Emeke Egbule: LB · Houston · #8.
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Emeke Egbule
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Played for two head coaches in three seasons at Houston. A game that shows it: 11 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against Memphis — Week 13, 2018.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
69 tackles. 5 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 5.5 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
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-27@ Rice | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-18vs Arizona | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 49-63@ Texas Tech | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 70-14vs Texas Southern | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 41-26vs Tulsa | 8 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 42-20@ East Carolina | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 49-36@ Navy | 11 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 57-36vs No. 21 South Florida | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-45@ SMU | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 49-59vs Temple | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 48-17vs Tulane | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 31-52@ Memphis | 11 | 7 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 14-70vs No. 22 Army | 8 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 69 | 39 | 5.5 | 2.0 | 2 | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
69tackles this seasonTFL rate
8%6 TFLSack rate
3%2 sacksPD rate
7%5 pass breakups69 tackles · 5.5 for loss · 2 sacks · 2 interceptions.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 5.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 6.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Major Applewhite
Pass share
47.0%
474 pass / 534 run
Plays / game
77.5
13 games
Team sack rate
5.9%
512 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2018
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Houston, 153 tackles — drafted at #200 overall by the Los Angeles Chargers.
A stat line in 35 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Tom Herman → Major Applewhite. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 8th NFL season
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 8th NFL season
