Nelson Adams: DL · Mississippi State · #94.
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Nelson Adams
Wins the gap play after play. A game that shows it: 5 tackles against Arkansas — Week 12, 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
25 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 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.
The Clarion-Ledger Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Mississippi State | 25 | 10 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 |
| Career | 25 | 10 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 20-21vs South Alabama | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 27-14vs South Carolina | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 47-35@ Massachusetts | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-38vs Auburn | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-28@ BYU | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 38-40@ Kentucky | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 56-41vs Samford | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-28vs No. 7 Texas A&M | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 42-58vs Arkansas | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 55-20@ Ole Miss | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 25 | 10 | 2.5 | 2.5 | — | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
10%2 TFLSack rate
10%2 sacksHurry rate
4%1 hurry25 tackles · 2.5 for loss · 2.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Mullen
Pass share
44.3%
411 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
71.4
13 games
Team sack rate
4.3%
440 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
One season at Mississippi State, 2 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dan Mullen.
