Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2019Duke
Tahj Rice
DT • 6'2" • 320 lbs • Louisville, KY, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Tahj Rice shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
23
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
13
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
38
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Duke
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Duke
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Wake Forest
Player Story
Tahj Rice built his college career from 2018 through 2019 as a defensive tackle from Louisville, KY wearing No. 53, spending time with Duke. The clearest part of Tahj Rice's career was his defensive production: 16...
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- Committed To
- Duke
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2018
Tahj Rice, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Duke. Tahj Rice shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 16
- TFL
- 2.5
- Sacks
- 1.5
Quick Answers
Tahj Rice quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Duke · DT
- Career Tackles
- 16
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2018 Regular Season · Duke
- Top game
- Wake Forest
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Waggener Traditional · Duke
- High school pipeline
- Waggener Traditional · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 53 · Sophomore
- 2019 Tackles rank
- 10 tackles · DT 138th (top 59%) · ACC 303rd (top 48%) · National 2,708th (top 46%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Duke | 5 | 6 | 1.5 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 38.5 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Duke | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0.5 | - | - | 0 | 26.6 |
Related Context
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Tahj Rice played DT for Duke. Across 2 tracked seasons, Tahj Rice recorded 16 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Duke.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season
Duke paired 2.5 primary output with 10 efficiency.
Supporting note
2019 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 9.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2019 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Virginia
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2019 Regular Season · Duke
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
9.5
Usage
3.1
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Virginia
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Pittsburgh: 0. Virginia: 1. North Carolina: 0. Syracuse: 0. Wake Forest: 0.5. Miami: 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. Pittsburgh: 2 by 8.3. Virginia: 1 by 14.2. North Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Syracuse: 1 by 4.2. Wake Forest: 2 by 13.3. Miami: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 5 · +0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
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6 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Virginia
Best efficiency game
14.2 vs Virginia
Player Story
Tahj Rice story
Tahj Rice built his college career from 2018 through 2019 as a defensive tackle from Louisville, KY wearing No. 53, spending time with Duke. The clearest part of Tahj Rice's career was his defensive production: 16 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks across 11 career games in the available record. That gives Tahj Rice's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Duke
2018-2019
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20182019
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Duke | 2.5 | 10 | 3.7 | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | Duke | 1.5 | 9.5 | 3.1 | -1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Wake Forest
Week 13 · L 7-59 · Conference game
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
74.7 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.
#2
@ Virginia
Week 8 · L 14-48 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
67.8 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.
#3
@ Wake Forest
Week 13 · L 27-39 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
29.7 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 29.7 takeover score.
#4
vs North Carolina Central
Week 4 · W 55-13
0.5
Havoc Plays
18.1 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 18.1 takeover score.
#5
vs Miami
Week 14 · W 27-17 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
9.7 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2018 Regular Season · Duke
2.5 primary output · 10 efficiency · 3.7 usage
38.5
#2
2019 Regular Season · Duke
26.6
1.5 primary · 9.5 efficiency · 3.1 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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