Derek McCartney: OLB · Colorado · #95.
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Derek McCartney
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Three seasons in the Colorado linebacker corps to date. One game to point at: 14 tackles against Arizona State — Week 10, 2017.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
53 tackles. 5 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 5.5 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.
BroBible Oct 27
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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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 17-3vs Colorado State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 37-3vs Texas State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-21vs Northern Colorado | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-37vs No. 7 Washington | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 23-27@ UCLA | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 42-45vs Arizona | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 36-33@ Oregon State | 10 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 0-28@ No. 15 Washington State | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 44-28vs California | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | L 30-41@ Arizona State | 14 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 11 | L 24-38vs No. 15 USC | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 13-34@ Utah | 9 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 53 | 34 | 5.5 | 4.0 | — | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
53tackles this seasonTFL rate
10%6 TFLSack rate
8%4 sacksPD rate
9%5 pass breakups53 tackles · 5.5 for loss · 4 sacks.
3 seasons under Mike MacIntyre — 19-20 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 7.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike MacIntyre
Pass share
45.7%
409 pass / 486 run
Plays / game
74.6
12 games
Team sack rate
8.4%
452 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Colorado, 55 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mike MacIntyre.
