Justin Lucas: LB · Troy · #13.
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Justin Lucas
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. Two seasons in the Troy linebacker corps to date. One game to point at: 6 tackles against Georgia Southern — Week 14, 2016.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
46 tackles. 0 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 6.5 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 57-17vs Austin Peay | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 24-30@ No. 2 Clemson | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-31@ Southern Miss | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 52-6vs New Mexico State | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-13@ Idaho | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 28-21@ South Alabama | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 52-31vs Massachusetts | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 28-24vs App State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 3-35vs Arkansas State | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 40-7@ Texas State | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-28@ Georgia Southern | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 28-23vs Ohio | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 46 | 30 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 |
Bowl · 2016
W 28-23
vs Ohio · neutral site
1 interception · 1 tackle for loss · 5 tackles
A close one, won by 5 at a neutral site.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
46tackles this seasonTFL rate
14%6 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksPD rate
0%0 pass breakups46 tackles · 6.5 for loss · 2 interceptions.
2 seasons under Neal Brown, all balanced offenses — 14-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Troy, 46 tackles — the college career is complete.
