Jeff Holland: OLB · Auburn · #4.
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Jeff Holland
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Two seasons in the Auburn linebacker corps to date. The first one came in 2017: All-SEC. One game to point at: 6 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Texas A&M — Week 10, 2017.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
40 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 12 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.
Yahoo Sports Oct 26
USA Today Oct 18
On3 Oct 17Swipe 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
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-7vs Georgia Southern | 5 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 6-14@ No. 3 Clemson | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-10vs Mercer | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 51-14@ Missouri | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 49-10vs No. 24 Mississippi State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-23vs Ole Miss | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 23-27@ LSU | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 8 | W 52-20@ Arkansas | 3 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 42-27@ Texas A&M | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 42-14vs UL Monroe | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 26-14vs No. 1 Alabama | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 7-28vs No. 6 Georgia | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 27-34vs No. 10 UCF | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 26 | 12.0 | 9.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
40tackles this seasonTFL rate
30%12 TFLSack rate
22%9 sacksPD rate
2%1 pass breakups40 tackles · 12 for loss · 9 sacks.
2 seasons under Gus Malzahn, all run-heavy offenses — 18-9 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.6 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Gus Malzahn
Pass share
37.5%
382 pass / 636 run
Plays / game
72.7
14 games
Team sack rate
8.4%
419 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Two seasons at Auburn, 53 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2017) — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SEC · 1ST TEAM
All-SEC 1st team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Gus Malzahn.
