Nazair Jones: DT · North Carolina · #90.
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Nazair Jones
Wins the gap play after play. Third year in the North Carolina defensive front. On tape: 9 tackles and 1 sack against Virginia Tech, Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
70 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 9.5 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.
247Sports Nov 3
Syracuse.com Oct 22Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | North Carolina | 70 | 32 | 9.5 | 2.5 | 3 | -- |
| 2015 | North Carolina | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| 2014 | North Carolina | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 70 | 32 | 9.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 2 |
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-33vs No. 18 Georgia | 7 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 48-23@ Illinois | 7 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-36vs Pittsburgh | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 37-35@ No. 12 Florida State | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 3-34vs No. 25 Virginia Tech | 9 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 20-13@ No. 16 Miami | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 35-14@ Virginia | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 48-20vs Georgia Tech | 8 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 27-28@ Duke | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 41-7vs The Citadel | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 21-28vs NC State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 23-25vs No. 16 Stanford | 8 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 70 | 32 | 9.5 | 2.5 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
14%10 TFLSack rate
4%2 sacksHurry rate
1%1 hurry70 tackles · 9.5 for loss · 2.5 sacks.
3 seasons under Larry Fedora — 25-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 6.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 4.8 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 6.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Larry Fedora
Pass share
53.3%
457 pass / 400 run
Plays / game
65.9
13 games
Team sack rate
4.2%
480 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
70 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at North Carolina, 70 tackles — drafted at #102 overall by the Seattle Seahawks.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Larry Fedora.
Next stop · NFL
Seattle SeahawksEntering 10th NFL season
Seattle SeahawksEntering 10th NFL season
