Gary Thompson: DL · Marshall · #59.
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Gary Thompson
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. On tape: 10 tackles and 3.5 tackles for loss against North Texas, Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
43 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 8 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 | Marshall | 43 | 20 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 1 |
| Career | 43 | 20 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 1 |
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 2 | W 62-0vs Morgan State | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 38-65vs Akron | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 28-59vs No. 3 Louisville | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-43@ Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-38@ North Texas | 10 | 6 | 3.5 | 2.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 27-21vs Florida Atlantic | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-27vs Charlotte | 4 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-24@ Southern Miss | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-38@ Old Dominion | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-17vs Middle Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 14-31@ Florida International | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 6-60vs Western Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 43 | 20 | 8.0 | 5.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
19%8 TFLSack rate
12%5 sacksHurry rate
19%8 hurries43 tackles · 8 for loss · 5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Doc Holliday
Pass share
53.0%
438 pass / 389 run
Plays / game
68.9
12 games
Team sack rate
5.9%
425 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
43 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Marshall, 5 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Doc Holliday.
