John Law: ILB · App State · #88.
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John Law
Carries tight ends down the field in coverage. Third year in the same linebacker corps at App State. On tape: 11 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Toledo, Bowl, 2016.
Play style
Carries tight ends and patrols the middle of the field in coverage.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
57 tackles. 3 passes defended. 1 interception. 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
2016 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-20@ No. 9 Tennessee | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-7vs Old Dominion | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 10-45vs No. 25 Miami | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-3vs Georgia State | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-10@ Georgia Southern | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-10vs Texas State | 8 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-28@ Troy | 9 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-17vs UL Monroe | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 37-7@ New Mexico State | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 31-28vs Toledo | 11 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 57 | 34 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 3 |
Bowl · 2016
W 31-28
vs Toledo · neutral site
1 tackle for loss · 11 tackles · 6 solo tackles
Edged out Toledo at a neutral site in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
57tackles this seasonTFL rate
9%5 TFLSack rate
2%1 sackPD rate
5%3 pass breakups57 tackles · 5 for loss · 1 sack · 1 interception.
3 seasons under Scott Satterfield, all run-heavy offenses — 28-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 4.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 6.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Pass share
36.9%
332 pass / 568 run
Plays / game
69.2
13 games
Team sack rate
4.5%
332 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at App State, 57 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Scott Satterfield.
