Pat O'Connor: DL · Eastern Michigan · #52.
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Pat O'Connor
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. On tape: 6 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against Ball State, Week 11, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
39 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 13 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 | Eastern Michigan | 39 | 15 | 13.0 | 7.5 | 3 |
| Career | 39 | 15 | 13.0 | 7.5 | 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
2016 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 61-14vs Mississippi Valley State | 6 | 3 | 2.5 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 2 | L 21-61@ Missouri | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-19@ Charlotte | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 27-24vs Wyoming | 4 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-25@ Bowling Green | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 20-35vs Toledo | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 31-45@ No. 20 Western Michigan | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 15-28vs Miami (OH) | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 48-41@ Ball State | 6 | 1 | 2.0 | 1.5 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-31vs Northern Illinois | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 26-21vs Central Michigan | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 20-24vs Old Dominion | 4 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.5 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 39 | 15 | 13.0 | 7.5 | — | 3 |
Week 1 · 2016
W 61-14
2 sacks · 2.5 tackles for loss · 6 tackles
Dominant 47-point win at home against Mississippi Valley State.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
33%13 TFLSack rate
19%8 sacksHurry rate
36%14 hurries39 tackles · 13 for loss · 7.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Creighton
Pass share
52.5%
518 pass / 468 run
Plays / game
75.8
13 games
Team sack rate
2.4%
546 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
39 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 Eastern Michigan, 8 sacks — drafted at #250 overall by the Detroit Lions.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Ron English, Stan Parrish, and Chris Creighton. Multi-era developmental context.
Next stop · NFL
Detroit LionsEntering 10th NFL season
Detroit LionsEntering 10th NFL season
