Linebacker for Michigan State. 2016: 76 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss.
6′2″ · Traverse City, MI
Recruiting
OLB recruit
No. 749 nationally · Signed with Michigan State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
2016 linebacker for Michigan State. 2016: 76 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss.
Riley Bullough
Third year in the Michigan State linebacker corps, same address the whole way. One game to point at: 14 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Michigan — Week 9, 2016.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Michigan State, 76 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mark Dantonio.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Mark Dantonio — 26-13 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: qb hurries (98th percentile). Strength: tackles (91st 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
2016 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 10.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 6.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 8.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 8.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Fitzgerald
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2016
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Michigan State | 76 | 20 | 6.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Michigan State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| 2014 | Michigan State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Career | 76 | 20 | 6.5 | 0.0 | -- | 4 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2016
W 36–28
at Notre Dame
4 TOT · 2 SOLO · 1 TFL
Edged out Notre Dame on the road in a shootout.
With T. O'Connor — 241 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 80.6 · 43 rush yds (10 car) · J. Hartbarger — 38 AVG · 42 LONG · 7 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 28-13vs Furman | 8 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 36-28@ Notre Dame | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 40-54vs Northwestern | 12 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-28@ Maryland | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 23-32vs Michigan | 14 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 27-31@ Illinois | 11 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-0vs Rutgers | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 16-17vs Ohio State | 11 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 12-45@ Penn State | 8 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 76 | 20 | 6.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
76 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6.5 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.
Player DNA