Josh Black: LB · South Florida · #55.
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Josh Black
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Played for two head coaches in three seasons at South Florida. One game to point at: 9 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Tulane — Week 10, 2018.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
52 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | South Florida | 52 | 25 | 10.0 | 5.0 | -- |
| 2017 | South Florida | 18 | 10 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
| 2016 | South Florida | 7 | 5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -- |
| Career | 77 | 40 | 14.5 | 6.5 | 1 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 34-14vs Elon | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 49-38vs Georgia Tech | 6 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 25-19vs Illinois | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 20-13vs East Carolina | 6 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 58-42@ Massachusetts | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 7 | W 25-24@ Tulsa | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 38-30vs UConn | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 36-57@ Houston | 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 15-41vs Tulane | 9 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 11 | L 23-35@ No. 25 Cincinnati | 6 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 17-27@ Temple | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-38vs No. 8 UCF | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 20-38vs Marshall | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 52 | 25 | 10.0 | 5.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
52tackles this seasonTFL rate
19%10 TFLSack rate
10%5 sacksPD rate
0%0 pass breakups52 tackles · 10 for loss · 5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.3 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Charlie Strong
Pass share
45.9%
429 pass / 506 run
Plays / game
71.9
13 games
Team sack rate
7.8%
423 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2018
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at South Florida, 77 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Willie Taggart → Charlie Strong. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
