Chad Adams: DB · Arizona State · #21.
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Chad Adams
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Second year in the same secondary at Arizona State. One game to point at: 13 tackles against Arizona — Week 13, 2017.
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
69 tackles. 2 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 2.5 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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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Arizona State | 69 | 58 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | Arizona State | 19 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 88 | 75 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 2 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-31vs New Mexico State | 8 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-30vs San Diego State | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 45-52@ Texas Tech | 7 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-35vs No. 24 Oregon | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-34@ Stanford | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 13-7vs No. 5 Washington | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 8 | W 30-10@ Utah | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-48vs No. 21 USC | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 41-30vs Colorado | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 37-44@ UCLA | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 40-24@ Oregon State | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-30vs Arizona | 13 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 13 tackles |
 Bowl | L 31-52vs NC State | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 69 | 58 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 |
Week 10 · 2017
W 41-30
vs Colorado
1 interception · 7 tackles · 7 solo tackles
Edged out Colorado at home in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
3%2 pass breakupsInterceptions
2interceptionsTackle volume
69tackles this seasonTFL rate
4%2 TFL69 tackles · 2.5 for loss · 2 pass breakups · 2 interceptions.
2 seasons under Todd Graham — 12-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 6.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 4.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 6.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Todd Graham
Pass share
43.0%
416 pass / 551 run
Plays / game
74.4
13 games
Team sack rate
9.1%
464 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
69 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Arizona State, 88 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Todd Graham.
