Senior safety for Rice. 2022: 1 interception, 1 pass breakup, 41 tackles.
6′0″ · 189 lb · Houston, TX
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 1706 nationally · Signed with Rice
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety for Rice. 2022: 1 interception, 1 pass breakup, 41 tackles.
George Nyakwol
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. George Nyakwol has played for two head coaches in five seasons at Rice. One game to point at: 11 tackles against North Texas — Week 13, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Rice, 197 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2017–2022
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: David Bailiff → Mike Bloomgren. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: solo tackles (82nd percentile). Concern: qb hurries (24th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 5.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 5.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Abell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #237 at the position.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2022
W 52–10
vs McNeese
2 SOLO · 2 TOT
Dominant 42-point win at home against McNeese.
With T. McMahon — 274 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.4 · 26 rush yds (3 car) · 1 TD · B. Rozner — 3 rec · 101 yds · 2 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-66@ USC | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 52-10vs McNeese | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 33-21vs Louisiana | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 27-34@ Houston | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-24vs UAB | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-17@ Florida Atlantic | 5 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-45@ Western Kentucky | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 7-41vs UTSA | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-21@ North Texas | 11 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Total | 41 | 31 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 |
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
41 tackles. 1 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 2 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.
Player DNA
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Koby Perry’s 2022 season.
Matches Koby on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Darian Chestnut's senior season at Syracuse (2022).
Matches Darian on
Player DNA