Chad Thomas: DL · Miami · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Chad Thomas
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Second year in the same defensive front at Miami. On tape: 7 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Clemson, Week 14, 2017.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
37 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 12 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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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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-13vs Bethune-Cookman | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 52-30vs Toledo | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-6@ Duke | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-20@ Florida State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 25-24vs Georgia Tech | 4 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-19vs Syracuse | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 24-19@ North Carolina | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 28-10vs No. 13 Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 44-28vs Virginia | 4 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-24@ Pittsburgh | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 3-38vs No. 1 Clemson | 7 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
 Bowl | L 24-34vs No. 6 Wisconsin | 4 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 37 | 17 | 12.0 | 5.5 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
32%12 TFLSack rate
15%6 sacksHurry rate
8%3 hurries37 tackles · 12 for loss · 5.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Mark Richt, all balanced offenses — 19-7 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Road4g | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Richt
Pass share
51.3%
423 pass / 401 run
Plays / game
63.4
13 games
Team sack rate
6.1%
458 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
37 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Miami, 8 sacks — drafted at #67 overall by the Cleveland Browns.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Al Golden → Mark Richt. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Cleveland BrownsEntering 9th NFL season
Cleveland BrownsEntering 9th NFL season
