Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 1 game
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 0-62@ Louisville | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 0 tackles |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
#21
Sammy Anderson
Senior cornerback on Southern Miss's 2026 roster.
6′1″ · 190 lb · Dayton, OH
Transferred Southern Miss for 2026
Recruiting
3★
CB recruit
No. 543 nationally · Signed with Cincinnati
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 cornerback on Southern Miss's roster.
- Signed as a 3-star recruit to Cincinnati in 2020.
Sammy Anderson
Doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play. Three seasons at Southern Miss, two different head coaches: Luke Fickell and Scott Satterfield.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- positional archetype classification
- head-coach lineage
His career
2020
- Signed with Cincinnati3-star out of Trotwood-Madison
Career arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Cincinnati
NFL
NFL Draft
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Coaching lineage · 2021–2023
1 coach2021–2023
Southern Miss
Played his entire career under Will Hall.
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Southern Miss
2025—
2026Southern Miss
2024 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
2021Cincinnati13-1HC: Luke Fickell · Run-leaning
2022Cincinnati9-4HC: Luke Fickell · Balanced
2023Cincinnati3-9HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning
Splits & context
Splits
Per-game splits
Through 1 game: 0.0 TKL/g, 0.0 TFL/g, 0.0 SACK/g, 1.0 PD/g — splits start at 3 games.
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.
Awards
Player standing · 2022
Backup
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career stats
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Cincinnati | 14 | 11 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 16 | 13 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
Game log
How he plays
Play style
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
CFB Index positional classification
DNA match
Player DNA
Cover Corner
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
CB
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Nic Jones’s 2021 season.
91%match
NFL Rd 7
Matches Nic on
Height
Weight
PD rate
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Nic Jones's sophomore season at Ball State (2021).
96%match
All-MACNFL Rd 7
Matches Nic on
Class year
Height
Weight
Player DNA
Players who play like Sammy Anderson
The secondary · Southern Miss
- #1Josh Moten61 tackles · 2025
- #24Josh Battle34 tackles · 2025
- #1Champ Lewis16 tackles · 2025
- #3Jyaire Brown7 tackles · 2025
- #21Sammy Andersonno box-score line yet
24 more on the roster · Southern Miss team page
Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology