Hunter Wohler	S	Wisconsin	SR	13	120	74	5.5	1.0	2	6		4
17	Marques Watson-Trent	LB	Georgia Southern	SR	13	116	58	12.5	3.5	2	2		2
18	Tyren Dupree	LB	Liberty	SR	14	116	60	8.0	2.5	2	2	0	6
19	Trevor Williams	LB	Sam Houston	SR	10	114	71	7.5	1.5	2	0		4
20	Jack Howell	DB	Colorado State	SR	12	114	50	0.5	0.0	1	3	0	3
21	Dallas Gant	LB	Toledo	SR	14	114	49	8.0	1.0	1	2		0
22	Tyrice Knight	LB	UTEP	SR	10	113	63	13.0	3.5		6	0	3
23	Debo Williams	LB	South Carolina	SR	12	113	67	9.0	1.0		2	0	2
24	Bryce Gallagher	LB	Northwestern	SR	12	113	42	4.0	1.0	1	2	0	0
25	Jackson Mitchell	LB	UConn	SR	12	113	56	7.0	1.0	1	1	0	4
26	Nick Jackson	LB	Iowa	SR	14	110	51	8.0	4.0		2		7
27	Keyshaun Elliott	LB	New Mexico State	SR	15	110	58	10.0	2.5		6	0	4
28	Andrew Parker	LB	App State	SR	14	109	50	6.0	2.0		2	0	4
29	Aaron Casey	LB	Indiana	SR	12	108	77	20.0	6.5		3		1
30	Jonas Sanker	S	Virginia	SR	12	107	73	4.0	0.0		11	0	1
31	Chase Wilson	LB	Colorado State	SR	12	107	44	8.5	3.5		3	0	1
32	Aiden Fisher	LB	James Madison	SR	13	107	50	5.0	1.5	1	6		5
33	Caleb Downs	S	Alabama	JR	14	107	70	3.5	0.0	2	3	0	0
34	Dillon Thieneman	DB	Purdue	JR	12	106	74	2.0	0.0	6	2		1
35	Easton Mascarenas-Arnold	LB	Oregon State	SR	12	106	49	6.5	2.0	2	0		3
36	Beau Freyler	DB	Iowa State	SR	13	106	56	4.0	1.0	3	5		0
37	Bryun Parham	LB	San José State	SR	13	106	60	5.0	1.5	1	2	0	4
38	Donovan McMillon	DB	Pittsburgh	SR	11	105	54	0.5	0.0		1		0
39	Marlowe Wax	LB	Syracuse	SR	13	105	72	11.5	4.0		2		4
40	Brian Holloway	LB	Texas State	SR	13	105	60	16.0	1.5	4	0	0	8
41	Ben Roberts	LB	Texas Tech	SR	13	105	56	7.0	1.0	1	0		3
42	Kendal Daniels	LB	Oklahoma State	SR	14	105	62	5.5	2.0	2	1	0	0
43	Jason Johnson	LB	UCF	SR	11	104	60	6.0	3.0		1	0	0
44	Terry Jones	DB	Old Dominion	SR	12	104	29	4.0	0.0		4	0	3
45	Jacob Manu	LB	Arizona	SR	13	104	42	9.5	6.5	1	2		10
46	Xander Mueller	LB	Northwestern	SR	12	103	51	9.5	5.0	3	2		0
47	Ike Larsen	S	Utah State	SR	13	102	58	4.5	0.0	4	6		1
48	Power Echols	LB	North Carolina	SR	13	102	60	5.5	0.0	1	1		4
49	Easton Gibbs	LB	Wyoming	JR	12	101	42	4.0	2.0	1	5	0	3
50	Nicholas Ross	S	App State	SR	14	101	43	3.5	1.5	1	4	0	2
51	Trey Rucker	S	Oklahoma State	SR	14	100	62	4.0	0.0	1	1	0	0
52	Donovan Manuel	LB	Florida International	SR	10	98	56	11.5	0.0		2		1
53	Jesus Machado	LB	Tulane	SR	13	98	56	3.0	0.0	1	1		1
54	Dominique Hampton	CB	Washington	SR	14	98	58	0.0	0.0	2	6		0
55	Jackson Woodard	LB	UNLV	SR	12	97	42	9.0	2.5	1	2		2
56	Lee Kpogba	LB	West Virginia	SR	13	97	47	7.5	3.0		1		8
57	Jhalyn Shuler	LB	South Florida	SR	13	97	45	8.5	2.0		5	0	3
