Donald Pennington: DL · Memphis · #58.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Donald Pennington
Wins the gap play after play. One game to point at: 3 tackles against Tulane — Week 7, 2016.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
21 tackles. 3 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.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Memphis | 21 | 14 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3 |
| Career | 21 | 14 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 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 | W 35-17vs Southeast Missouri State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 43-7vs Kansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 28-48@ No. 16 Ole Miss | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 34-27vs Temple | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-14@ Tulane | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 28-42@ No. 24 Navy | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 30-59vs Tulsa | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 51-7@ SMU | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 42-49vs South Florida | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-7@ Cincinnati | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 48-44vs No. 18 Houston | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 31-51vs Western Kentucky | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 21 | 14 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Week 6 · 2016
W 34-27
vs Temple
2 tackles · 2 pass breakups · 1 solo tackle
A close one, won by 7 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
10%2 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries21 tackles · 2 for loss.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Norvell
Pass share
49.9%
477 pass / 478 run
Plays / game
73.5
13 games
Team sack rate
6.5%
525 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Memphis — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Justin Fuente → Mike Norvell. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
