Senior defensive back for Southern Miss. 2018: 1 interception, 1 pass breakup, 46 tackles.
5′10″ · 195 lb · Mendenhall, MS
Recruiting
WR recruit
No. 2358 nationally · Signed with Southern Miss
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back for Southern Miss. 2018: 1 interception, 1 pass breakup, 46 tackles.
Picasso Nelson
Four seasons at Southern Miss, two different head coaches: Todd Monken and Jay Hopson. The receipt on tape: 8 tackles, 2 TFL against North Texas, Week 7, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Southern Miss, 94 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2014–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Todd Monken → Jay Hopson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: sacks (24th 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 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 7.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 5.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 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
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Southern Miss | 46 | 23 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| 2016 | Southern Miss | 48 | 26 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | -- |
| 2015 | Southern Miss | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2014 | Southern Miss | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Career | 94 | 49 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 5 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2018
W 55–7
3 TOT
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 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-21vs UL Monroe | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 40-22vs Rice | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-24@ Auburn | 8 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 7-30@ North Texas | 8 | 6 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-17vs UTSA | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-20@ Charlotte | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 26-24vs Marshall | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-26@ UAB | 7 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 46 | 23 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
46 tackles. 1 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 4 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.