Beanie Bishop: CB · West Virginia · #11.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Beanie Bishop
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away. Played for four head coaches across six seasons and three programs. Another came in 2023: All-Big 12. A game that shows it: 9 tackles against TCU — Week 5, 2023.
Play style
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
67 tackles. 20 passes defended. 4 interceptions. 0.5 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 this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | West Virginia | 67 | 54 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 20 | 4 |
| 2022 | Minnesota | 28 | 20 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Western Kentucky | 42 | 33 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2020 | Western Kentucky | 14 | 13 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 4 | -- |
| 2019 | Western Kentucky | 16 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2018 | Western Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- |
| Career | 168 | 132 | 10.0 | 1.0 | 30 | 7 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 15-38@ No. 7 Penn State | 7 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 56-17vs Duquesne | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 17-6vs Pittsburgh | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 20-13vs Texas Tech | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-21@ TCU | 9 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 39-41@ Houston | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 34-48vs Oklahoma State | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-28@ UCF | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 37-7vs BYU | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 5 | |
| Wk 11 | L 20-59@ No. 17 Oklahoma | 8 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-21vs Cincinnati | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 30-10vs North Carolina | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 67 | 54 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 4 | 20 |
Week 9 · 2023
W 41-28
at UCF
2 interceptions · 4 tackles · 1 pass breakup
Edged out UCF on the road in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
30%20 pass breakupsInterceptions
4interceptionsTackle volume
67tackles this season67 tackles · 0.5 for loss · 20 pass breakups · 4 interceptions.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| Road5g | 5.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Neal Brown
Pass share
37.6%
332 pass / 552 run
Plays / game
68.0
13 games
Team sack rate
3.0%
329 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2023
First team in his league at the position.
The All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #3 of 339 FBS cornerbacks by CFB Zeitgeist Score.2023 profile
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Two-star recruit. Now #3 at the position.
How it ended
Six seasons, at Western Kentucky, Minnesota and West Virginia, 168 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2021) — the college career is complete.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2023)
Weekly recognition
1 weekly honor (2021)
Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
4 coachesPlayed for 4 head coaches at 3 schools: Mike Sanford Jr., Tyson Helton, P.J. Fleck and Neal Brown.
