Deatrick Nichols: CB · South Florida · #3.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Deatrick Nichols
Gets targeted often and tackles in space. Played for two head coaches at South Florida: Willie Taggart and Charlie Strong. One game to point at: 10 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Houston — Week 9, 2017.
Play style
Targeted often and asked to tackle in space on the perimeter.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
56 tackles. 12 passes defended. 3 interceptions. 4 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | South Florida | 56 | 44 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 12 | 3 |
| 2016 | South Florida | 49 | 37 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 7 | 4 |
| 2015 | South Florida | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 4 |
| Career | 105 | 81 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 19 | 11 |
There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-22@ San José State | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 1 | W 31-17vs Stony Brook | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 47-23vs Illinois | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 4 | W 43-7vs Temple | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Wk 5 | W 61-31@ East Carolina | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 33-3vs Cincinnati | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-28@ Tulane | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-28vs Houston | 10 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 10 | W 37-20@ UConn | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 27-20vs Tulsa | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 13 | L 42-49@ No. 13 UCF | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 38-34vs Texas Tech | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 56 | 44 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 12 |
Week 4 · 2017
W 43-7
vs Temple
2 interceptions · 3 tackles · 2 pass breakups
Dominant 36-point win at home against Temple.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
21%12 pass breakupsInterceptions
3interceptionsTackle volume
56tackles this season56 tackles · 4 for loss · 12 pass breakups · 3 interceptions.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Road5g | 4.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Charlie Strong
Pass share
36.9%
366 pass / 626 run
Plays / game
82.7
12 games
Team sack rate
4.6%
389 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
56 tackles in 12 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at South Florida, 105 tackles — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Willie Taggart → Charlie Strong. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
