Justin Clifton: DB · Arkansas State · #10.
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Justin Clifton
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Rated a two-star prospect, with four seasons of snaps at Arkansas State since. Another came in 2018: All-Sun Belt. One game to point at: 12 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against UNLV — Week 4, 2018.
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
76 tackles. 5 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 6 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 | Arkansas State | 76 | 38 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 2 |
| 2017 | Arkansas State | 63 | 43 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 13 | 1 |
| 2016 | Arkansas State | 88 | 53 | 8.5 | 0.0 | 5 | 2 |
| 2015 | Arkansas State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 227 | 134 | 19.0 | 0.0 | 23 | 6 |
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-21vs Southeast Missouri State | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-57@ No. 1 Alabama | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 29-20@ Tulsa | 7 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 27-20vs UNLV | 12 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 21-28@ Georgia Southern | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 9-35vs App State | 6 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 51-35vs Georgia State | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 43-47@ Louisiana | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-14vs South Alabama | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 44-16@ Coastal Carolina | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-17vs UL Monroe | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | |
 Bowl | L 13-16vs Nevada | 6 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 76 | 38 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
7%5 pass breakupsInterceptions
2interceptionsTackle volume
76tackles this seasonTFL rate
8%6 TFL76 tackles · 6 for loss · 5 pass breakups · 2 interceptions.
4 seasons under Blake Anderson — 32-19 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 6.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 6.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 7.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Blake Anderson
Pass share
48.5%
479 pass / 509 run
Plays / game
76.0
13 games
Team sack rate
4.9%
508 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2018
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at Arkansas State, 227 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2018) — the college career is complete.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT · 1ST TEAM
All-Sun Belt 1st team (2018)
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Blake Anderson.
