Avery Ellis: DL · Temple · #52.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Avery Ellis
Wins the gap play after play. A game that shows it: 3 tackles against Navy — Week 14, 2016.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
15 tackles. 0 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Temple | 15 | 7 | 2.5 | 0.0 |
| Career | 15 | 7 | 2.5 | 0.0 |
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
2016 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-28vs Army | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 27-34@ Penn State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 26-25@ UCF | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 46-30vs South Florida | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 10 | W 21-0@ UConn | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-0@ Tulane | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 37-10vs East Carolina | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 34-10@ No. 20 Navy | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
 Bowl | L 26-34vs Wake Forest | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 7 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
17%2 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
7%1 hurry15 tackles · 2.5 for loss.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Matt Rhule
Pass share
41.3%
403 pass / 572 run
Plays / game
69.6
14 games
Team sack rate
6.6%
440 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Temple — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Steve Addazio → Matt Rhule. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
