Casey Sayles: DL · Ohio · #44.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Casey Sayles
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. One game to point at: 5 tackles and 1 sack against Buffalo — Week 10, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
33 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 7.5 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.
Eleven Warriors Oct 27
The Columbus Dispatch Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ohio | 33 | 18 | 7.5 | 6.0 | 3 |
| Career | 33 | 18 | 7.5 | 6.0 | 3 |
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 · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 54-56vs Texas State | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 37-21@ Kansas | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 19-28@ No. 15 Tennessee | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-21vs Gardner-Webb | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-7@ Miami (OH) | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 6 | W 30-24vs Bowling Green | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-27vs Eastern Michigan | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 14-10@ Kent State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-26@ Toledo | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 34-10vs Buffalo | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 12 | L 20-27@ Central Michigan | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 9-3vs Akron | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 23-29vs No. 13 Western Michigan | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 23-28vs Troy | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 2 | |
| Total | 33 | 18 | 7.5 | 6.0 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
23%8 TFLSack rate
18%6 sacksHurry rate
6%2 hurries33 tackles · 7.5 for loss · 6 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Frank Solich
Pass share
46.2%
458 pass / 534 run
Plays / game
70.9
14 games
Team sack rate
3.9%
492 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Ohio, 6 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Frank Solich.
