Senior safety on Northern Illinois's 2019 roster.
6′0″ · 205 lb · Minneapolis, MN
The story
4 safety on Northern Illinois's roster.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearAdam Buirge
Four seasons at Northern Illinois, two different head coaches: Rod Carey and Thomas Hammock. One game to point at: 5 tackles against Akron — Week 9, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Northern Illinois, 45 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Rod Carey → Thomas Hammock. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rob Harley
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Northern Illinois | 12 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Northern Illinois | 16 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Northern Illinois | 12 | 10 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Northern Illinois | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 45 | 34 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2019
W 24–10
1 TOT · 1 SOLO
With M. Ference — 44 AVG · 51 LONG · 8 NO · R. Bowers — 299 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 43.5 · -10 rush yds (5 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-10vs Illinois State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 17-35@ Utah | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 8-44@ Nebraska | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 39-36@ Ohio | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 49-0vs Akron | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 10-48@ Central Michigan | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-28@ Toledo | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 17-14vs Western Michigan | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 12 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
12 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.