6′0″ · 214 lb · Jonesboro, LA
Elliot Blankenship: DB · Louisiana Tech · #49.
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Elliot Blankenship
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Second year in the Louisiana Tech secondary. A game that shows it: 6 tackles against Southern Miss — Week 8, 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
39 tackles. 1 pass 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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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Louisiana Tech | 39 | 26 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
| 2016 | Louisiana Tech | 20 | 9 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1 |
| Career | 59 | 35 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 2 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-24vs Northwestern State | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 21-57vs Mississippi State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 23-22@ Western Kentucky | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 16-17@ South Carolina | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-16vs South Alabama | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 22-23@ UAB | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-34vs Southern Miss | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-28@ Rice | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-48vs Florida Atlantic | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-21@ UTEP | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 20-6vs UTSA | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 51-10@ SMU | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 39 | 26 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Week 3 · 2017
W 23-22
1 tackle for loss · 4 tackles · 1 solo tackle
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 1 on the road.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
3%1 pass breakupsTackle volume
39tackles this seasonTFL rate
3%1 TFL39 tackles · 1 for loss · 1 pass breakup.
2 seasons under Skip Holtz — 16-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Skip Holtz
Pass share
46.0%
419 pass / 492 run
Plays / game
70.1
13 games
Team sack rate
5.8%
466 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 Louisiana Tech, 59 tackles — his college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Skip Holtz.
