Whitney Mercilus | Football Outsiders

Position: OLB

Size: 6-4, 261 pounds

Draft: Houston Texans 2012 (Round: 1 / Pick: 26)

College: Illinois

Birthdate: 07/21/1990

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Standard Stats

Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	Total Tkl	Tkl	Ast	Sacks	Int	IntTD	PD	FF	FR	FumTD	Pen	PenYd
2017	HOU	OLB	5	5	10	9	1	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
2016	HOU	OLB	15	15	53	36	17	7.5	0	0	1	1	0	0	4	25
2015	HOU	OLB	16	10	50	32	18	12.0	0	0	2	1	2	0	3	25
2014	HOU	OLB
2013	HOU	OLB
2012	HOU	OLB

Advanced Stats

Year	Team	Pos	Plays	Stops	Dfts	Yd/Play	Rank	Stop Rate	Rank	Adj Pct Tm Total	Rank	Run/Pass Ratio
2017	HOU	OLB	10	5	3	3.0	--	50%	--	4%	--	2.3
2016	HOU	OLB	54	34	21	1.7	6	63%	17	8%	73	2.9
2015	HOU	OLB	52	37	23	1.6	3	71%	7	7%	82	1.3
2014	HOU	OLB
2013	HOU	OLB
2012	HOU	OLB

Advanced Stats vs Pass

Year	Team	Pos	Plays	Stops	Dfts	Yd/Play	Rank	Stop Rate	Rank	Pct Tm	Tkl	Stops	Stop Rate
2017	HOU	OLB	3	1	1	3.0	--	33%	--	1%	2.0	0.0	0%
2016	HOU	OLB	14	10	9	-1.6	5	71%	10	4%	5.0	1.0	20%
2015	HOU	OLB	23	15	13	1.7	7	65%	11	5%	8.0	0.0	0%
2014	HOU	OLB
2013	HOU	OLB
2012	HOU	OLB

Advanced Stats vs Run

Year	Team	Pos	Plays	Stops	Dfts	Yd/Play	Rank	Stop Rate	Rank	Pct Tm
2017	HOU	OLB	7	4	2	3.0	--	57%	--	57%
2016	HOU	OLB	40	24	12	2.9	19	60%	63	60%
2015	HOU	OLB	29	22	10	1.5	2	76%	6	76%
2014	HOU	OLB
2013	HOU	OLB
2012	HOU	OLB

Charting Stats

Year	Team	Pos	Hits	Hur	Tgts	Tgt%	Rank	Avg Dist	YAC	Rank	Suc%	Rank	PaYd	Rank	Suc%	PaYd
2017	HOU	OLB	0	4	3	--	--	3.3	4.0	--	39%	--	5.0	--	33%	5.7
2016	HOU	OLB	14	31	6	--	--	5.7	8.6	--	24%	--	10.8	--	18%	11.6
2015	HOU	OLB	4	20	5	--	--	14.2	8.0	--	20%	--	17.4	--	19%	17.8
2014	HOU	OLB
2013	HOU	OLB
2012	HOU	OLB

Penalties

Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	Pen	PenYd
2017	HOU	OLB	5	5	0	0
2016	HOU	OLB	15	15	4	25
2015	HOU	OLB	16	10	3	25
2014	HOU	OLB
2013	HOU	OLB
2012	HOU	OLB

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