Linebacker, Tennessee, 2016–⁠19

Daniel Bituli

Number: No. 35
Height: 6′3″
Weight: 252 lb
Class (2019): Senior
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Born: Dec 27, 1997

Daniel Bituli played linebacker at Tennessee (2016–⁠19).

23tackles, career highvs. Georgia Tech, 2017 2sacks, career highat Florida, 2019

Honors

2019Second-team All-SEC

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record

9–⁠4AP 224–⁠85–⁠78–⁠5

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2016	Tennessee	9	7	0	0	0	0	0
2017	Tennessee	90	42	3	0	1	2	1
2018	Tennessee	79	39	6.5	1	0	1	0
2019	Tennessee	86	50	3	3	0	2	3
Career		264	138	12.5	4	1	5	4

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2016	Tennessee	35	LB	Fr.
2017	Tennessee	35	LB	So.
2018	Tennessee	35	LB	Jr.
2019	Tennessee	35	LB	Sr.	6′3″	252

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2019 Tennessee 11 games, 86 tackles, 3 sacks

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Sep 14	vs.Chattanooga	W 45–⁠0	2	2	0	0	1
Sep 21	atFlorida	L 3–⁠34	6	3	0	2	0
Oct 5	vs.Georgia	L 14–⁠43	6	2	0	0	0
Oct 12	vs.Mississippi State	W 20–⁠10	7	2	0	0	0
Oct 19	atAlabama	L 13–⁠35	4	2	0	0	0
Oct 26	vs.South Carolina	W 41–⁠21	15	11	1	0	1
Nov 2	vs.UAB	W 30–⁠7	1	0	0	0	0
Nov 9	atKentucky	W 17–⁠13	19	10	0.5	0	0
Nov 23	atMissouri	W 24–⁠20	12	10	1	1	0
Nov 30	vs.Vanderbilt	W 28–⁠10	8	4	0	0	0
Jan 2 ✦	vs.Indiana	W 23–⁠22	6	4	0.5	0	0

2018 Tennessee 12 games, 79 tackles, 1 sack

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Sep 1	vs.West Virginia	L 14–⁠40	5	1	1	0	0
Sep 8	vs.East Tennessee State	W 59–⁠3	3	1	0	0	0
Sep 15	vs.UTEP	W 24–⁠0	6	3	1	1	0
Sep 22	vs.Florida	L 21–⁠47	4	1	0	0	0
Sep 29	atGeorgia	L 12–⁠38	8	2	0	0	0
Oct 13	atAuburn	W 30–⁠24	5	3	0.5	0	0
Oct 20	vs.Alabama	L 21–⁠58	8	5	0.5	0	0
Oct 27	atSouth Carolina	L 24–⁠27	5	3	0	0	0
Nov 3	vs.Charlotte	W 14–⁠3	13	6	1	0	0
Nov 10	vs.Kentucky	W 24–⁠7	8	6	2.5	0	0
Nov 17	vs.Missouri	L 17–⁠50	5	3	0	0	1
Nov 24	atVanderbilt	L 13–⁠38	9	5	0	0	0

2017 Tennessee 12 games, 90 tackles, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
Sep 4	vs.Georgia Tech	W 42–⁠41	23	10	0	0	0
Sep 9	vs.Indiana State	W 42–⁠7	5	3	1	0	0
Sep 16	atFlorida	L 20–⁠26	5	2	0.5	0	0
Sep 23	vs.Massachusetts	W 17–⁠13	5	3	0	0	0
Sep 30	vs.Georgia	L 0–⁠41	8	3	0	0	0
Oct 14	vs.South Carolina	L 9–⁠15	2	2	0	0	0
Oct 21	atAlabama	L 7–⁠45	9	3	0	1	0
Oct 28	atKentucky	L 26–⁠29	2	1	0	0	1
Nov 4	vs.Southern Miss	W 24–⁠10	4	1	0	0	1
Nov 11	atMissouri	L 17–⁠50	7	3	0.5	0	0
Nov 18	vs.LSU	L 10–⁠30	8	4	1	0	0
Nov 25	vs.Vanderbilt	L 24–⁠42	12	7	0	0	0

2016 Tennessee 4 games, 9 tackles

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo
Sep 24	vs.Florida	W 38–⁠28	1	1
Oct 1	atGeorgia	W 34–⁠31	1	1
Nov 5	vs.Tennessee Tech	W 55–⁠0	2	1
Nov 26	atVanderbilt	L 34–⁠45	5	4

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2020	Combine or pro day 2020
Height	6′2″
Weight	246 lb
Arm length	34⅜″
Hand size	9¼″
40-yard dash	4.84 s
10-yard split		1.62 s
Vertical jump	32″
Broad jump	10′1″
Bench press	16 reps
3-cone drill	7.07 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

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