DJ Calhoun: LB · Arizona State · #3.
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DJ Calhoun
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. Second year in the same linebacker corps at Arizona State. On tape: 13 tackles against New Mexico State, Week 1, 2017.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
99 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 12 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Arizona State | 99 | 65 | 12.0 | 6.5 | 3 |
| 2016 | Arizona State | 77 | 60 | 11.5 | 4.5 | 1 |
| Career | 176 | 125 | 23.5 | 11.0 | 4 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-31vs New Mexico State | 13 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-30vs San Diego State | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 45-52@ Texas Tech | 10 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-35vs No. 24 Oregon | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-34@ Stanford | 9 | 7 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 7 | W 13-7vs No. 5 Washington | 6 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 30-10@ Utah | 7 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-48vs No. 21 USC | 9 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 41-30vs Colorado | 8 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 37-44@ UCLA | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 40-24@ Oregon State | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-30vs Arizona | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
 Bowl | L 31-52vs NC State | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 2 | |
| Total | 99 | 65 | 12.0 | 6.5 | — | 3 |
Week 7 · 2017
W 13-7
vs Washington
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 6 tackles
A close one, won by 6 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
99tackles this seasonTFL rate
12%12 TFLSack rate
7%6 sacksPD rate
3%3 pass breakups99 tackles · 12 for loss · 6.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Todd Graham — 12-13 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 8.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 7.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 8.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 6.7 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Todd Graham
Pass share
43.0%
416 pass / 551 run
Plays / game
74.4
13 games
Team sack rate
9.1%
464 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
99 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Arizona State, 176 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Todd Graham.
