6′1″ · Homestead, FL · Miami Southridge
Jamal Carter: DB · Miami · #6.
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Jamal Carter
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Jamal Carter has been at Miami through two head coaches in three seasons. On tape: 13 tackles against Duke, Week 13, 2016.
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
85 tackles. 3 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
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 70-3vs Florida A&M | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-10vs Florida Atlantic | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-10@ App State | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-21@ Georgia Tech | 9 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 19-20vs No. 23 Florida State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 13-20vs North Carolina | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 16-37@ Virginia Tech | 11 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 27-30@ Notre Dame | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 51-28vs Pittsburgh | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 34-14@ Virginia | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 27-13@ NC State | 10 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 40-21vs Duke | 13 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 13 tackles |
 Bowl | W 31-14vs No. 14 West Virginia | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 85 | 53 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
4%3 pass breakupsTackle volume
85tackles this seasonTFL rate
1%1 TFL85 tackles · 1 for loss · 3 pass breakups.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 8.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 8.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Richt
Pass share
50.4%
425 pass / 419 run
Plays / game
64.9
13 games
Team sack rate
5.5%
457 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
85 tackles in 13 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Miami, 85 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He barely played early on. Then he did not come off the field.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Al Golden → Mark Richt. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
