Taco Charlton: DE · Michigan · #33.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Taco Charlton
Collapses the pocket even when the sack doesn't come. The first one came in 2016: All-Big Ten. On tape: 5 tackles against Illinois, Week 8, 2016.
Play style
Collapses the pocket even when the sack doesn't come.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
39 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 13 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 | Michigan | 39 | 20 | 13.0 | 9.5 | 2 |
| Career | 39 | 20 | 13.0 | 9.5 | 2 |
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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-3vs Hawai'i | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 49-10vs Penn State | 3 | 1 | 2.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 14-7vs No. 8 Wisconsin | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 78-0@ Rutgers | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 8 | W 41-8vs Illinois | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 32-23@ Michigan State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 13-14@ Iowa | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 20-10vs Indiana | 4 | 2 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 13 | L 27-30@ No. 2 Ohio State | 9 | 6 | 3.0 | 2.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
 Bowl | L 32-33vs No. 10 Florida State | 5 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 39 | 20 | 13.0 | 9.5 | — | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
24%10 sacksTFL rate
33%13 TFLHurry rate
21%8 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
54%10 of 18 pressures39 tackles · 13 for loss · 9.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 4.8 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.2 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jim Harbaugh
Pass share
39.7%
370 pass / 563 run
Plays / game
71.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.6%
393 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2016
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
One season at Michigan, 10 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — drafted at #28 overall by the Dallas Cowboys.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG TEN · 1ST TEAM
All-Big Ten 1st team (2016)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Brady Hoke → Jim Harbaugh. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Dallas CowboysEntering 10th NFL season
Dallas CowboysEntering 10th NFL season
