Jamaal Payton: LB · Northern Illinois · #33.
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Jamaal Payton
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. A game that shows it: 11 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Toledo — Week 11, 2016.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
76 tackles. 2 passes defended. 1 interception. 8.5 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Northern Illinois | 76 | 49 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 2 | 1 |
| Career | 76 | 49 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 2 | 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 1 | L 34-40@ Wyoming | 8 | 6 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 17-48@ South Florida | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-42vs San Diego State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 23-28vs Western Illinois | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-24@ Ball State | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 6 | L 30-45@ Western Michigan | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 28-34vs Central Michigan | 8 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 44-7vs Buffalo | 7 | 4 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 10 | W 45-20vs Bowling Green | 7 | 5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-31vs Toledo | 11 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 31-24@ Eastern Michigan | 10 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-21@ Kent State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 76 | 49 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 1 | 2 |
Week 8 · 2016
W 44-7
vs Buffalo
1 interception · 2 sacks · 2 tackles for loss
Dominant 37-point win at home against Buffalo.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
76tackles this seasonTFL rate
11%8 TFLSack rate
4%3 sacksPD rate
3%2 pass breakups76 tackles · 8.5 for loss · 3 sacks · 1 interception.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 6.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 7.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rod Carey
Pass share
42.8%
402 pass / 538 run
Plays / game
78.3
12 games
Team sack rate
1.5%
392 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Northern Illinois, 76 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Rod Carey.
