Linebacker, Maryland (from Illinois), 2014–⁠18

Tre Watson

Lettered 2015–⁠17 at Illinois (school media guide)

Number: No. 33
Height: 6′2″
Weight: 236 lb
Class (2018): Senior
Hometown: Tampa, FL

Tre Watson played linebacker at Illinois (2014–⁠17) and Maryland (2018).

Best season: 108; Tackles, 2018 (Maryland, 5–⁠7)
Best game: 11 tackles; Vs. Minnesota, week 4, 2018: No. 3 defensive game in FBS that week

16tackles, career highvs. Michigan State, 2016

Honors

2018First-team All-Big Ten

Defense

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

102

108

3–⁠92–⁠105–⁠7

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2016	Illinois	102	38	4.5	0	0	1	1
2017	Illinois	65	36	4.5	1.5	1	2	5
2018	Maryland	108	69	3	1	5	3	0
Career		275	143	12	2.5	6	6	6

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.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl
2015	6 of 12	4	7	11

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2014	Illinois	33	LB	RS
2015	Illinois	33	LB	Fr.
2016	Illinois	33	LB	So.
2017	Illinois	33	LB	Jr.
2018	Maryland	33	LB	Sr.	6′2″	236

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

2018 Maryland 12 games, 108 tackles, 1 sack, 5 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 1	vs.Texas	W 34–⁠29	9	7	0	0	1	0
Sep 8	atBowling Green	W 45–⁠14	4	3	0	0	0	1
Sep 15	vs.Temple	L 14–⁠35	15	9	1	0	0	0
Sep 22	vs.Minnesota	W 42–⁠13	11	6	1	1	1	0
Oct 6	atMichigan	L 21–⁠42	10	9	0	0	0	0
Oct 13	vs.Rutgers	W 34–⁠7	5	4	0	0	1	0
Oct 20	atIowa	L 0–⁠23	15	7	1	0	1	0
Oct 27	vs.Illinois	W 63–⁠33	3	3	0	0	0	0
Nov 3	vs.Michigan State	L 3–⁠24	13	6	0	0	0	0
Nov 10	atIndiana	L 32–⁠34	7	5	0	0	1	1
Nov 17	vs.Ohio State	L 51–⁠52	12	7	0	0	0	1
Nov 24	atPenn State	L 3–⁠38	4	3	0	0	0	0

2017 Illinois 9 games, 65 tackles, 1.5 sacks, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 2	vs.Ball State	W 24–⁠21	12	4	0	0	1	0
Sep 9	vs.Western Kentucky	W 20–⁠7	4	2	0.5	0	0	0
Sep 15	atSouth Florida	L 23–⁠47	7	6	1	0	0	1
Sep 29	vs.Nebraska	L 6–⁠28	8	2	1	0.5	0	0
Oct 7	atIowa	L 16–⁠45	5	2	0	0	0	1
Oct 14	vs.Rutgers	L 24–⁠35	4	2	0	0	0	0
Nov 11	vs.Indiana	L 14–⁠24	6	3	0	0	0	0
Nov 18	atOhio State	L 14–⁠52	7	7	2	1	0	0
Nov 25	vs.Northwestern	L 7–⁠42	12	8	0	0	0	0

2016 Illinois 11 games, 102 tackles

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	PD
Sep 3	vs.Murray State	W 52–⁠3	3	2	0	0
Sep 17	vs.Western Michigan	L 10–⁠34	6	3	0	0
Oct 1	atNebraska	L 16–⁠31	10	3	0	0
Oct 8	vs.Purdue	L 31–⁠34	13	4	0	0
Oct 15	atRutgers	W 24–⁠7	9	5	1	0
Oct 22	atMichigan	L 8–⁠41	7	3	1.5	0
Oct 29	vs.Minnesota	L 17–⁠40	6	0	0	0
Nov 5	vs.Michigan State	W 31–⁠27	16	4	1.5	1
Nov 12	atWisconsin	L 3–⁠48	10	5	0	0
Nov 19	vs.Iowa	L 0–⁠28	15	4	0.5	0
Nov 26	atNorthwestern	L 21–⁠42	7	5	0	0