Senior defensive end for North Carolina. 2018: 6.5 sacks, 12.5 tackles for loss, 60 tackles.
6′3″ · 235 lb · Alexandria, VA
The story
4 defensive end for North Carolina. 2018: 6.5 sacks, 12.5 tackles for loss, 60 tackles.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearMalik Carney
Third year in the North Carolina defensive front, same address the whole way. The receipt on tape: 10 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Georgia Tech, Week 10, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at North Carolina, 18 sacks — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Larry Fedora.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Larry Fedora, all balanced offenses — 13-23 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: sacks (97th percentile). Strength: tackles for loss (97th 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
2018 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 7.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 7.5 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 6.7 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 8.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Belichick
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | North Carolina | 60 | 37 | 12.5 | 6.5 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2017 | North Carolina | 57 | 26 | 12.0 | 5.5 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | North Carolina | 47 | 23 | 8.5 | 5.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 164 | 86 | 33.0 | 17.5 | 4 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 12 · 2018
W 49–26
3 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 TFL
Dominant 23-point win at home against Western Carolina.
With A. Ratliff-Williams — 15 rush yds (3 car) · N. Elliott — 308 yds · 2 TD · 2 INT · 6 rush yds (2 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-24@ California | 8 | 7 | 3.5 | 2.5 | — | 0 | 2.5 sacks |
| Wk 5 | L 10-47@ Miami | 5 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 19-22vs Virginia Tech | 7 | 5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 9 | L 21-31@ Virginia | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 28-38vs Georgia Tech | 10 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 11 | L 35-42@ Duke | 8 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 49-26vs Western Carolina | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 28-34vs NC State | 10 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 60 | 37 | 12.5 | 6.5 | — | 2 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
60 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 12.5 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.