Usage / Role
9%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2014-2016Notre Dame
Daniel Cage
DL • 6'1" • Cincinnati, OH, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Daniel Cage shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
20
Developing production for a defensive lineman
lowelite
Reliability
16
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
32
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Notre Dame
141516
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Notre Dame
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Nevada
4★
- Committed To
- Notre Dame
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2014
Daniel Cage, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Notre Dame. Daniel Cage shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 10
- TFL
- 0.5
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Daniel Cage quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Notre Dame · DL
- Career Tackles
- 10
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 6 games
- Best season
- 2016 Regular Season · Notre Dame
- Top game
- Nevada
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Winton Woods · Notre Dame
- High school pipeline
- Winton Woods · 31 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 75 · Class 2016
- 2016 Tackles rank
- 10 tackles · DL 433rd (top 62%) · FBS Independents 82nd (top 43%) · National 2,677th (top 48%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2015 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2016 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 6 | 10 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 33.2 |
Related Context
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Daniel Cage played DL for Notre Dame. Across 3 tracked seasons, Daniel Cage recorded 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Notre Dame.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season
Notre Dame paired 1.5 primary output with 9.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2016 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 9.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2016 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Nevada
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2016 Regular Season · Notre Dame
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
9.4
Usage
1.5
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Nevada
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Texas: 0. Nevada: 1. Michigan State: 0. Duke: 0. Syracuse: 0.5. NC State: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Texas: 1 by 4.2. Nevada: 1 by 14.2. Michigan State: 2 by 8.3. Duke: 2 by 8.3. Syracuse: 2 by 13.3. NC State: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.8 · Games = 2 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -0.8 vs Wins
Game Log
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6 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Nevada
Best efficiency game
14.2 vs Nevada
Career Arc
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Notre Dame
2014-2016
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
201420152016
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2015 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 1.5 | 9.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Nevada
Week 2 · W 39-10
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
40.8 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.8 takeover score.
#2
@ Syracuse
Week 5 · W 50-33
0.5
Havoc Plays
30.3 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.3 takeover score.
#3
vs Michigan State
Week 3 · L 28-36
0
Havoc Plays
6.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.
#4
@ NC State
Week 6 · L 3-10
0
Havoc Plays
6.4 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.
#5
vs Duke
Week 4 · L 35-38
0
Havoc Plays
6.4 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2016 Regular Season · Notre Dame
1.5 primary output · 9.4 efficiency · 1.5 usage
33.2
#2
2014 Regular Season · Notre Dame
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
#3
2015 Regular Season · Notre Dame
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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