Jalen Graham: LB · Purdue · #6.
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Jalen Graham
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Fourth year in the same linebacker corps at Purdue. The first career honor came in 2021: Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. A game that shows it: 9 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Maryland — Week 6, 2022.
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
48 tackles. 5 passes defended. 1 interception. 5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-35vs Penn State | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-29@ Maryland | 9 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 43-37vs Nebraska | 6 | 6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-35@ Wisconsin | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 3-24vs Iowa | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 31-24@ No. 21 Illinois | 6 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 17-9vs Northwestern | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 30-16@ Indiana | 8 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 48 | 34 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 5 |
Week 6 · 2022
W 31-29
at Maryland
1 tackle for loss · 9 tackles · 1 pass breakup
Edged out Maryland on the road in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
48tackles this seasonTFL rate
10%5 TFLSack rate
2%1 sackPD rate
10%5 pass breakups48 tackles · 5 for loss · 1 sack · 1 interception.
4 seasons under Jeff Brohm — 23-22 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 6.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 7.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Brohm
Pass share
56.0%
581 pass / 457 run
Plays / game
74.1
14 games
Team sack rate
4.7%
620 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2022
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
Surprisingly productive for a linebacker with no award recognition yet — top-1% passes broken up, top-5% solo-tackle rate.2022 profile
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #237 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at Purdue, 162 tackles — drafted at #255 overall by the San Francisco 49ers.
A stat line in 35 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
1 coachPlayed every college season under Jeff Brohm.
Next stop · NFL
San Francisco 49ersEntering 4th NFL season
San Francisco 49ersEntering 4th NFL season
