Junior Gnonkonde: DE · Troy · #44.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Junior Gnonkonde
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. A game that shows it: 6 tackles against Georgia Southern — Week 14, 2016.
Play style
No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
36 tackles. 7 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Troy | 36 | 27 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 7 |
| Career | 36 | 27 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 7 |
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 · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 57-17vs Austin Peay | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 24-30@ No. 2 Clemson | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 52-6vs New Mexico State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-13@ Idaho | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 31-21vs Georgia State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 28-21@ South Alabama | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 52-31vs Massachusetts | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 28-24vs App State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 3-35vs Arkansas State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 40-7@ Texas State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-28@ Georgia Southern | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 36 | 27 | 3.0 | 2.0 | — | 7 |
Week 8 · 2016
W 28-21
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 5 tackles
A close one, won by 7 on the road.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
6%2 sacksTFL rate
8%3 TFLHurry rate
6%2 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
50%2 of 4 pressures36 tackles · 3 for loss · 2 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Neal Brown
Pass share
50.8%
491 pass / 475 run
Plays / game
74.3
13 games
Team sack rate
1.4%
427 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
36 tackles in 11 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Troy, 2 sacks — the college career is complete.
