B.J. Hill: DT · NC State · #98.
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B.J. Hill
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Second year in the NC State defensive front. On tape: 8 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against North Carolina, Week 13, 2017.
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
55 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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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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 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 37-20vs Marshall | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 49-16vs Furman | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 27-21@ No. 12 Florida State | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 33-25vs Syracuse | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 39-25vs No. 17 Louisville | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-17@ Pittsburgh | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-35@ No. 9 Notre Dame | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-38vs No. 6 Clemson | 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 17-14@ Boston College | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-30@ Wake Forest | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 33-21vs North Carolina | 8 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
 Bowl | W 52-31vs Arizona State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 55 | 18 | 3.5 | 2.0 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
6%4 TFLSack rate
4%2 sacksHurry rate
4%2 hurries55 tackles · 3.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under Dave Doeren — 16-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 3.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 6.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 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
55 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at NC State, 93 tackles — drafted at #69 overall by the New York Giants.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dave Doeren.
Next stop · NFL
New York GiantsEntering 9th NFL season
New York GiantsEntering 9th NFL season
