Senior defensive back for Pittsburgh. 2018: 1 interception, 5 pass breakups, 10 tackles.
5′10″ · 175 lb · Columbus, OH
The story
4 defensive back for Pittsburgh. 2018: 1 interception, 5 pass breakups, 10 tackles.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearPhillipie Motley
This is his third year in the same secondary at Pittsburgh. The receipt: 2 tackles against North Carolina — Week 4, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Pittsburgh, 23 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Pat Narduzzi.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Pat Narduzzi — 20-19 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (88th percentile). Concern: tackles (2nd percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Narduzzi
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Pittsburgh | 10 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 1 | -- |
| 2017 | Pittsburgh | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Pittsburgh | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 23 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2018
W 44–37
vs Syracuse
1 TOT · 1 SOLO
Edged out Syracuse at home in a shootout.
With Q. Ollison — 192 rush yds (24 car) · 1 TD · K. Christodoulou — 42 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 52 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 24-19vs Georgia Tech | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Wk 4 | L 35-38@ North Carolina | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 14-45@ UCF | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-37vs Syracuse | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-19@ Notre Dame | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 54-45vs Duke | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 23-13@ Virginia | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-13@ Wake Forest | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 13-14vs Stanford | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 10 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
10 tackles. 5 passes defended. 1 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.