Junior linebacker for Utah. 2018: 30 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
5′10″ · 219 lb · Miami, FL
Recruiting
OLB recruit
No. 1700 nationally · Signed with Utah
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 linebacker for Utah. 2018: 30 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
Donavan Thompson
Third year in the Utah linebacker corps, same address the whole way. The receipt on tape: 8 tackles against Washington, Week 3, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Utah, 68 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kyle Whittingham.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Kyle Whittingham — 25-15 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: passes defended (19th 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 3.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Morgan Scalley
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2018
W 40–21
at Stanford
7 TOT · 4 SOLO · 1 TFL
With T. Huntley — 199 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · 23 rush yds (10 car) · Z. Moss — 160 rush yds (20 car) · 2 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-10vs Weber State | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 17-6@ Northern Illinois | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-21vs Washington | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 40-21@ Stanford | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 42-10vs Arizona | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 41-28vs USC | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-10@ UCLA | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 30-7@ Colorado | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 20-31vs Northwestern | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 30 | 14 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
30 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 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.