Jay Ellison: DL · Georgia Southern · #99.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Jay Ellison
Wins the gap play after play. Played for two head coaches at Georgia Southern: Willie Fritz and Tyson Summers. First career honor, 2015: All-Sun Belt. A game that shows it: 3 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Louisiana — Week 11, 2016.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
19 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 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 | Georgia Southern | 19 | 8 | 2.5 | 0.0 | -- |
| 2015 | Georgia Southern | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 19 | 8 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 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 · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 54-0vs Savannah State | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 24-9@ South Alabama | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 31-49@ Western Michigan | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 24-35@ Georgia Tech | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 22-19@ New Mexico State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 10-34vs App State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 27-37@ Ole Miss | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 26-33vs Louisiana | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-24vs Troy | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 8 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
13%2 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries19 tackles · 2.5 for loss.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tyson Summers
Pass share
34.1%
264 pass / 510 run
Plays / game
64.5
12 games
Team sack rate
4.9%
286 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Georgia Southern — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT · 2ND TEAM
All-Sun Belt 2nd team (2015)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Willie Fritz → Tyson Summers. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
