Nick Internicola: DL · Florida Atlantic · #8.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Nick Internicola
Wins the gap play after play. Played for two head coaches in two seasons at Florida Atlantic. A game that shows it: 5 tackles against Louisiana Tech — Week 11, 2017.
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
17 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2 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 Roost Oct 20Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Florida Atlantic | 17 | 6 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | Florida Atlantic | 12 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Career | 29 | 11 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
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
2017 season · 9 games
Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 19-42vs Navy | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 14-31@ No. 9 Wisconsin | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-0vs Bethune-Cookman | 3 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 58-28@ Old Dominion | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 69-31vs North Texas | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 48-23@ Louisiana Tech | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 31-12@ Charlotte | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 41-17vs North Texas | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 50-3vs Akron | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 17 | 6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Week 3 · 2017
W 45-0
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 3 tackles
Dominant 45-point win at home against Bethune-Cookman.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
12%2 TFLSack rate
6%1 sackHurry rate
0%0 hurries17 tackles · 2 for loss · 1 sack.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lane Kiffin
Pass share
35.4%
361 pass / 658 run
Plays / game
72.8
14 games
Team sack rate
4.1%
394 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Florida Atlantic, 1 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Charlie Partridge → Lane Kiffin. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