58	Jaylan Ford	LB	Texas	SR	14	96	46	10.5	1.0	2	2	0	6
59	Shawn Asbury II	DB	Old Dominion	SR	12	95	39	6.0	0.0	1	4		3
60	K.C. Ossai	LB	Louisiana	SR	13	95	52	4.5	1.0		0	1	3
61	Tre Freeman	LB	Duke	SR	13	95	52	5.0	1.5	1	3		6
62	Colin Ramos	LB	Navy	SR	11	94	52	8.0	2.0		4	0	6
63	Jontrey Hunter	LB	Georgia State	SR	12	94	50	7.0	1.5		4		2
64	Keye Thompson	LB	Ohio	SR	12	94	42	10.0	1.5	1	2	0	4
65	Deion Jennings	LB	Rutgers	SR	13	94	45	4.5	0.0		4		0
66	Chandler Martin	LB	Memphis	JR	13	94	66	17.0	3.0	2	2	0	3
67	Daniel Bolden	LB	Toledo	SR	14	94	43	6.5	0.5		3	0	3
68	Jeslord Boateng	LB	Louisiana Tech	SR	12	93	31	9.0	1.0		1		0
69	Elias Neal	LB	Marshall	SR	13	93	35	11.0	2.5	2	2	0	3
70	Alec Mock	LB	Air Force	SR	13	93	53	5.0	2.0	1	1		2
71	Max Tooley	LB	BYU	SR	12	92	53	5.0	1.0	1	2		0
72	Shawn Holton	S	Texas State	SR	13	92	64	0.0	0.0	2	1		0
73	Mohamed Toure	LB	Rutgers	SR	13	92	45	9.5	4.5	1	2		4
74	Quae Drake	LB	Jacksonville State	SR	13	92	48	6.5	2.0	1	2	0	2
75	Vinny DePalma	LB	Boston College	SR	13	92	42	1.5	0.5		1	0	1
76	Cal Haladay	LB	Michigan State	SR	12	91	41	5.5	1.0	1	0	0	1
77	Charles Willekes	LB	Arkansas State	SR	13	91	32	8.5	2.0		1		1
78	Trevian Thomas	S	Arkansas State	SR	13	91	58	2.5	0.0	2	4	0	0
79	A.J. Haulcy	S	Houston	SR	11	90	69	1.0	0.0		2		1
80	Emany Johnson	DB	Nevada	SR	11	90	67	2.5	0.0	3	3		0
81	Major Burns	S	LSU	SR	13	90	44	3.5	1.0	1	3		2
82	Edefuan Ulofoshio	LB	Washington	SR	14	90	58	8.0	3.0	1	2		0
83	Reggie Peterson	LB	Florida International	SR	10	89	42	7.0	3.0	1	0		1
84	Demetrius Knight II	LB	Charlotte	SR	11	89	42	5.5	1.5	3	4		0
85	Jaheim Thomas	LB	Arkansas	SR	11	89	38	5.5	2.5		2		5
86	Shae Suiaunoa	LB	Wyoming	SR	12	89	58	4.5	1.5	1	2		2
87	D'Eryk Jackson	LB	Kentucky	SR	13	89	53	8.0	2.0	2	4		2
88	Greg Penn III	LB	LSU	SR	13	89	34	6.5	4.0	2	1		1
89	Clayton Isbell	S	Coastal Carolina	SR	13	89	49	4.5	1.0	3	5		0
90	Justin Barron	DB	Syracuse	SR	13	89	56	5.0	0.5	2	8	0	1
91	Junior Colson	LB	Michigan	JR	14	89	40	2.0	0.0		2		2
92	Myles Heard	DB	Louisiana Tech	SR	11	88	40	5.5	0.0		4		3
93	Levani Damuni	LB	Utah	SR	12	88	43	3.0	1.0		0		0
94	Peter Manuma	DB	Hawai'i	SR	13	88	60	5.5	0.0	3	1		0
95	Patrick McMorris	DB	California	SR	13	88	50	5.5	1.0	1	7	0	1
96	Kaleb Elarms-Orr	LB	California	SR	11	87	49	3.0	1.0	1	6	0	6
97	Justin Sanchez	LB	Colorado State	SR	12	87	42	3.5	0.5		3		2
98	Julius Wood	DB	East Carolina	SR	12	87	42	3.0	0.0	2	1		1
99	Danny Stutsman	LB	Oklahoma	SR	12	87	46	13.5	2.0	1	3	0	1
100	Kyle Thornton	LB	Washington State	SR	12	87	35	4.5	1.0		1		6

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