Former defensive back at UCF. 2020: 3 interceptions, 5 pass breakups, 72 tackles.
6′0″ · 194 lb · Fort Walton Beach, FL
Recruiting
WR recruit
No. 2498 nationally · Signed with UCF
Statement game16 tackles · 1.5 TFLvs Cincinnati (FBS) · L 33-36
Top 0.1% tackles game since 2021.
That was a hella stick by Grant thor/CFB game thread · ▲ 3His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former defensive back at UCF. 2020: 3 interceptions, 5 pass breakups, 72 tackles.
Richie Grant
Four seasons at UCF, two different head coaches: Scott Frost and Josh Heupel. In 2020 the league put his name on paper for the first time: All-AAC. The receipt: 16 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Cincinnati — Week 12, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at UCF, 284 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — drafted at #40 overall by Atlanta.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AAC · 1ST TEAM
All-AAC 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Scott Frost → Josh Heupel. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
AtlantaEntering 6th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: solo tackles (98th percentile). Strength: tackles (96th 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
2020 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 10.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Road5g | 6.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 6.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 9.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Frost
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
First team on a majority of the recognized selector lists.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2020
W 51–34
vs Tulane
11 TOT · 6 SOLO · 1 TFL
Edged out Tulane at home in a shootout.
With D. Gabriel — 422 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · 19 rush yds (12 car) · G. McCrae — 162 rush yds (25 car) · 1 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 49-21@ Georgia Tech | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 51-28@ East Carolina | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 26-34vs Tulsa | 9 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 49-50@ Memphis | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 51-34vs Tulane | 11 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 44-21@ Houston | 7 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-13vs Temple | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 33-36vs Cincinnati | 16 | 10 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 2 | Season-high 16 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 58-46@ South Florida | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Total | 72 | 49 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 3 | 5 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
72 tackles. 5 passes defended. 3 interceptions. 3.5 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