Dorance Armstrong Jr.: DE · Kansas · #2.
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Dorance Armstrong Jr.
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Two seasons in the Kansas defensive front to date. All-Big 12 in 2017 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. One game to point at: 9 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Ohio — Week 3, 2017.
Play style
No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
63 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 9.5 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.
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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 38-16vs Southeast Missouri State | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 27-45vs Central Michigan | 7 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 30-42@ Ohio | 9 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 4 | L 34-56vs West Virginia | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 19-65vs Texas Tech | 9 | 5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 0-45@ Iowa State | 4 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 8 | L 0-43@ No. 4 TCU | 8 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-30vs Kansas State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 9-38vs Baylor | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 27-42@ Texas | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 3-41vs No. 3 Oklahoma | 6 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-58@ No. 18 Oklahoma State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 63 | 33 | 9.5 | 2.0 | — | 4 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
3%2 sacksTFL rate
15%10 TFLHurry rate
11%7 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
22%2 of 9 pressures63 tackles · 9.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under David Beaty, all balanced offenses — 3-21 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.6 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 6.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 5.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Beaty
Pass share
54.3%
459 pass / 386 run
Plays / game
70.4
12 games
Team sack rate
6.0%
500 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Two seasons at Kansas, 12 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — drafted at #116 overall by the Dallas Cowboys.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 2ND TEAM
All-Big 12 2nd team (2017)
Next stop · NFL
Dallas CowboysEntering 9th NFL season
Dallas CowboysEntering 9th NFL season
