Sophomore defensive back on Florida International's 2025 roster.
5′11″ · 180 lb · Clewiston, FL
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 2037 nationally · Signed with Florida International
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
2 defensive back on Florida International's 2025 roster.
Preston Thompson
Preston Thompson has played for two head coaches in two seasons at Florida International. The receipt: 3 tackles against Western Kentucky — Week 8, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2024–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mike MacIntyre → Willie Simmons. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (0th 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
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Willie Simmons
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Florida International | 9 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Florida International | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 11 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025
W 42–9
1 SOLO · 1 TOT
Dominant 33-point win at home against Bethune-Cookman.
With K. Jenkins — 187 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 48.8 · 3 rush yds (5 car) · 2 TD · T. Wilhoit — 51 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 51 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-9vs Bethune-Cookman | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-28vs Florida Atlantic | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 16-38vs Delaware | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 25-6@ Western Kentucky | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 9 | L 26-45vs Kennesaw State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 56-30@ Middle Tennessee | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 56-16@ Sam Houston | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 20-57@ UTSA | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 9 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
9 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 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.