Faith Ekakitie: DL · Iowa · #56.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Faith Ekakitie
Wins the gap play after play. A game that shows it: 6 tackles against Wisconsin — Week 8, 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
39 tackles. 2 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.
KCCI Oct 28
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Iowa | 39 | 21 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
| Career | 39 | 21 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-21vs Miami (OH) | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-3vs Iowa State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 21-23vs North Dakota State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 14-7@ Rutgers | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 31-38vs Northwestern | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 14-7@ Minnesota | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 49-35@ Purdue | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 9-17vs No. 10 Wisconsin | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 14-41@ No. 20 Penn State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 14-13vs No. 2 Michigan | 4 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-0@ Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 40-10vs No. 17 Nebraska | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | L 3-30vs No. 20 Florida | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 39 | 21 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 |
Week 11 · 2016
W 14-13
vs Michigan
2 tackles for loss · 4 tackles · 2 solo tackles
A close one, won by 1 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
5%2 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
5%2 hurries39 tackles · 2 for loss.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirk Ferentz
Pass share
38.7%
310 pass / 492 run
Plays / game
61.7
13 games
Team sack rate
9.1%
342 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2016
39 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Iowa — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Kirk Ferentz.
From Brampton, ON — one of 83 players from Canada in FBS this season.
