Noble Nwachukwu: DL · West Virginia · #97.
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Noble Nwachukwu
Wins the gap play after play. One game to point at: 7 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Oklahoma State — Week 9, 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
40 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 7.5 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 | West Virginia | 40 | 28 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 2 |
| Career | 40 | 28 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 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 | W 26-11vs Missouri | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-21vs Youngstown State | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 35-32vs BYU | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-16vs Kansas State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 48-17@ Texas Tech | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-10vs TCU | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-37@ Oklahoma State | 7 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 10 | W 48-21vs Kansas | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 28-56vs No. 8 Oklahoma | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 49-19@ Iowa State | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 24-21vs Baylor | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 14-31vs Miami | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 28 | 7.5 | 4.0 | — | 2 |
Week 8 · 2016
W 34-10
vs TCU
1 sack · 2 tackles for loss · 3 tackles
Dominant 24-point win at home against TCU.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
19%8 TFLSack rate
10%4 sacksHurry rate
8%3 hurries40 tackles · 7.5 for loss · 4 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Road3g | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dana Holgorsen
Pass share
42.0%
409 pass / 564 run
Plays / game
74.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.6%
443 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
40 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at West Virginia, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dana Holgorsen.
