Game log · Week-by-week
2026 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-7vs Lafayette | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 14-38vs Maryland | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Total | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
#18
Kylish Hicks
Senior defensive back on UConn's 2026 roster.
6′1″ · 200 lb · Baltimore, MD · Mergenthaler Vocational Tech
In transfer portal — destination TBD (from UConn)
Recruiting
3★
WR recruit
No. 1525 nationally · Signed with UConn
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back on UConn's 2026 roster.
- Signed as a 3-star recruit to UConn in 2022.
Kylish Hicks
Kylish Hicks has been at UConn through three head coaches in three seasons. The receipt: 2 tackles against Maryland — Week 2, 2026.
3 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- season totals
- head-coach lineage
- game log
His career
2022
- Signed with UConn3-star out of Mergenthaler Vocational
2026
- Entered the portal
- Entered the portal
- Entered the portal
Career arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
UConn
NFL
NFL Draft
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Coaching lineage · 2023–2026
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Jim Mora, Gordon Sammis, and Jason Candle. Multi-era developmental context.
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
2025UConn
DestinationTBD
2026 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
2023UConn3-9HC: Jim Mora · Balanced
2025UConn9-4HC: Gordon Sammis · Balanced
2026UConn1-1HC: Jason Candle · Run-leaning
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (0th percentile).
Box-score production (6)
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 & context
Splits
Per-game splits
Through 2 games: 1.5 TKL/g, 0.0 TFL/g, 0.0 SACK/g, 0.0 PD/g — splits start at 3 games.
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jason Candle
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Awards
Player standing · 2026
Backup
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career stats
Signature game
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2026
W 56–7
vs Lafayette
1 TOT
Dominant 49-point win at home against Lafayette.
With K. Osborne — 265 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · 90 rush yds (8 car) · 2 TD · T. Warner — 43 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 44 LONG
Game log
Background
2025 (R-Junior Season): Appeared in all 13 games ... A special teams standout … Finished with nine tackles (seven solo, two assists)… Logged two tackles vs. Syracuse on Sept. 6… Posted one tackle at Delaware on Sept. 13… Recorded two tackles vs. FIU on Oct. 4… Had one tackle vs. UAB on Nov. 1… Re...
The secondary · UConn
- #10Jayden Davis34 tackles · 2025
- #24Zion Paret13 tackles · 2025
- #18Kylish Hicks9 tackles · 2025
- #17Jalil Martin6 tackles · 2025
- #4Braedyn Moore5 tackles · 2025
16 more on the roster · UConn team page
Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology