P.J. Davis: LB · Georgia Tech · #40.
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P.J. Davis
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Second year in the same linebacker corps at Georgia Tech. A game that shows it: 13 tackles against Virginia — Week 12, 2016.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
74 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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 | Georgia Tech | 74 | 38 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2014 | Georgia Tech | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 74 | 38 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 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 | W 17-14vs Boston College | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 35-10vs Mercer | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-7vs Vanderbilt | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-26vs No. 5 Clemson | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-35vs No. 14 Miami | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 34-37@ Pittsburgh | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-48@ No. 18 North Carolina | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 30-20@ No. 18 Virginia Tech | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-17vs Virginia | 13 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 13 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 28-27@ Georgia | 12 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 33-18vs Kentucky | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 74 | 38 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
74tackles this seasonTFL rate
0%0 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksPD rate
1%1 pass breakups74 tackles.
2 seasons under Paul Johnson — 20-7 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 6.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 6.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 8.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Paul Johnson
Pass share
21.0%
159 pass / 597 run
Plays / game
58.2
13 games
Team sack rate
7.7%
181 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Georgia Tech, 74 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Paul Johnson.
