Senior defensive back on South Florida's 2020 roster.
5′11″ · 180 lb · Tampa, FL
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 550 nationally · Signed with North Carolina
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back on South Florida's roster.
K.J. Sails
K.J. Sails has played for three head coaches across five seasons and two programs. The receipt on tape: 7 tackles against Notre Dame, Week 3, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at South Florida, 103 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2020
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Willie Taggart, Charlie Strong, and Jeff Scott. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: sacks (27th 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
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Hartline
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | South Florida | 22 | 17 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | South Florida | 41 | 33 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| 2018 | North Carolina | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2017 | North Carolina | 30 | 22 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 13 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | North Carolina | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 103 | 79 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 22 | 3 | 2 |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2020
W 27–6
vs The Citadel
2 TOT · 2 SOLO · 1 TFL
Dominant 21-point win at home against The Citadel.
With T. Schneider — 34 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 43 LONG · J. Ford — 71 rush yds (9 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 27-6vs The Citadel | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 0-52@ Notre Dame | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 7-28@ Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-44vs East Carolina | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 37-39@ Temple | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-42vs Tulsa | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 33-34@ Memphis | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 21-56@ Houston | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 22 | 17 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
22 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1.5 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.