Eriq Kitchen: DL · Southern Miss · #2.
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Eriq Kitchen
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Played for three head coaches in three seasons at Southern Miss. On tape: 5 tackles and 3 tackles for loss against UAB, Week 7, 2021.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
28 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 7.5 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Southern Miss | 28 | 12 | 7.5 | 3.5 | -- |
| 2020 | Southern Miss | 32 | 10 | 4.0 | 1.0 | -- |
| 2019 | Southern Miss | 18 | 7 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 1 |
| Career | 78 | 29 | 16.0 | 6.5 | 1 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-31@ South Alabama | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 37-0vs Grambling | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 9-21vs Troy | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 4 | L 14-63@ No. 1 Alabama | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 19-24@ Rice | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 13-26vs UTEP | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 0-34vs UAB | 5 | 2 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 9 | L 10-35@ Middle Tennessee | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-38vs North Texas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-27@ No. 15 UTSA | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 37-17vs Florida International | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 28 | 12 | 7.5 | 3.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
27%8 TFLSack rate
12%4 sacksHurry rate
7%2 hurries28 tackles · 7.5 for loss · 3.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Will Hall
Pass share
38.8%
286 pass / 451 run
Plays / game
61.4
12 games
Team sack rate
11.3%
328 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2021
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Two-star recruit. Now #94 at the position.
How it ended
Three seasons at Southern Miss, 6 sacks — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 32 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2017–2021
4 coachesPlayed under 4 different head coaches: Jay Hopson, Tim Billings, Scotty Walden, and Will Hall. Multi-era developmental context.
