Nyles Morgan: LB · Notre Dame · #5.
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Nyles Morgan
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Second year in the Notre Dame linebacker corps. One game to point at: 9 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Michigan State — Week 4, 2017.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
84 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 7 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Notre Dame | 84 | 31 | 7.0 | 1.5 | 1 |
| 2016 | Notre Dame | 88 | 49 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 2 |
| Career | 172 | 80 | 13.0 | 5.5 | 3 |
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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-16vs Temple | 8 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 19-20vs No. 15 Georgia | 7 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 49-20@ Boston College | 9 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 38-18@ Michigan State | 9 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 52-17vs Miami (OH) | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 33-10@ North Carolina | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 49-14vs No. 11 USC | 7 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 35-14vs No. 14 NC State | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 48-37vs Wake Forest | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 24-17vs Navy | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 20-38@ No. 20 Stanford | 7 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 21-17vs No. 16 LSU | 9 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 84 | 31 | 7.0 | 1.5 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
84tackles this seasonTFL rate
8%7 TFLSack rate
2%2 sacksPD rate
1%1 pass breakups84 tackles · 7 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Brian Kelly — 14-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 6.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 7.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 7.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 6.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Kelly
Pass share
38.8%
350 pass / 551 run
Plays / game
69.3
13 games
Team sack rate
7.2%
388 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
84 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Notre Dame, 172 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Brian Kelly.
