Kemoko Turay: DE · Rutgers · #58.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kemoko Turay
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Second year in the same defensive front at Rutgers. On tape: 8 tackles against Nebraska, Week 4, 2017.
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
60 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 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.
The Detroit News Oct 29
247Sports Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
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
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-30vs No. 8 Washington | 5 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 13-16vs Eastern Michigan | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 65-0vs Morgan State | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 4 | L 17-27@ Nebraska | 8 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 0-56vs No. 11 Ohio State | 6 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-24@ Illinois | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 14-12vs Purdue | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-35@ Michigan | 7 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-24vs Maryland | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 6-35@ No. 16 Penn State | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 0-41@ Indiana | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 7-40vs No. 21 Michigan State | 10 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Total | 60 | 32 | 6.0 | 4.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
7%4 sacksTFL rate
10%6 TFLHurry rate
12%7 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
36%4 of 11 pressures60 tackles · 6 for loss · 4 sacks.
2 seasons under Chris Ash — 6-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 5.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Ash
Pass share
38.9%
272 pass / 427 run
Plays / game
58.2
12 games
Team sack rate
6.1%
293 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
60 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Rutgers, 6 sacks — drafted at #52 overall by the Indianapolis Colts.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Kyle Flood → Chris Ash. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Indianapolis ColtsEntering 9th NFL season
Indianapolis ColtsEntering 9th NFL season
