Justin Akins: DE · Middle Tennessee · #91.
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Justin Akins
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Second year in the Middle Tennessee defensive front. On tape: 4 tackles against Marshall, Week 11, 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
27 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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 | Middle Tennessee | 27 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | -- |
| 2015 | Middle Tennessee | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 27 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 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
2016 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 24-47@ Vanderbilt | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-21@ Bowling Green | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-34vs Louisiana Tech | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 30-13@ North Texas | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 43-44vs Western Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 51-45@ Missouri | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 42-35@ Florida International | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 25-45vs UTSA | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-42@ Marshall | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 38-31@ Charlotte | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | L 35-52vs Hawai'i | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 27 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 4 |
Week 8 · 2016
W 51-45
at Missouri
4 tackles · 1 pass breakup · 3 solo tackles
Edged out Missouri on the road in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
0%0 sacksTFL rate
0%0 TFL27 tackles.
2 seasons under Rick Stockstill — 15-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road7g | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rick Stockstill
Pass share
57.6%
556 pass / 410 run
Plays / game
74.3
13 games
Team sack rate
2.8%
535 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Middle Tennessee — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Rick Stockstill.
