Senior linebacker for North Carolina. 2019: 20 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks.
6′4″ · 260 lb · Hiram, GA
Recruiting
SDE recruit
No. 1249 nationally · Signed with North Carolina
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 linebacker for North Carolina. 2019: 20 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks.
Allen Cater
Allen Cater has played for two head coaches in four seasons at North Carolina. One game to point at: 4 tackles against Georgia Tech — Week 6, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at North Carolina, 48 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Larry Fedora → Mack Brown. 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
Elite: qb hurries (94th percentile). Concern: tackles (28th 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Belichick
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | North Carolina | 20 | 12 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | North Carolina | 12 | 7 | 2.0 | 2.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | North Carolina | 11 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | North Carolina | 5 | -- | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 48 | 23 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 3 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2019
W 28–25
vs Miami
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-20vs South Carolina | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 28-25vs Miami | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 18-24@ Wake Forest | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 20-21vs Clemson | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-22@ Georgia Tech | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 41-43@ Virginia Tech | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 20-17vs Duke | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-38vs Virginia | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 27-34@ Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 12 | 2.5 | 0.5 | — | 2 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
20 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 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.