Christian LaCouture: DE · LSU · #18.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Christian LaCouture
Turns pressure into sacks — pressures become finishes. A game that shows it: 11 tackles against Mississippi State — Week 3, 2017.
Play style
Turns pressure into sacks — when he gets there, he finishes.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
66 tackles. 5 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 8.5 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 | LSU | 66 | 10 | 8.5 | 6.0 | 5 |
| Career | 66 | 10 | 8.5 | 6.0 | 5 |
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 27-0vs BYU | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-10vs Chattanooga | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-37@ Mississippi State | 11 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 35-26vs Syracuse | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-24vs Troy | 12 | 2 | 2.5 | 2.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 17-16@ No. 21 Florida | 9 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 27-23vs No. 10 Auburn | 7 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 40-24@ Ole Miss | 4 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-24@ No. 1 Alabama | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 33-10vs Arkansas | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 30-10@ Tennessee | 6 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 45-21vs Texas A&M | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 17-21vs No. 14 Notre Dame | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 66 | 10 | 8.5 | 6.0 | — | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
9%6 sacksTFL rate
13%8 TFLHurry rate
5%3 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
67%6 of 9 pressures66 tackles · 8.5 for loss · 6 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 6.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 6.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ed Orgeron
Pass share
35.2%
300 pass / 552 run
Plays / game
65.5
13 games
Team sack rate
8.8%
339 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
66 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at LSU, 6 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Les Miles → Ed Orgeron. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
