Senior linebacker for Michigan State. 2019: 72 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks.
6′2″ · 231 lb · Brook Park, OH
Recruiting
ILB recruit
No. 1020 nationally · Signed with Michigan State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 linebacker for Michigan State. 2019: 72 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks.
Joe Bachie
He has spent four seasons in the Michigan State linebacker corps. The receipt on tape: 14 tackles, 2 TFL against Northwestern, Week 4, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Michigan State, 279 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mark Dantonio.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Mark Dantonio — 27-24 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: tackles for loss (93rd percentile). Strength: tackles (90th 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
2019 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 7.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Road3g | 11.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 9.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Fitzgerald
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Michigan State | 72 | 37 | 9.5 | 3.5 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| 2018 | Michigan State | 102 | 47 | 9.0 | 1.0 | 5 | 1 | -- |
| 2017 | Michigan State | 94 | 43 | 8.5 | 3.5 | 2 | 3 | -- |
| 2016 | Michigan State | 11 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 279 | 130 | 29.0 | 8.0 | 11 | 5 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 5 · 2019
W 40–31
vs Indiana
7 TOT · 4 SOLO · 1 TFL
Edged out Indiana at home in a shootout.
With B. Lewerke — 300 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 85.1 · 78 rush yds (12 car) · J. Hartbarger — 54 AVG · 60 LONG · 4 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 28-7vs Tulsa | 7 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 51-17vs Western Michigan | 7 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-10vs Arizona State | 12 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 31-10@ Northwestern | 14 | 13 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 2 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 40-31vs Indiana | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-34@ Ohio State | 11 | 6 | 3.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 7 | L 0-38@ Wisconsin | 8 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 7-28vs Penn State | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 72 | 37 | 9.5 | 3.5 | 1 | 4 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
72 tackles. 4 passes defended. 1 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.