Breon Borders: CB · Duke · #31.
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Breon Borders
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away. Third year in the same secondary at Duke. On tape: 5 tackles against Virginia Tech, Week 10, 2016.
Play style
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
23 tackles. 11 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 0.5 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.
The Daily Progress Oct 23
Yahoo Sports Oct 19Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
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 · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-6vs North Carolina Central | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 14-24vs Wake Forest | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 13-24@ Northwestern | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-35@ Notre Dame | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 20-34vs Virginia | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-24@ No. 7 Louisville | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 35-38@ Georgia Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-24vs No. 23 Virginia Tech | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Total | 23 | 17 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 11 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
48%11 pass breakupsInterceptions
2interceptionsTackle volume
23tackles this season23 tackles · 0.5 for loss · 11 pass breakups · 2 interceptions.
3 seasons under David Cutcliffe — 21-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Road4g | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Cutcliffe
Pass share
50.5%
427 pass / 419 run
Plays / game
76.9
11 games
Team sack rate
5.5%
457 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Duke, 23 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under David Cutcliffe.
