Preston Gordon: DL · Texas Tech · #99.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Preston Gordon
Wins the gap play after play. The three seasons span two programs and two head coaches: David Bailiff and Kliff Kingsbury. On tape: 5 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Houston, Week 3, 2018.
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
21 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 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.
Yahoo Sports Nov 3
On3 Oct 28
Heartland College Sports Oct 24Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Texas Tech | 21 | 7 | 2.5 | 0.0 | -- |
| 2017 | Rice | 34 | 18 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 2 |
| 2016 | Rice | 31 | 19 | 6.5 | 3.5 | -- |
| Career | 86 | 44 | 13.5 | 4.5 | 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
2018 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 27-47vs Ole Miss | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 77-0vs Lamar | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 63-49vs Houston | 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 41-17@ No. 15 Oklahoma State | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 34-42vs No. 12 West Virginia | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 48-16vs Kansas | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 31-40@ Iowa State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 46-51vs No. 7 Oklahoma | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 34-41vs No. 15 Texas | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-35vs Baylor | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 21 | 7 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Week 4 · 2018
W 41-17
1.5 tackles for loss · 2 tackles · 1 solo tackle
Dominant 24-point win on the road against Oklahoma State.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
12%2 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
5%1 hurry21 tackles · 2.5 for loss.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kliff Kingsbury
Pass share
55.8%
536 pass / 424 run
Plays / game
80.0
12 games
Team sack rate
4.2%
574 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2018
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons, at Rice and Texas Tech, 4 sacks — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 32 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: David Bailiff and Kliff Kingsbury.
