Luke Maclean: DL · Eastern Michigan · #8.
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Luke Maclean
Wins the gap play after play. Third year in the Eastern Michigan defensive front. A game that shows it: 7 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Ball State — Week 10, 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
43 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 7 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Eastern Michigan | 43 | 23 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2016 | Eastern Michigan | 10 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 3 | -- |
| 2015 | Eastern Michigan | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 53 | 25 | 9.0 | 4.5 | 4 | 1 |
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 | W 24-7vs Charlotte | 4 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 16-13@ Rutgers | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-27vs Ohio | 5 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 20-24@ Kentucky | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 15-20@ Toledo | 7 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 27-28@ Army | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-20vs Western Michigan | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 27-30@ Northern Illinois | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 56-14vs Ball State | 7 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 30-42@ Central Michigan | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 27-24@ Miami (OH) | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 34-31vs Bowling Green | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 43 | 23 | 7.0 | 4.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
16%7 TFLSack rate
9%4 sacksHurry rate
9%4 hurries43 tackles · 7 for loss · 4 sacks.
3 seasons under Chris Creighton — 13-24 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Road7g | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Creighton
Pass share
51.2%
431 pass / 410 run
Plays / game
70.1
12 games
Team sack rate
3.6%
467 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
43 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Eastern Michigan, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Chris Creighton.
