Junior defensive lineman for Boston College. 2025: 1 sack, 1 tackle for loss, 14 tackles.
6′2″ · 250 lb · Lanham, MD · Eleanor Roosevelt
The numbers
sack · 2025
1 TFL · 14 tackles · 2 hurries
Best game: 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 5 tackles, at Pittsburgh
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 defensive lineman for Boston College. 2025: 1 sack, 1 tackle for loss, 14 tackles.
How he plays
Disrupts the pocket from the interior.
QB hurries: 72nd percentile.
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Disrupts the pocket from the interior. He got to Boston College by way of Merrimack. One game to point at: 5 tackles, 1 sacks against Pittsburgh — Week 6, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (16th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill O'Brien
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Boston College | 14 | 7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 14 | 7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 40-42@ Michigan State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 20-30@ Stanford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-28vs California | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-48@ Pittsburgh | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 10-41vs Clemson | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-38@ Louisville | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-25vs Notre Dame | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 34-36vs Georgia Tech | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 2 |
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
14 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 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.
2026 Outlook
Boston College
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive line · Boston College
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Boston College · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #71 · 2026 recruiting class #53
Player DNA
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Justin Ademilola’s 2022 season.
Matches Justin on
Differs from Justin on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to JaMair Diaz's freshman season at Sam Houston (2025).
Matches JaMair on
Differs from JaMair on
Player DNA
2025 (Sophomore): Played in all 12 games with three starts at defensive end, registering 14 tackles, two quarterback hits, two pass breakups, one fumble recovery and one sack ... Made his first career start in a Boston College uniform at Pittsburgh (10/4), sacking quarterback Mason Heintschel for...
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