Tae Hayes: DB · App State · #17.
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Tae Hayes
Hits like a linebacker and still takes the ball away. Arrived as a two-star recruit; four seasons of production at App State since. On tape: 6 tackles against Penn State, Week 1, 2018.
Play style
Hits like a linebacker and still takes the ball away.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
43 tackles. 6 passes defended. 4 interceptions. 3 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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Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 38-45@ No. 10 Penn State | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-9@ Charlotte | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 72-7vs Gardner-Webb | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 52-7vs South Alabama | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-9@ Arkansas State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-17vs Louisiana | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-34@ Georgia Southern | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 23-7@ Coastal Carolina | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-7@ Texas State | 3 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 45-17vs Georgia State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 21-10vs Troy | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 30-19vs Louisiana | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
 Bowl | W 45-13vs Middle Tennessee | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | |
| Total | 43 | 30 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 6 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
14%6 pass breakupsInterceptions
4interceptionsTackle volume
43tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%3 TFL43 tackles · 3 for loss · 6 pass breakups · 4 interceptions.
4 seasons under Scott Satterfield, all run-heavy offenses — 41-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Road6g | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 3.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Pass share
37.5%
320 pass / 534 run
Plays / game
65.7
13 games
Team sack rate
5.2%
346 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2018
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at App State, 114 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
1 coachPlayed every college season under Scott Satterfield.
