Joe Previte: DL · Massachusetts · #98.
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Joe Previte
Wins the gap play after play. Third year in the Massachusetts defensive front. One game to point at: 5 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against Liberty — Week 10, 2018.
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
35 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 7 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 | Massachusetts | 35 | 12 | 7.0 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | Massachusetts | 25 | 10 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | Massachusetts | 22 | 4 | 4.5 | 1.5 |
| Career | 82 | 26 | 14.5 | 2.0 |
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 | W 63-15vs Duquesne | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 1 | L 21-55@ Boston College | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 13-34@ Georgia Southern | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 24-63@ Florida International | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 49-31vs Charlotte | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 42-58@ Ohio | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 42-58vs South Florida | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 13-24vs Coastal Carolina | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 22-17@ UConn | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 62-59vs Liberty | 5 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 16-35vs BYU | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 27-66@ No. 5 Georgia | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 35 | 12 | 7.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
20%7 TFLSack rate
1%0 sacksHurry rate
3%1 hurry35 tackles · 7 for loss · 0.5 sacks.
3 seasons under Mark Whipple — 10-26 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Whipple
Pass share
50.7%
413 pass / 402 run
Plays / game
67.9
12 games
Team sack rate
8.5%
459 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
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 Massachusetts, 2 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mark Whipple.
