Junior linebacker for Southern Miss. 2018: 23 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
6′3″ · 225 lb · Athens, AL
Recruiting
OLB recruit
No. 1626 nationally · Signed with Southern Miss
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 linebacker for Southern Miss. 2018: 23 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
Paxton Schrimsher
This is his third year in the same linebacker corps at Southern Miss. One game to point at: 5 tackles, 0.5 TFL against UL Monroe — Week 2, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Southern Miss, 79 tackles — 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 · 2016–2018
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Jay Hopson.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Jay Hopson — 21-16 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: passes defended (19th 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
2018 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Blake Anderson
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Southern Miss | 23 | 14 | 3.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Southern Miss | 49 | 25 | 11.0 | 5.5 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Southern Miss | 7 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 79 | 44 | 15.5 | 6.5 | 3 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2018
W 55–7
2 TOT · 1 SOLO
Dominant 48-point win at home against Jackson State.
With Q. Watkins — 8 rec · 138 yds · 3 TD · J. Abraham — 242 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · -9 rush yds (2 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 55-7vs Jackson State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-21vs UL Monroe | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 40-22vs Rice | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-24@ Auburn | 4 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 7-30@ North Texas | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-17vs UTSA | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-20@ Charlotte | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 26-24vs Marshall | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-26@ UAB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 23 | 14 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
23 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 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.