Alex Dale: S · Middle Tennessee · #22.
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Alex Dale
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Three seasons in the Middle Tennessee secondary to date. One game to point at: 3 tackles against Charlotte — Week 11, 2017.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
13 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 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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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Middle Tennessee | 13 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Middle Tennessee | 61 | 42 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 5 | -- |
| 2015 | Middle Tennessee | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Career | 74 | 51 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 5 | 2 |
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 · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 6-28vs Vanderbilt | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 30-23@ Syracuse | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-38vs Marshall | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 10 | W 30-3vs UTEP | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 35-21@ Charlotte | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 38-41@ Western Kentucky | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 41-10vs Old Dominion | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 35-30vs Arkansas State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 13 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
3 seasons under Rick Stockstill — 22-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rick Stockstill
Pass share
52.7%
473 pass / 424 run
Plays / game
69.0
13 games
Team sack rate
4.7%
511 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Middle Tennessee, 74 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Rick Stockstill.
