Player Dossier

2015-2018

Notre Dame

Nicco Fertitta

S • 5'9" • 171 lbs • Las Vegas, NV, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Nicco Fertitta shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

13

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

5

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

27

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Notre Dame

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Notre Dame
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Stanford
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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9457

Langston Hughes · Fairburn, GA

Committed To
Georgia
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Nicco Fertitta, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Notre Dame. Nicco Fertitta shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
38
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Nicco Fertitta quick answers

Latest team and position
Notre Dame · S
Career Tackles
38
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 19 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · Notre Dame
Top game
Stanford
Recruit profile
4-star · Langston Hughes · Georgia
High school pipeline
Langston Hughes · 36 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 28 · Senior
2018 Tackles rank
11 tackles · S 281st (top 60%) · FBS Independents 116th (top 45%) · National 2,576th (top 45%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonNotre Dame8170.50-2035.9
2017 Regular SeasonNotre Dame510-0--040.2
2018 Regular SeasonNotre Dame611-0--039

Related Context

Nicco Fertitta played S for Notre Dame. Across 4 tracked seasons, Nicco Fertitta recorded 38 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Notre Dame.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

Notre Dame paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 7.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2018 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Virginia Tech

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Regular Season · Notre Dame

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

7.7

Usage

1.1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Virginia Tech

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ball State: 0. Vanderbilt: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. Florida State: 0. USC: 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. Ball State: 1 by 4.2. Vanderbilt: 1 by 4.2. Wake Forest: 3 by 12.5. Virginia Tech: 4 by 16.7. Florida State: 1 by 4.2. USC: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

First Half0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Virginia Tech

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Virginia Tech

Result
Sun 11/25@ USCW 24-1711000
Sun 11/11vs Florida StateW 42-1310000
Sun 10/7@ Virginia TechW 45-2343000
Sat 9/22@ Wake ForestW 56-2731000
Sat 9/15vs VanderbiltW 22-1711000
Sat 9/8vs Ball StateW 24-1611000

Career Arc

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    Notre Dame

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2015201620172018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonNotre Dame0
2016 Regular SeasonNotre Dame2.5122.32.5
2017 Regular SeasonNotre Dame08.31.5-2.5
2018 Regular SeasonNotre Dame07.71.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Stanford

Week 7 · L 10-17

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

48.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.

#2

@ Navy

Week 10 · L 27-28

0.5

Havoc Plays

41.7 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 41.7 takeover score.

#3

@ NC State

Week 6 · L 3-10

1

Havoc Plays

40 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.

#4

@ Virginia Tech

Week 6 · W 45-23

0

Havoc Plays

12.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.2 takeover score.

#5

@ Syracuse

Week 5 · W 50-33

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Havoc Plays

11.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · Notre Dame

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.5 usage

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#2

2018 Regular Season · Notre Dame

39

0 primary · 7.7 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Notre Dame

35.9

2.5 primary · 12 efficiency · 2.3 usage

Milestones

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Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games