Draper Riley: DL · Southern Miss · #9.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Draper Riley
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. A two-star recruit with two seasons on the field at Southern Miss since. A game that shows it: 5 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against North Texas — Week 5, 2017.
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
32 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Southern Miss | 32 | 11 | 3.5 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | Southern Miss | 15 | 11 | 3.5 | 0.0 |
| Career | 47 | 22 | 7.0 | 0.5 |
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 | L 17-24vs Kentucky | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-0vs Southern | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 28-17@ UL Monroe | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 28-43vs North Texas | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 31-29@ UTSA | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-0vs UTEP | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-27@ Louisiana Tech | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 12-30vs UAB | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-24@ Tennessee | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 43-34@ Rice | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-27@ Marshall | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 13-42vs Florida State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 32 | 11 | 3.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
11%4 TFLSack rate
2%0 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries32 tackles · 3.5 for loss · 0.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Jay Hopson — 15-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jay Hopson
Pass share
47.4%
438 pass / 486 run
Plays / game
71.1
13 games
Team sack rate
3.3%
457 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Southern Miss, 0 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Todd Monken → Jay Hopson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
