Linebacker for Purdue. 2017: 69 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 3 sacks.
6′3″ · 235 lb · Birmingham, AL
The story
2017 linebacker for Purdue. 2017: 69 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 3 sacks.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearT.J. McCollum
Third year in the Purdue linebacker corps, same address the whole way. One game to point at: 12 tackles, 1 TFL against Minnesota — Week 6, 2017.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Purdue, 154 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Darrell Hazell, Gerad Parker, and Jeff Brohm. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: solo tackles (89th percentile). Strength: tackles (88th 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
2017 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 9.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 5.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 8.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 7.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Barry Odom
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2017
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Purdue | 69 | 43 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Western Kentucky | 85 | 45 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Western Kentucky | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Career | 154 | 88 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 5 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2017
W 35–3
at Missouri
1 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 TFL
Dominant 32-point win on the road against Missouri.
With D. Blough — 187 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 91.7 · 7 rush yds (7 car) · 1 TD · J. Schopper — 48 AVG · 63 LONG · 4 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 28-35vs Louisville | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 44-21vs Ohio | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 35-3@ Missouri | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-28vs Michigan | 9 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-17vs Minnesota | 12 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 11 | L 13-23@ Northwestern | 10 | 6 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 24-15@ Iowa | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-24vs Indiana | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 38-35vs Arizona | 8 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 69 | 43 | 6.0 | 3.0 | — | 2 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
69 tackles. 2 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.