Dennis Briggs: DB · Pittsburgh · #20.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Dennis Briggs
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Three seasons in the Pittsburgh secondary to date. On tape: 8 tackles and 1 sack against Duke, Week 9, 2018.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
52 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 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.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct 24Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Pittsburgh | 52 | 38 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 3 | -- |
| 2017 | Pittsburgh | 33 | 22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 |
| 2016 | Pittsburgh | 18 | 8 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 103 | 68 | 5.5 | 3.0 | 7 | 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
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 33-7vs UAlbany | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 6-51vs No. 13 Penn State | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-19vs Georgia Tech | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 35-38@ North Carolina | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 14-45@ No. 13 UCF | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-37vs Syracuse | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-19@ No. 5 Notre Dame | 6 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 54-45vs Duke | 8 | 6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 10 | W 23-13@ No. 23 Virginia | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-13@ Wake Forest | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 3-24@ Miami | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 10-42vs No. 2 Clemson | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 13-14vs Stanford | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 52 | 38 | 3.0 | 2.0 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
6%3 pass breakupsTackle volume
52tackles this seasonTFL rate
6%3 TFL52 tackles · 3 for loss · 2 sacks · 3 pass breakups.
3 seasons under Pat Narduzzi — 20-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 3.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Narduzzi
Pass share
35.8%
316 pass / 567 run
Plays / game
63.1
14 games
Team sack rate
8.4%
356 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2018
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Pittsburgh, 103 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Paul Chryst → Pat Narduzzi. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
