Isaiah Foskey: DL · Notre Dame · #7.
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Isaiah Foskey
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Played for two head coaches in four seasons at Notre Dame. First career honor, 2022: All-America (Consensus). On tape: 5 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss against USC, Week 13, 2022.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
44 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 13.5 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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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Notre Dame | 44 | 23 | 13.5 | 10.5 | -- |
| 2021 | Notre Dame | 52 | 38 | 12.5 | 11.0 | 1 |
| 2020 | Notre Dame | 19 | 11 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 1 |
| 2019 | Notre Dame | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- |
| Career | 120 | 73 | 31.0 | 26.0 | 2 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-21@ No. 2 Ohio State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 21-26vs Marshall | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 24-17vs California | 4 | 1 | 2.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-32@ North Carolina | 5 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 28-20vs No. 16 BYU | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-16vs Stanford | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 44-21vs UNLV | 5 | 2 | 3.0 | 3.0 | — | 0 | 3 sacks |
| Wk 9 | W 41-24@ No. 16 Syracuse | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-14vs No. 5 Clemson | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 35-32vs Navy | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 44-0vs Boston College | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 27-38@ No. 5 USC | 5 | 4 | 2.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Total | 44 | 23 | 13.5 | 10.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
31%14 TFLSack rate
24%10 sacksHurry rate
14%6 hurries44 tackles · 13.5 for loss · 10.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Marcus Freeman
Pass share
39.4%
338 pass / 519 run
Plays / game
65.9
13 games
Team sack rate
5.8%
365 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2022
First team on a majority of the recognized selector lists.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #13 at the position.
Selector Grid · 2022
Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.
How it ended
Four seasons at Notre Dame, 26 sacks, an All-American season (2022) — drafted at #40 overall by the New Orleans Saints.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS
Consensus AA (2022)
2 first-team selectors
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Brian Kelly → Marcus Freeman. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
New Orleans SaintsEntering 4th NFL season
New Orleans SaintsEntering 4th NFL season
