5′11″ · 205 lb · Glen Mills, PA · Unionville
Elan Nash: S · Navy · #8.
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Elan Nash
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. A 2-star signing who has since put three seasons on the field at Navy. On tape: 9 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against East Carolina, Week 3, 2019.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
28 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 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
2019 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-7vs Holy Cross | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 42-10vs East Carolina | 9 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 23-35@ Memphis | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 34-25vs Air Force | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 45-17@ Tulsa | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 35-3vs South Florida | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-38vs Tulane | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 56-10@ UConn | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 20-52@ No. 16 Notre Dame | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 35-28vs No. 21 SMU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 20-17@ Kansas State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 28 | 18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 |
Week 3 · 2019
W 42-10
1 tackle for loss · 9 tackles · 6 solo tackles
Dominant 32-point win at home against East Carolina.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
7%2 pass breakupsTackle volume
28tackles this seasonTFL rate
4%1 TFL28 tackles · 1 for loss · 2 pass breakups.
3 seasons under Ken Niumatalolo, all run-heavy offenses — 21-18 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ken Niumatalolo
Pass share
11.8%
101 pass / 758 run
Plays / game
66.1
13 games
Team sack rate
13.0%
123 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2019
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Navy, 77 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He has a stat line in 28 games over 3 seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Ken Niumatalolo.
