Michael Barton: LB · Arizona · #11.
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Michael Barton
Ranges from hash to hash and finishes the tackle. The two seasons span two programs and two head coaches: Sonny Dykes and Rich Rodriguez. A game that shows it: 12 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Utah — Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
65 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 8 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 | Arizona | 65 | 47 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 1 | -- | 1 |
| 2015 | California | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Career | 65 | 47 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 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
2016 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 31-21vs Grambling | 8 | 6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 47-28vs Hawai'i | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 28-35vs No. 9 Washington | 6 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-45@ UCLA | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 23-36@ No. 24 Utah | 12 | 7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 14-48vs USC | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 10-34vs Stanford | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-49vs No. 16 Colorado | 7 | 5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 17-42@ Oregon State | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 56-35vs Arizona State | 8 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 65 | 47 | 8.0 | 3.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
65tackles this seasonTFL rate
12%8 TFLSack rate
5%3 sacksPD rate
2%1 pass breakups65 tackles · 8 for loss · 3 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 6.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Road3g | 7.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 7.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 5.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rich Rodriguez
Pass share
37.7%
303 pass / 501 run
Plays / game
67.0
12 games
Team sack rate
7.1%
283 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons, at California and Arizona, 65 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Jeff Tedford, Sonny Dykes and Rich Rodriguez.
