Senior defensive tackle for Mississippi State. 2018: 1 sack, 1.5 tackles for loss, 12 tackles.
6′5″ · 310 lb · Bessemer, AL
Recruiting
SDE recruit
No. 556 nationally · Signed with Mississippi State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive tackle for Mississippi State. 2018: 1 sack, 1.5 tackles for loss, 12 tackles.
Cory Thomas
Cory Thomas has been at Mississippi State through two head coaches in four seasons. The receipt: 3 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Texas A&M — Week 9, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Mississippi State, 49 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dan Mullen → Joe Moorhead. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: solo tackles (3rd 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
2018 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 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+4g | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Lebby
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Mississippi State | 12 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Mississippi State | 12 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Mississippi State | 25 | 6 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Mississippi State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Career | 49 | 14 | 6.5 | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2018
W 23–9
vs Auburn
1 TOT
With N. Fitzgerald — 69 yds · 0 TD · 1 INT · 195 rush yds (28 car) · 2 TD · T. Day — 40 AVG · 48 LONG · 3 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 31-10@ Kansas State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-28@ Kentucky | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 6-13vs Florida | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 23-9vs Auburn | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 3-19@ LSU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-13vs Texas A&M | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 45-3vs Louisiana Tech | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 35-3@ Ole Miss | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 12 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
12 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1.5 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.