Senior linebacker for East Carolina. 2018: 40 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
6′1″ · 215 lb · Lithonia, GA
Recruiting
OLB recruit
No. 1457 nationally · Signed with East Carolina
Statement game18 tacklesvs Navy (FBS) · L 31-66
Top 0.1% tackles game since 2021.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 linebacker for East Carolina. 2018: 40 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
Ray Tillman
Third year in the East Carolina linebacker corps, same address the whole way. One game to point at: 10 tackles, 3 TFL against UConn — Week 12, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at East Carolina, 77 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Scottie Montgomery.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Scottie Montgomery, all pass-leaning, fast tempo offenses — 9-27 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: tackles for loss (81st percentile). Concern: passes defended (19th 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 5.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 4.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 5.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Blake Harrell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | East Carolina | 40 | 23 | 6.0 | 1.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | East Carolina | 11 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | East Carolina | 26 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 77 | 45 | 6.0 | 1.5 | 1 | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 23-28vs North Carolina A&T | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 37-35vs Old Dominion | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 6-49@ Temple | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-42vs Houston | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-37vs UCF | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 41-59vs Memphis | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 18-24@ Tulane | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 55-21vs UConn | 10 | 5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Total | 40 | 23 | 6.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
40 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6 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.