Demond Taylor: DT · Northern Illinois · #10.
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Demond Taylor
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Rated a two-star prospect, with six seasons of snaps at Northern Illinois since. On tape: 4 tackles against Toledo, Week 8, 2024.
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
15 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 4 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Northern Illinois | 15 | 10 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 21 | 11 | 2.5 | 0.0 | -- |
| 2022 | Northern Illinois | 18 | 9 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1 |
| 2021 | Northern Illinois | 28 | 14 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
| 2020 | Northern Illinois | 10 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
| 2019 | Northern Illinois | 2 | -- | 0.5 | 0.0 | -- |
| Career | 94 | 47 | 12.0 | 1.0 | 5 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 54-15vs Western Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 16-14@ No. 5 Notre Dame | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-23vs Buffalo | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 17-24@ NC State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 34-20vs Massachusetts | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 17-7@ Bowling Green | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 6-13vs Toledo | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 9-20@ Miami (OH) | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 24-16vs Central Michigan | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 10 | 4.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
27%4 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
7%1 hurry15 tackles · 4 for loss.
6 seasons under Thomas Hammock — 32-38 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Thomas Hammock
Pass share
40.1%
368 pass / 549 run
Plays / game
70.5
13 games
Team sack rate
4.4%
388 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Two-star recruit. Now #212 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons at Northern Illinois, 94 tackles — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 45 games over six seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
1 coachPlayed every college season under Thomas Hammock.
