Senior defensive lineman on Pittsburgh's 2018 roster.
6′4″ · 250 lb · Cocoa, FL
The story
4 defensive lineman on Pittsburgh's roster.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearJames Folston Jr.
He has spent three seasons in the Pittsburgh defensive front. One game to point at: 3 tackles against Miami — Week 13, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Pittsburgh, 2 sacks — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Pat Narduzzi.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Pat Narduzzi — 20-19 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (8th 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
2018 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Narduzzi
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Pittsburgh | 14 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Pittsburgh | 21 | 17 | 2.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Pittsburgh | 9 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 44 | 29 | 3.0 | 1.5 | -- | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2018
W 44–37
vs Syracuse
3 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 QB HUR
Edged out Syracuse at home in a shootout.
With Q. Ollison — 192 rush yds (24 car) · 1 TD · K. Christodoulou — 42 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 52 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 33-7vs UAlbany | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-19vs Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 35-38@ North Carolina | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 14-45@ UCF | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-37vs Syracuse | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 14-19@ Notre Dame | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-13@ Wake Forest | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 3-24@ Miami | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 10-42vs Clemson | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
14 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.