Jon Cunningham: DT · Kent State · #90.
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Jon Cunningham
Wins the gap play after play. A two-star recruit with two seasons on the field at Kent State since. On tape: 7 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Bowling Green, Week 10, 2017.
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
51 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 10 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Kent State | 51 | 26 | 10.0 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | Kent State | 34 | 14 | 4.5 | 1.0 |
| Career | 85 | 40 | 14.5 | 2.5 |
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
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 3-56@ No. 5 Clemson | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-31vs Howard | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 0-21@ Marshall | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 3-42@ No. 19 Louisville | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-27vs Buffalo | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 3-24@ Northern Illinois | 6 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 17-14vs Miami (OH) | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 3-48@ Ohio | 4 | 3 | 3.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 10 | L 16-44vs Bowling Green | 7 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 20-48@ Western Michigan | 4 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 23-42vs Central Michigan | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-24@ Akron | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 51 | 26 | 10.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
20%10 TFLSack rate
3%2 sacksHurry rate
4%2 hurries51 tackles · 10 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Paul Haynes, all run-heavy offenses — 5-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road7g | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.4 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Paul Haynes
Pass share
31.2%
234 pass / 515 run
Plays / game
62.4
12 games
Team sack rate
15.5%
290 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
51 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Kent State, 85 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Paul Haynes.
