#55

Colin Coates

Junior defensive lineman on Mississippi State's 2026 roster.

DL · Mississippi State · Jr. · #55

6′2″ · 320 lb · Baltimore, MD · Saint Frances HS (Charlotte)

Returning to Mississippi State for 2026

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How he projects

Grades highest in tackling and strength.

The full scouting read

Recruiting

DL recruit

Signed with Charlotte

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

3 defensive lineman on Mississippi State's roster.

Signed with Charlotte in 2023.
Transferred from Charlotte to Mississippi State in 2025.

His career, year by year

Colin Coates

DL · Mississippi State · Jr · #55

Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Charlotte to Mississippi State — the move that set up everything since. The receipt on tape: 2 tackles against Tulane, Week 10, 2024.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2 seasons under Biff Poggi — 8-16 over that span.

2023Charlotte3-9HC: Biff Poggi · Run-leaning

2024Charlotte5-7HC: Biff Poggi · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: tackles (14th percentile).

Box-score production (7)

QB hurries#941 / 2892 · 57th pct

Forced fumbles#55 / 700 · 46th pct

Sacks#1455 / 2892 · 25th pct

0.0

Passes defended#1817 / 2892 · 19th pct

Tackles for loss#2296 / 2892 · 18th pct

0.5

Solo tackles#2420 / 2892 · 14th pct

Tackles#2435 / 2892 · 14th pct

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Road4g	1.2	0.1	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-74g	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	1.3	0.1	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jeff Lebby

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Charlotte	14	7	0.5	--	--	--
2023	Charlotte	14	5	2.0	--	--	--
Career		28	12	2.5	--	--	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	Note
Wk 1	L 7-30vs James Madison	2	2	0.0	—	Season-high 2 tackles
Wk 3	W 27-26vs Gardner-Webb	2	0	0.0	—
Wk 5	W 21-20@ Rice	1	1	0.0	—
Wk 6	W 55-24vs East Carolina	1	1	0.0	—
Wk 8	L 17-51@ Navy	2	1	0.0	—
Wk 9	L 28-33@ Memphis	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 10	L 3-34vs Tulane	2	1	0.0	—
Wk 12	L 24-59vs South Florida	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 13	W 39-27@ Florida Atlantic	1	0	0.5	—
Wk 14	W 29-27vs UAB	1	1	0.0	—
Total		14	7	0.5	—

How he plays

Play style

The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

10 games

14Tackles

7Solo

0.5TFL

0Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

14 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 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.

2026 Outlook

Mississippi State

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive line · Mississippi State

Returning around him

2 Mississippi State players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: -12 net (28 in / 40 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Mississippi State · Last season: 5-8 · Talent rank #20 · 2026 recruiting class #23

DNA match

Player DNA

Nose Anchor

The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.

IDL

His 2024 production profile sits closest to Luke To'omalatai’s 2024 season.

Luke To'omalatai

90%match

BYU · 2024

Quincy Wright

Sam Houston · 2024

84%

Denzel Daxon

Illinois · 2023

82%

Jacobian Guillory

LSU · 2023

80%

Lavon Johnson

Maryland · 2024

80%

Matches Luke on

Class year

Height

TFL rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Quincy Wright's sophomore season at Sam Houston (2024).

Quincy Wright

84%match

Sam Houston · 2024

Kiawan Murphy

Akron · 2025

84%

Jaedon Roberts

California · 2022

82%

Xavier McIver

East Carolina · 2021

82%

Jordan Phillips

Maryland · 2023

NFL Rd 5

81%

Matches Quincy on

Class year

Height

Hurry rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Colin Coates

Luke To'omalatai

BYU · 2024

90%

Elinneus Davis

Washington · 2025

88%

Quincy Wright

Sam Houston · 2024

84%

Xavier Miles

Charlotte · 2025

84%

Jahari Grant

South Florida · 2024

83%

Background

Career Honors 2025 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll Career Notes Played in 17 career games with one start … Transferred to Mississippi State ahead of the 2025 season. 2025 (Junior Season) Did not see any game action … Earned a redshirt … Missed the entire season due to injury. 2024 (Sophomore Season...

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#55Colin CoatesDL · Jr.no box-score line yet

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Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology