David Curle: DL · Western Michigan · #68.
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David Curle
Wins the gap play after play. A game that shows it: 5 tackles against Ball State — Week 10, 2016.
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
23 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Western Michigan | 23 | 13 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1 |
| Career | 23 | 13 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1 |
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 22-21@ Northwestern | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 34-10@ Illinois | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 49-31vs Georgia Southern | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 49-10@ Central Michigan | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 45-30vs Northern Illinois | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 41-0@ Akron | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 52-20@ Ball State | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 11 | W 37-21@ Kent State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 38-0vs Buffalo | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 55-35vs Toledo | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 29-23vs Ohio | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 16-24vs No. 8 Wisconsin | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 23 | 13 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 |
Week 5 · 2016
W 49-10
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 1 tackle
Dominant 39-point win on the road against Central Michigan.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
11%2 TFLSack rate
4%1 sackHurry rate
4%1 hurry23 tackles · 2.5 for loss · 1 sack.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
P.J. Fleck
Pass share
37.9%
378 pass / 620 run
Plays / game
71.3
14 games
Team sack rate
4.2%
382 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Western Michigan, 1 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under P.J. Fleck.
