Carl Lawson: DL · Auburn · #55.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Carl Lawson
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. The first career honor came in 2016: All-SEC. On tape: 6 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss against Georgia, Week 11, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
30 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 13.5 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.
Yahoo Sports Oct 26
USA Today Oct 18
On3 Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Auburn | 30 | 15 | 13.5 | 9.0 |
| Career | 30 | 15 | 13.5 | 9.0 |
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-19vs No. 2 Clemson | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 51-14vs Arkansas State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 16-29vs No. 17 Texas A&M | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 18-13vs No. 18 LSU | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 5 | W 58-7vs UL Monroe | 3 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-14@ Mississippi State | 3 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 8 | W 56-3vs No. 17 Arkansas | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 40-29@ Ole Miss | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 23-16vs Vanderbilt | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 7-13@ Georgia | 6 | 2 | 2.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 12-30@ No. 1 Alabama | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 19-35vs No. 7 Oklahoma | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 30 | 15 | 13.5 | 9.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
45%14 TFLSack rate
30%9 sacksHurry rate
80%24 hurries30 tackles · 13.5 for loss · 9 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Gus Malzahn
Pass share
31.1%
286 pass / 634 run
Plays / game
70.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.8%
311 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
One season at Auburn, 9 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — drafted at #116 overall by the Cincinnati Bengals.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SEC · 1ST TEAM
All-SEC 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Gus Malzahn.
Next stop · NFL
Cincinnati BengalsEntering 10th NFL season
Cincinnati BengalsEntering 10th NFL season
