Nate Holley: S · Kent State · #18.
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Nate Holley
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Rated a two-star prospect, with two seasons of snaps at Kent State since. One game to point at: 17 tackles against Monmouth — Week 3, 2016.
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
111 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 4.5 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Kent State | 111 | 80 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2015 | Kent State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 111 | 80 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 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 · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-33@ Penn State | 17 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 17 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 36-39vs North Carolina A&T | 13 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 27-7vs Monmouth | 17 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 0-48@ No. 1 Alabama | 14 | 12 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-31vs Akron | 12 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-20@ Buffalo | 13 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-18@ Miami (OH) | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-14vs Ohio | 9 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 27-24@ Central Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 111 | 80 | 4.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
1%1 pass breakupsTackle volume
111tackles this seasonTFL rate
4%4 TFL111 tackles · 4.5 for loss · 1 sack · 1 pass breakup.
2 seasons under Paul Haynes — 6-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 12.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 12.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 13.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 9.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Paul Haynes
Pass share
38.4%
292 pass / 469 run
Plays / game
63.4
12 games
Team sack rate
10.3%
271 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
More tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Kent State, 111 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Paul Haynes.
