Nate Godwin: DB · South Florida · #36.
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Nate Godwin
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Second year in the South Florida secondary. On tape: 10 tackles against Memphis, Week 11, 2016.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
68 tackles. 5 passes defended. 1 interception. 1 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 | South Florida | 68 | 52 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 1 |
| 2014 | South Florida | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 68 | 52 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-20vs Towson | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 48-17vs Northern Illinois | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-20@ Syracuse | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 35-55vs No. 13 Florida State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 45-20@ Cincinnati | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-22vs East Carolina | 10 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 42-27vs UConn | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 30-46@ Temple | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 52-45vs No. 22 Navy | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-42@ Memphis | 10 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 35-27@ SMU | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 48-31vs UCF | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | |
 Bowl | W 46-39vs South Carolina | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 68 | 52 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5 |
Week 11 · 2016
W 49-42
at Memphis
10 tackles · 1 pass breakup · 8 solo tackles
Edged out Memphis on the road in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
7%5 pass breakupsInterceptions
1interceptionsTackle volume
68tackles this seasonTFL rate
1%1 TFL68 tackles · 1 for loss · 5 pass breakups · 1 interception.
2 seasons under Willie Taggart — 15-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Willie Taggart
Pass share
39.0%
358 pass / 559 run
Plays / game
70.5
13 games
Team sack rate
3.7%
352 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
68 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at South Florida, 68 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Willie Taggart.
