Donnie Starks: DB · Kansas State · #10.
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Donnie Starks
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. A game that shows it: 8 tackles against Texas A&M — Bowl, 2016.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
47 tackles. 2 passes defended. 3 interceptions. 1 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 | Kansas State | 47 | 36 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3 |
| Career | 47 | 36 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 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 13-26@ No. 8 Stanford | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 63-7vs Florida Atlantic | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 16-17@ West Virginia | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-38vs Texas Tech | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-38@ No. 19 Oklahoma | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 24-21vs Texas | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-26@ Iowa State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 37-43vs No. 22 Oklahoma State | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-21@ Baylor | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 34-19vs Kansas | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 30-6@ TCU | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 33-28vs Texas A&M | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 47 | 36 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 2 |
Week 12 · 2016
W 42-21
at Baylor
2 interceptions · 6 tackles · 5 solo tackles
Dominant 21-point win on the road against Baylor.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
4%2 pass breakupsInterceptions
3interceptionsTackle volume
47tackles this seasonTFL rate
2%1 TFL47 tackles · 1 for loss · 2 pass breakups · 3 interceptions.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Snyder
Pass share
35.5%
309 pass / 562 run
Plays / game
67.0
13 games
Team sack rate
7.8%
345 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Kansas State, 47 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bill Snyder.
