Airius Moore: LB · NC State · #58.
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Airius Moore
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Third year in the same linebacker corps at NC State. One game to point at: 10 tackles and 1 INT against Arizona State — Bowl, 2017.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
68 tackles. 4 passes defended. 3 interceptions. 2 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 28-35vs South Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 37-20vs Marshall | 6 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 49-16vs Furman | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 27-21@ No. 12 Florida State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 33-25vs Syracuse | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 39-25vs No. 17 Louisville | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-17@ Pittsburgh | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-35@ No. 9 Notre Dame | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-38vs No. 6 Clemson | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 17-14@ Boston College | 6 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-30@ Wake Forest | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 33-21vs North Carolina | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 52-31vs Arizona State | 10 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 68 | 30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 4 |
Bowl · 2017
W 52-31
vs Arizona State · neutral site
1 interception · 10 tackles · 4 solo tackles
Dominant 21-point win at a neutral site against Arizona State.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
68tackles this seasonTFL rate
3%2 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksPD rate
6%4 pass breakups68 tackles · 2 for loss · 3 interceptions.
3 seasons under Dave Doeren — 24-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 5.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dave Doeren
Pass share
50.1%
484 pass / 483 run
Plays / game
74.4
13 games
Team sack rate
2.8%
504 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at NC State, 153 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dave Doeren.
