Carroll Phillips: DL · Illinois · #6.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Carroll Phillips
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. The first one came in 2016: All-Big Ten. A game that shows it: 8 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss against Western Michigan — Week 3, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
56 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 20 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.
LancasterOnline Oct 25
Yahoo Sports Oct 25Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Illinois | 56 | 30 | 20.0 | 9.0 |
| Career | 56 | 30 | 20.0 | 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 | W 52-3vs Murray State | 4 | 4 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 2 | L 23-48vs North Carolina | 6 | 4 | 3.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 3.5 TFL |
| Wk 3 | L 10-34vs Western Michigan | 8 | 2 | 2.5 | 2.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 16-31@ No. 15 Nebraska | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 31-34vs Purdue | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-7@ Rutgers | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 8-41@ No. 3 Michigan | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-40vs Minnesota | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-27vs Michigan State | 6 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 3-48@ No. 7 Wisconsin | 7 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 0-28vs Iowa | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 21-42@ Northwestern | 6 | 6 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Total | 56 | 30 | 20.0 | 9.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
36%20 TFLSack rate
16%9 sacksHurry rate
5%3 hurries56 tackles · 20 for loss · 9 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 5.0 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.3 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.0 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lovie Smith
Pass share
50.8%
358 pass / 347 run
Plays / game
58.8
12 games
Team sack rate
4.9%
387 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2016
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
One season at Illinois, 9 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN · 1ST TEAM
All-Big Ten 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Tim Beckman, Bill Cubit, and Lovie Smith. Multi-era developmental context.
