Kingsley Opara: DL · Maryland · #8.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kingsley Opara
Wins the gap play after play. Second year in the same defensive front at Maryland. One game to point at: 5 tackles against Northwestern — Week 7, 2017.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
25 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2 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
2017 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 51-41@ No. 23 Texas | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 63-17vs Towson | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-38vs UCF | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-24@ Minnesota | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-62@ No. 10 Ohio State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-37vs Northwestern | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 42-39vs Indiana | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 24-31@ Rutgers | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-35vs No. 21 Michigan | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 7-17@ No. 22 Michigan State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 25 | 9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Week 9 · 2017
W 42-39
vs Indiana
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 4 tackles
Edged out Indiana at home in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
8%2 TFLSack rate
4%1 sackHurry rate
4%1 hurry25 tackles · 2 for loss · 1 sack.
2 seasons under D.J. Durkin — 10-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
D.J. Durkin
Pass share
42.7%
318 pass / 426 run
Plays / game
62.0
12 games
Team sack rate
9.0%
366 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Maryland, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Randy Edsall → D.J. Durkin. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
