Senior defensive back for Minnesota. 2021: 1 interception, 1 pass breakup, 14 tackles.
5′11″ · 195 lb · Minneapolis, MN
Recruiting
ATH recruit
No. 800 nationally · Signed with Minnesota
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back for Minnesota. 2021: 1 interception, 1 pass breakup, 14 tackles.
Phillip Howard
Fifth year in the Minnesota secondary, same address the whole way. The receipt: 2 tackles against Northwestern — Week 9, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Minnesota, 32 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2017–2021
1 coachPlayed his entire career under P.J. Fleck.
Season context · Team result + system
5 seasons under P.J. Fleck — 35-23 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th 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
2021 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
P.J. Fleck
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 13 · 2021
W 23–13
vs Wisconsin
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-45vs Ohio State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-26vs Miami (OH) | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 30-0@ Colorado | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 20-13@ Purdue | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-16vs Maryland | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-14@ Northwestern | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 6-14vs Illinois | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 35-14@ Indiana | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 23-13vs Wisconsin | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 12 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
12 tackles. 1 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 0 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.