Dakota Cox: LB · New Mexico · #49.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Dakota Cox
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Third year in the New Mexico linebacker corps. First career honor, 2014: All-Mountain West. A game that shows it: 14 tackles against Wyoming — Week 13, 2016.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
91 tackles. 2 passes defended. 1 interception. 6.5 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | New Mexico | 91 | 51 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2015 | New Mexico | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| 2014 | New Mexico | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 91 | 51 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 2 | 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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-21vs South Dakota | 14 | 9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 31-32@ New Mexico State | 6 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 48-41vs San José State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-49vs No. 19 Boise State | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 45-40vs Air Force | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 59-17vs UL Monroe | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-21@ Hawai'i | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-26vs Nevada | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-21@ Utah State | 10 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 31-49@ Colorado State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 56-35vs Wyoming | 14 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 23-20vs UTSA | 10 | 6 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 91 | 51 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 1 | 2 |
Week 1 · 2016
W 48-21
vs South Dakota
1 interception · 1 sack · 2 tackles for loss
Dominant 27-point win at home against South Dakota.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
91tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%6 TFLSack rate
2%2 sacksPD rate
2%2 pass breakups91 tackles · 6.5 for loss · 2 sacks · 1 interception.
3 seasons under Bob Davie — 20-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 7.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 7.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 7.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 7.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bob Davie
Pass share
20.7%
178 pass / 680 run
Plays / game
66.0
13 games
Team sack rate
6.6%
197 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
91 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at New Mexico, 91 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2014) — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2014)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bob Davie.
