Kyle Phillips: DL · Tennessee · #5.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Kyle Phillips
Wins the gap play after play. Played for two head coaches at Tennessee: Butch Jones and Jeremy Pruitt. On tape: 9 tackles and 0.5 sacks against Auburn, Week 7, 2018.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
55 tackles. 4 passes defended. 1 interception. 7 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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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
2018 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-40vs No. 17 West Virginia | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 59-3vs East Tennessee State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-0vs UTEP | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-47vs Florida | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 12-38@ No. 2 Georgia | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 30-24@ No. 21 Auburn | 9 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 21-58vs No. 1 Alabama | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-27@ South Carolina | 6 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 14-3vs Charlotte | 4 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-7vs No. 12 Kentucky | 6 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 17-50vs Missouri | 7 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 13-38@ Vanderbilt | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 55 | 27 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 1 | 4 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
13%7 TFLSack rate
7%4 sacksHurry rate
9%5 hurries55 tackles · 7 for loss · 4 sacks · 1 interception.
Splits · Per-game
2018 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 6.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeremy Pruitt
Pass share
42.4%
297 pass / 403 run
Plays / game
58.3
12 games
Team sack rate
6.6%
331 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2018
55 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Three seasons at Tennessee, 6 sacks — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 29 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Butch Jones → Jeremy Pruitt. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
