Former safety at USC. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′0″ · 190 lb · Eldersburg, MD
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
The story
Former safety at USC. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
Bryson Shaw
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Bryson Shaw has played for two head coaches across six seasons and two programs. The receipt: 5 tackles against Washington — Week 10, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at USC, 175 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 6 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2024
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Clay Helton, Donte Williams, and Lincoln Riley. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lincoln Riley
Pass share
46.0%
97 pass / 114 run
Plays / game
70.3
3 games
Team sack rate
2.0%
102 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | USC | 21 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | USC | 52 | 36 | 2.5 | 0.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | USC | 40 | 31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Ohio State | 59 | 30 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2020 | Ohio State | 1 | -- | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Ohio State | 2 | -- | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 175 | 111 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 9 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 18 · 2024
W 35–31
vs Texas A&M
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 6 | L 17-24@ Minnesota | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 30-33vs Penn State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 28-29@ Maryland | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-20vs Rutgers | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 21-26@ Washington | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-20vs Nebraska | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 35-49vs Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 35-31vs Texas A&M | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 21 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
21 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Jared Douglas’s 2024 season.
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Player DNA