Blake Keller: DL · Marshall · #44.
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Blake Keller
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Two seasons in the Marshall defensive front to date. On tape: 8 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Old Dominion, Week 7, 2017.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
34 tackles. 1 pass 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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-26vs Miami (OH) | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-37@ NC State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 21-0vs Kent State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 38-21@ Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 14-3@ Charlotte | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-3vs Old Dominion | 8 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 8 | W 38-10@ Middle Tennessee | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 30-41vs Florida International | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 25-30@ Florida Atlantic | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 30-23vs Western Kentucky | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 27-28vs Southern Miss | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 31-28vs Colorado State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 34 | 8 | 3.5 | 2.0 | — | 1 |
Bowl · 2017
W 31-28
vs Colorado State · neutral site
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 1 tackle
Edged out Colorado State at a neutral site in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
10%4 TFLSack rate
6%2 sacksHurry rate
18%6 hurries34 tackles · 3.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under Doc Holliday, all balanced offenses — 11-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Doc Holliday
Pass share
50.1%
443 pass / 441 run
Plays / game
68.0
13 games
Team sack rate
2.3%
470 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Marshall, 2 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Doc Holliday.
