Senior linebacker for Northwestern. 2018: 51 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss.
6′2″ · 231 lb · Toledo, OH
The story
4 linebacker for Northwestern. 2018: 51 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearNate Hall
Third year in the Northwestern linebacker corps, same address the whole way. The receipt: 10 tackles, 1 TFL against Purdue — Week 1, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Northwestern, 205 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Pat Fitzgerald.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Pat Fitzgerald — 26-14 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: interceptions (89th percentile). Concern: passes defended (19th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 6.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 6.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Braun
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 1 game in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Northwestern | 51 | 32 | 5.5 | 0.0 | -- | 3 | -- |
| 2017 | Northwestern | 81 | 49 | 17.5 | 5.0 | 6 | 2 | -- |
| 2016 | Northwestern | 73 | 43 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 205 | 124 | 29.0 | 5.0 | 8 | 5 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-27@ Purdue | 10 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 7-21vs Duke | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 34-39vs Akron | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 17-20vs Michigan | 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-17vs Wisconsin | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-31vs Notre Dame | 9 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 14-10@ Iowa | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 24-14@ Minnesota | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-45@ Ohio State | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 51 | 32 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
51 tackles. 0 passes defended. 3 interceptions. 5.5 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.