Xavier Woods: S · Louisiana Tech · #7.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Xavier Woods
Hits like a linebacker and still takes the ball away. Three seasons in the Louisiana Tech secondary to date. First career honor, 2014: All-Conference USA. A game that shows it: 12 tackles against Southern Miss — Week 13, 2016.
Play style
Hits like a linebacker and still takes the ball away.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
89 tackles. 6 passes defended. 5 interceptions. 6.5 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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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Louisiana Tech | 89 | 60 | 6.5 | 3.0 | 6 | 5 |
| 2015 | Louisiana Tech | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| 2014 | Louisiana Tech | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 6 |
| Career | 89 | 60 | 6.5 | 3.0 | 6 | 14 |
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 · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 20-21@ Arkansas | 10 | 7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 53-24vs South Carolina State | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 45-59@ Texas Tech | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 34-38@ Middle Tennessee | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-7vs UTEP | 8 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 55-52vs Western Kentucky | 9 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 56-28@ Massachusetts | 7 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 44-24@ Florida International | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 61-16vs Rice | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 45-24@ North Texas | 7 | 6 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 1 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 11 | W 63-35vs UTSA | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-39@ Southern Miss | 12 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 14 | L 44-58@ Western Kentucky | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 48-45vs Navy | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 89 | 60 | 6.5 | 3.0 | 5 | 6 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
7%6 pass breakupsInterceptions
5interceptionsTackle volume
89tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%6 TFL89 tackles · 6.5 for loss · 3 sacks · 6 pass breakups · 5 interceptions.
3 seasons under Skip Holtz — 27-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Road8g | 6.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 7.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Skip Holtz
Pass share
57.0%
543 pass / 409 run
Plays / game
68.0
14 games
Team sack rate
4.9%
577 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2016
89 tackles in 14 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Louisiana Tech, 89 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2014) — drafted at #191 overall by the Dallas Cowboys.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA · 1ST TEAM
All-Conference USA 1st team (2014)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Skip Holtz.
Next stop · NFL
Dallas CowboysEntering 10th NFL season
Dallas CowboysEntering 10th NFL season
