Des Lawrence: CB · North Carolina · #2.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Des Lawrence
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away. Three seasons in the North Carolina secondary to date. One game to point at: 5 tackles against Duke — Week 11, 2016.
Play style
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
37 tackles. 10 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2 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.
247Sports Nov 3
Syracuse.com Oct 22Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | North Carolina | 37 | 28 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 10 | -- |
| 2015 | North Carolina | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| 2014 | North Carolina | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 37 | 28 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 10 | 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 | L 24-33vs No. 18 Georgia | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 48-23@ Illinois | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 56-28vs James Madison | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-36vs Pittsburgh | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 37-35@ No. 12 Florida State | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 3-34vs No. 25 Virginia Tech | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 20-13@ No. 16 Miami | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 35-14@ Virginia | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 27-28@ Duke | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 41-7vs The Citadel | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 21-28vs NC State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | L 23-25vs No. 16 Stanford | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 37 | 28 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 10 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
27%10 pass breakupsTackle volume
37tackles this season37 tackles · 2 for loss · 1 sack · 10 pass breakups.
3 seasons under Larry Fedora — 25-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| Road5g | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Larry Fedora
Pass share
53.3%
457 pass / 400 run
Plays / game
65.9
13 games
Team sack rate
4.2%
480 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at North Carolina, 37 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Larry Fedora.
