5′11″ · 187 lb · North Las Vegas, NV · Legacy
Casey Hughes: DB · Utah · #35.
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Casey Hughes
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. He has spent two seasons in the Utah secondary. A game that shows it: 6 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against UCLA — Week 10, 2017.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
29 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 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 him by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-16vs North Dakota | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 19-13@ BYU | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 54-16vs San José State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 30-24@ Arizona | 6 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 6 | L 20-23vs Stanford | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-28@ No. 13 USC | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-30vs Arizona State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-41@ Oregon | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 48-17vs UCLA | 6 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 34-13vs Colorado | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 29 | 21 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 |
Week 2 · 2017
W 19-13
at BYU
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 1 tackle
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 6 on the road.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
3%1 pass breakupsTackle volume
29tackles this seasonTFL rate
9%2 TFL29 tackles · 2.5 for loss · 1 sack · 1 pass breakup.
2 seasons under Kyle Whittingham — 16-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kyle Whittingham
Pass share
45.5%
427 pass / 512 run
Plays / game
72.2
13 games
Team sack rate
7.9%
484 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Utah, 34 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kyle Whittingham.
