Shaq Jones: LB · UAB · #42.
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Shaq Jones
Fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge. Arrived as a two-star recruit; two seasons of production at UAB since. One game to point at: 9 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against Louisiana Tech — Week 6, 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
57 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 13.5 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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-7vs Alabama A&M | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 31-51@ Ball State | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 30-23vs Coastal Carolina | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 43-46@ North Texas | 5 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 23-22vs Louisiana Tech | 9 | 8 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 25-23vs Middle Tennessee | 5 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-25@ Charlotte | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 30-12@ Southern Miss | 7 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 52-21vs Rice | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-19@ UTSA | 6 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 7-36@ Florida | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-7vs UTEP | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 6-41vs Ohio | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 57 | 39 | 13.5 | 2.0 | — | 2 |
Week 6 · 2017
W 23-22
1 sack · 1.5 tackles for loss · 9 tackles
A close one, won by 1 at home.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
57tackles this seasonTFL rate
24%14 TFLSack rate
4%2 sacksPD rate
4%2 pass breakups57 tackles · 13.5 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under Bill Clark — 14-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.3 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.0 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Clark
Pass share
39.5%
342 pass / 524 run
Plays / game
66.6
13 games
Team sack rate
6.2%
372 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at UAB, 57 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Garrick McGee → Bill Clark. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
