Sam McCaskill: DE · Boise State · #94.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Sam McCaskill
Turns pressure into sacks — pressures become finishes. The first one came in 2016: All-Mountain West. One game to point at: 7 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against UNLV — Week 12, 2016.
Play style
Turns pressure into sacks — when he gets there, he finishes.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
50 tackles. 5 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 14 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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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Boise State | 50 | 30 | 14.0 | 6.5 | 5 |
| Career | 50 | 30 | 14.0 | 6.5 | 5 |
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
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-10@ Louisiana | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 2 | W 31-28vs Washington State | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-24@ Oregon State | 3 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 5 | W 21-10vs Utah State | 5 | 4 | 2.5 | 1.5 | — | 1 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 6 | W 49-21@ New Mexico | 5 | 4 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 7 | W 28-23vs Colorado State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 28-27vs BYU | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 28-30@ Wyoming | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 45-31vs San José State | 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 52-16@ Hawai'i | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-25vs UNLV | 7 | 5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 20-27@ Air Force | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 12-31vs Baylor | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | 30 | 14.0 | 6.5 | — | 5 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
13%6 sacksTFL rate
28%14 TFLHurry rate
2%1 hurryPressure-to-sack conversion
87%6 of 8 pressures50 tackles · 14 for loss · 6.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.0 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bryan Harsin
Pass share
45.4%
405 pass / 488 run
Plays / game
68.7
13 games
Team sack rate
4.0%
423 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
One season at Boise State, 6 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — the college career is complete.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Chris Petersen → Bryan Harsin. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
