Chris Slayton: DL · Syracuse · #95.
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Chris Slayton
Wins the gap play after play. Third year in the Syracuse defensive front. A game that shows it: 6 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against West Virginia — Bowl, 2018.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
24 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 8 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
2018 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 55-42@ Western Michigan | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 30-7vs Florida State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 51-21vs UConn | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 23-27@ No. 3 Clemson | 4 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 37-44@ Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 40-37vs North Carolina | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 51-41vs No. 22 NC State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 54-23vs Louisville | 3 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-21@ Boston College | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 34-18vs No. 15 West Virginia | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 24 | 16 | 8.0 | 3.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
33%8 TFLSack rate
15%4 sacksHurry rate
25%6 hurries24 tackles · 8 for loss · 3.5 sacks.
3 seasons under Dino Babers — 18-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dino Babers
Pass share
44.1%
464 pass / 588 run
Plays / game
80.9
13 games
Team sack rate
7.3%
510 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2018
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Syracuse, 8 sacks — drafted at #245 overall by the New York Giants.
A stat line in 34 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Scott Shafer → Dino Babers. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
New York GiantsEntering 8th NFL season
New York GiantsEntering 8th NFL season
