Jerry Tillery: DL · Notre Dame · #99.
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Jerry Tillery
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Third year in the Notre Dame defensive front. The first career honor came in 2018: All-America (CBS). On tape: 6 tackles and 4 sacks against Stanford, Week 5, 2018.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
29 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 9.5 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Notre Dame | 29 | 18 | 9.5 | 8.0 |
| 2017 | Notre Dame | 53 | 23 | 9.0 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | Notre Dame | 37 | 19 | 3.5 | 0.0 |
| Career | 119 | 60 | 22.0 | 12.5 |
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
2018 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-17vs No. 14 Michigan | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 2 | W 24-16vs Ball State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 22-17vs Vanderbilt | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 56-27@ Wake Forest | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 38-17vs No. 7 Stanford | 6 | 4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 45-23@ No. 24 Virginia Tech | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 19-14vs Pittsburgh | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 44-22vs Navy | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-21@ Northwestern | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-13vs Florida State | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 24-17@ USC | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 29 | 18 | 9.5 | 8.0 | — | 0 |
Week 5 · 2018
W 38-17
vs Stanford
4 sacks · 4 tackles for loss · 6 tackles
Dominant 21-point win at home against Stanford.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
33%10 TFLSack rate
28%8 sacksHurry rate
17%5 hurries29 tackles · 9.5 for loss · 8 sacks.
3 seasons under Brian Kelly — 26-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Kelly
Pass share
44.9%
419 pass / 514 run
Plays / game
71.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.1%
451 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Notre Dame, 12 sacks — drafted at #28 overall by the Los Angeles Chargers.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Brian Kelly.
Next stop · NFL
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 8th NFL season
Los Angeles ChargersEntering 8th NFL season
