Nick Cuthbert: LB · Kent State · #37.
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Nick Cuthbert
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Second year in the Kent State linebacker corps. On tape: 19 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Northern Illinois, Week 13, 2016.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
98 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 8.5 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 | 98 | 52 | 8.5 | 1.0 | 4 | -- |
| 2015 | Kent State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 98 | 52 | 8.5 | 1.0 | 4 | 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 · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-33@ Penn State | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 36-39vs North Carolina A&T | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 0-48@ No. 1 Alabama | 8 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-31vs Akron | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-20@ Buffalo | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-18@ Miami (OH) | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-14vs Ohio | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 27-24@ Central Michigan | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 21-37vs No. 14 Western Michigan | 19 | 11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 19 tackles |
| Wk 12 | L 7-42@ Bowling Green | 18 | 9 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 13 | L 21-31vs Northern Illinois | 19 | 10 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 98 | 52 | 8.5 | 1.0 | — | 4 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
98tackles this seasonTFL rate
9%8 TFLSack rate
1%1 sackPD rate
4%4 pass breakups98 tackles · 8.5 for loss · 1 sack.
2 seasons under Paul Haynes — 6-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 9.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 8.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 6.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 12.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 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
98 tackles in 11 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Kent State, 98 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Paul Haynes.
