Mario Jones: DT · Northern Illinois · #92.
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Mario Jones
Wins the gap play after play. On tape: 3 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Western Michigan, Week 6, 2016.
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
16 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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| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Northern Illinois | 16 | 9 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Career | 16 | 9 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
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
2016 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 34-40@ Wyoming | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 17-48@ South Florida | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-42vs San Diego State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 23-28vs Western Illinois | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-24@ Ball State | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 30-45@ Western Michigan | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-24@ Eastern Michigan | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-21@ Kent State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Week 5 · 2016
W 31-24
at Ball State
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 3 tackles
A close one, won by 7 on the road.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
12%2 TFLSack rate
6%1 sackHurry rate
6%1 hurry16 tackles · 2 for loss · 1 sack.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rod Carey
Pass share
42.8%
402 pass / 538 run
Plays / game
78.3
12 games
Team sack rate
1.5%
392 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Northern Illinois, 16 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dave Doeren → Rod Carey. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
