Leighton Vander Esch | Football Outsiders

Position: OLB

Size: 6-4, 256 pounds

Draft: Dallas Cowboys 2018 (Round: 1 / Pick: 19)

College: Boise State

Birthdate: 02/08/1996

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Standard Stats

Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	Total Tkl	Tkl	Ast	Sacks	Int	IntTD	PD	FF	FR	FumTD	Pen	PenYd
2019	DAL	OLB	9	9	72	43	29	0.5	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0
2018	DAL	OLB	16	11	140	102	38	0.0	2	0	7	0	0	0	2	25

Advanced Stats

Year	Team	Pos	Plays	Stops	Dfts	Yd/Play	Rank	Stop Rate	Rank	Adj Pct Tm Total	Rank	Run/Pass Ratio
2019	DAL	OLB	75	42	13	5.2	55	56%	45	16%	15	1.1
2018	DAL	OLB	145	65	14	5.7	67	45%	70	18%	5	1.0

Advanced Stats vs Pass

Year	Team	Pos	Plays	Stops	Dfts	Yd/Play	Rank	Stop Rate	Rank	Pct Tm	Tkl	Stops	Stop Rate
2019	DAL	OLB	36	15	7	7.2	61	42%	66	8%	32.0	11.0	34%
2018	DAL	OLB	73	25	8	7.7	60	34%	72	17%	66.0	18.0	27%

Advanced Stats vs Run

Year	Team	Pos	Plays	Stops	Dfts	Yd/Play	Rank	Stop Rate	Rank	Pct Tm
2019	DAL	OLB	39	27	6	3.4	36	69%	22	69%
2018	DAL	OLB	72	40	6	3.7	34	56%	55	56%

Charting Stats

Year	Team	Pos	Hits	Hur	Tgts	Tgt%	Rank	Avg Dist	YAC	Rank	Suc%	Rank	PaYd	Rank	Suc%	PaYd
2019	DAL	OLB	2	3	22	9.2%	28	7.9	4.3	31	41%	55	6.8	40	41%	6.8
2018	DAL	OLB	1	2	49	11.8%	11	6.6	2.2	4	41%	63	6.4	29	41%	6.4

Penalties

Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	Pen	PenYd
2019	DAL	OLB	9	9	0	0
2018	DAL	OLB	16	11	2	25

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