Malik Reed: LB · Nevada · #90.
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Malik Reed
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. The three seasons at Nevada span two head coaches: Brian Polian and Jay Norvell. All-Mountain West in 2018 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. A game that shows it: 9 tackles and 1 sack against Colorado State — Week 11, 2018.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
77 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 15.5 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.
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
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 72-19vs Portland State | 6 | 6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 10-41@ Vanderbilt | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-35vs Oregon State | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 44-63@ Toledo | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-25@ Air Force | 7 | 6 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 6 | L 3-21vs Fresno State | 8 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-31vs Boise State | 9 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 8 | W 40-22@ Hawai'i | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-24vs San Diego State | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-10vs Colorado State | 9 | 6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 21-12@ San José State | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 29-34@ UNLV | 7 | 3 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
 Bowl | W 16-13vs Arkansas State | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 77 | 51 | 15.5 | 8.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
77tackles this seasonTFL rate
20%16 TFLSack rate
10%8 sacksPD rate
0%0 pass breakups77 tackles · 15.5 for loss · 8 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 7.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 5.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 6.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.8 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jay Norvell
Pass share
53.2%
494 pass / 434 run
Plays / game
71.4
13 games
Team sack rate
3.5%
519 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2018
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Three seasons at Nevada, 185 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2017) — the college career is complete.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2018)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Brian Polian → Jay Norvell. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
