Maurice McKnight: S · San José State · #10.
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Maurice McKnight
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Played for two head coaches at San José State: Ron Caragher and Brent Brennan. One game to point at: 11 tackles against Colorado State — Week 12, 2017.
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
88 tackles. 7 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 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 | San José State | 88 | 60 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 7 | -- |
| 2016 | San José State | 68 | 51 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 2 |
| 2015 | San José State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| 2014 | San José State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 156 | 111 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 10 | 4 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 22-42vs No. 19 South Florida | 6 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 1 | W 34-13vs Cal Poly | 8 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 0-56@ Texas | 8 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 16-54@ Utah | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-61vs Utah State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-41@ UNLV | 7 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-27vs Fresno State | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 7 | L 26-37@ Hawai'i | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-41@ BYU | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-52vs San Diego State | 11 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 11 | L 14-59@ Nevada | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 14-42@ Colorado State | 11 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 20-17vs Wyoming | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Total | 88 | 60 | 3.0 | 0.0 | — | 7 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
8%7 pass breakupsTackle volume
88tackles this seasonTFL rate
3%3 TFL88 tackles · 3 for loss · 7 pass breakups.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 6.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Road7g | 7.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 6.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 8.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Brennan
Pass share
46.5%
414 pass / 477 run
Plays / game
68.5
13 games
Team sack rate
7.8%
461 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
88 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at San José State, 156 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Ron Caragher → Brent Brennan. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
