Sam Lebbie: LB · Troy · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Sam Lebbie
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Second year in the same linebacker corps at Troy. One game to point at: 7 tackles and 0.5 sacks against Idaho — Week 10, 2017.
Play style
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
56 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 10.5 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.
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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
2017 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-24@ Boise State | 6 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-7vs Alabama State | 4 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 22-17vs Akron | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 24-21@ No. 25 LSU | 6 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 8-19vs South Alabama | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-10@ Georgia State | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 38-16vs Georgia Southern | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-21vs Idaho | 7 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 62-9vs Texas State | 5 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 32-25@ Arkansas State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 50-30vs North Texas | 5 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 56 | 17 | 10.5 | 2.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
56tackles this seasonTFL rate
19%10 TFLSack rate
4%2 sacksPD rate
2%1 pass breakups56 tackles · 10.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under Neal Brown, all balanced offenses — 21-5 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 5.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 5.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Neal Brown
Pass share
53.3%
458 pass / 402 run
Plays / game
66.2
13 games
Team sack rate
3.3%
449 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Troy, 76 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Larry Blakeney → Neal Brown. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
