Jacob Onyechi: LB · Air Force · #48.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jacob Onyechi
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Second year in the same linebacker corps at Air Force. One game to point at: 8 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against San José State — Week 12, 2016.
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
40 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 7.5 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.
Colorado Springs Gazette Oct 26Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-21vs Abilene Christian | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 48-14vs Georgia State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 27-20@ Utah State | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-14vs Navy | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 26-35@ Wyoming | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-12@ Army | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-46vs Colorado State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 41-38@ San José State | 8 | 7 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 27-20vs No. 20 Boise State | 5 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 45-21vs South Alabama | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 40 | 25 | 7.5 | 2.0 | — | 3 |
Week 13 · 2016
W 27-20
vs Boise State
2 tackles for loss · 5 tackles · 3 solo tackles
A close one, won by 7 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
40tackles this seasonTFL rate
19%8 TFLSack rate
5%2 sacksPD rate
8%3 pass breakups40 tackles · 7.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under Troy Calhoun — 20-6 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 4.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 4.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Troy Calhoun
Pass share
15.7%
150 pass / 806 run
Plays / game
73.5
13 games
Team sack rate
9.9%
162 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Air Force, 40 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Troy Calhoun.
