Bryce Santana
Bryce Santana
Wins his gap play after play. Four seasons at New Mexico, two different head coaches: Danny Gonzales and Bronco Mendenhall. One game to point at: 9 tackles against Utah State — Week 8, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- positional archetype classification
- head-coach lineage
- game log
How it ended
Four seasons at New Mexico, 4 sacks — his college career is complete.
Career Arc
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Danny Gonzales → Bronco Mendenhall. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
2025 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
Splits & context
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jason Eck
Awards
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.
Career stats
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | New Mexico | 28 | 13 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | New Mexico | 12 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -- | -- | 1 |
| 2022 | New Mexico | 24 | 8 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | New Mexico | 4 | -- | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 68 | 26 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 1 | -- | 1 |
How he plays
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
CFB Index positional classification
DNA match
Player DNA
Two-Gap Base
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Everitt Rogers’s 2022 season.
Matches Everitt on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Wykevious Thomas's graduate season at South Alabama (2024).
Matches Wykevious on