Senior defensive lineman for Houston. 2022: 2 sacks, 5 tackles for loss, 12 tackles.
6′0″ · 260 lb · Woodstock, GA
Recruiting
DT recruit
No. 25 nationally · Joined Iowa State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive lineman for Houston. 2022: 2 sacks, 5 tackles for loss, 12 tackles.
Latrell Bankston
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Two head coaches in three seasons, at two different programs. The receipt: 2 tackles, 1 sacks against South Florida — Week 9, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Houston, 9 sacks — 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 · 2020–2022
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Dana Holgorsen.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (9th 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
2022 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Willie Fritz
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Houston | 12 | 9 | 5.0 | 2.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Houston | 17 | 8 | 4.0 | 3.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Iowa State | 16 | 8 | 4.5 | 3.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 45 | 25 | 13.5 | 9.0 | -- | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 30-33@ Texas Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 30-48vs Kansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-27vs Rice | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 24-27vs Tulane | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 33-32@ Memphis | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-27vs South Florida | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 43-36vs Temple | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-3@ East Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 30-37vs Tulsa | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 12 | 9 | 5.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
12 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 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.
Player DNA
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Derek Parish’s 2022 season.
Matches Derek on
Differs from Derek on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Bryan Whitehead II's junior season at Arkansas State (2025).
Matches Bryan on
Player DNA