[terry]

By the way, you have Horrible Harry's stats wrong:
35 solo tackles, 64 assisted; 99 total.  100 tackles is nearly unprecedented for a nose tackle.  Phillips leads the nation in tackles for a defensive lineman.  In fact, he would have led the nation in 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, or 2008 (I don't feel like going back further).  You have to go back to 2013 to find a defensive lineman with more

Yes, great point.

Phillips' statistics are even more impressive because Phillips is a defensive tackle, not a DE. The conventional wisdom is defensive tackles, especially nose tackles in a 3-4 defense, don't get a lot of tackles because their job is to occupy offensive linemen, allowing the LBs to make the tackle. Phillips has blown that idea out of the water. It's unheard of for a DT to have 100 tackles.

Regarding Phillips' stats --

Both Stanford's stats and the NCAA's stats show Phillips with 100 tackles, 17.0 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks.

http://www.gostanford.com/cumestats.aspx...&year=2017 (click on Individual and then Defense)

http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/c...dual/34/p3 (tackles, #107)
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/c...ividual/39 (tackles for loss, #25)
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/c...dual/36/p2 (sacks, #54)

The Pac-12, for some reason, shows Phillips with only 97 tackles, 16.0 TFL, 7.0 sacks.

http://pac-12.com/content/football-statistics

In my experience, the Pac-12's stats are less reliable than Stanford's or the NCAA's stats. When there's a post-game adjustment to the box score, the Pac-12 sometimes doesn't pick it up right away.

Vita Vea's stats from the UW athletics site are:  38 tackles, 5.5 TFL, 3.5 sacks.

Phillips was absolutely dominant.

[terry]

By the way, you have Horrible Harry's stats wrong:
35 solo tackles, 64 assisted; 99 total.  100 tackles is nearly unprecedented for a nose tackle.  Phillips leads the nation in tackles for a defensive lineman.  In fact, he would have led the nation in 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, or 2008 (I don't feel like going back further).  You have to go back to 2013 to find a defensive lineman with more

Yes, great point.

Phillips' statistics are even more impressive because Phillips is a defensive tackle, not a DE. The conventional wisdom is defensive tackles, especially nose tackles in a 3-4 defense, don't get a lot of tackles because their job is to occupy offensive linemen, allowing the LBs to make the tackle. Phillips has blown that idea out of the water. It's unheard of for a DT to have 100 tackles.

Regarding Phillips' stats --

Both Stanford's stats and the NCAA's stats show Phillips with 100 tackles, 17.0 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks.

http://www.gostanford.com/cumestats.aspx...&year=2017 (click on Individual and then Defense)

http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/c...dual/34/p3 (tackles, #107)
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/c...ividual/39 (tackles for loss, #25)
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/c...dual/36/p2 (sacks, #54)

The Pac-12, for some reason, shows Phillips with only 97 tackles, 16.0 TFL, 7.0 sacks.

http://pac-12.com/content/football-statistics

In my experience, the Pac-12's stats are less reliable than Stanford's or the NCAA's stats. When there's a post-game adjustment to the box score, the Pac-12 sometimes doesn't pick it up right away.

Vita Vea's stats from the UW athletics site are:  38 tackles, 5.5 TFL, 3.5 sacks.

Phillips was absolutely dominant.