TJ Ricks: LB · Old Dominion · #47.
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TJ Ricks
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Second year in the same linebacker corps at Old Dominion. One game to point at: 14 tackles against UTSA — Week 4, 2016.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
102 tackles. 4 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Old Dominion | 102 | 48 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 4 | -- |
| 2015 | Old Dominion | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 102 | 48 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 4 | 1 |
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 54-21vs Hampton | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-31@ App State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 22-49@ NC State | 11 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 33-19vs UTSA | 14 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 52-17@ Charlotte | 7 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 36-16vs Massachusetts | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-59@ Western Kentucky | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-21@ UTEP | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-14vs Marshall | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 51-35vs Southern Miss | 11 | 5 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 12 | W 42-24@ Florida Atlantic | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-28vs Florida International | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 24-20vs Eastern Michigan | 9 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 102 | 48 | 6.0 | 1.0 | — | 4 |
Week 11 · 2016
W 51-35
2.5 tackles for loss · 11 tackles · 5 solo tackles
Edged out Southern Miss at home in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
102tackles this seasonTFL rate
6%6 TFLSack rate
1%1 sackPD rate
4%4 pass breakups102 tackles · 6 for loss · 1 sack.
2 seasons under Bobby Wilder — 15-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 8.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 7.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 8.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 7.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bobby Wilder
Pass share
43.3%
376 pass / 493 run
Plays / game
66.8
13 games
Team sack rate
5.0%
382 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
102 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than most FBS linebackers who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Old Dominion, 102 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Bobby Wilder.
