Former defensive lineman at Marshall. 2024: 1 sack, 3.5 tackles for loss, 13 tackles.
6′4″ · 290 lb · North Plainfield, NJ
The story
Former defensive lineman at Marshall. 2024: 1 sack, 3.5 tackles for loss, 13 tackles.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearJude Okolo
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Across two seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Tom Herman and Charles Huff. One game to point at: 5 tackles, 1.5 TFL against UL Monroe — Week 10, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Two seasons at Marshall, 2 sacks — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: solo tackles (7th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Gibson
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Marshall | 13 | 5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Florida Atlantic | 8 | 4 | 2.5 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 21 | 9 | 6.0 | 2.0 | -- | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 14 · 2024
W 35–33
1 TOT
Edged out James Madison on the road in a shootout.
With A. Clark — -6 rush yds (1 car) · B. Braxton — 120 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 45.1 · 15 rush yds (17 car) · 1 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 14-31@ Virginia Tech | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 14-49@ Ohio State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 52-37vs App State | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 23-24@ Georgia Southern | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 28-23vs UL Monroe | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 11 | W 37-3@ Southern Miss | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-19vs Coastal Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 35-33@ James Madison | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 13 | 5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
13 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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.
Player DNA
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Trajan Jeffcoat’s 2021 season.
Matches Trajan on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jordan van den Berg's senior season at Georgia Tech (2025).
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Differs from Jordan on
Player DNA