Joe Dineen Jr.: LB · Kansas · #29.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Joe Dineen Jr.
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. Played for two head coaches at Kansas: Charlie Weis and David Beaty. On tape: 16 tackles against Nicholls, Week 1, 2018.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
142 tackles. 2 passes defended. 1 interception. 10.5 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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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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 23-26vs Nicholls | 16 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 16 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 31-7@ Central Michigan | 14 | 8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 55-14vs Rutgers | 10 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-26@ Baylor | 13 | 11 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 28-48vs Oklahoma State | 10 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 22-38@ No. 9 West Virginia | 8 | 8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 16-48@ Texas Tech | 7 | 7 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 27-26vs TCU | 13 | 9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 3-27vs Iowa State | 14 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-21@ Kansas State | 9 | 8 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 12 | L 40-55@ No. 6 Oklahoma | 14 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-24vs No. 11 Texas | 14 | 11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 142 | 109 | 10.5 | 3.0 | 1 | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
142tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%10 TFLSack rate
2%3 sacksPD rate
1%2 pass breakups142 tackles · 10.5 for loss · 3 sacks · 1 interception.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 12.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 10.8 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 11.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 11.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Beaty
Pass share
48.5%
392 pass / 417 run
Plays / game
67.4
12 games
Team sack rate
7.0%
430 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
142 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Kansas, 288 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Charlie Weis → David Beaty. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
