Sergio Phillips: DL · San Diego State · #65.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Sergio Phillips
Wins the gap play after play. Second year in the same defensive front at San Diego State. On tape: 7 tackles against Northern Illinois, Week 5, 2017.
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
40 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | San Diego State | 40 | 18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- |
| 2016 | San Diego State | 42 | 20 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 1 |
| Career | 82 | 38 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 1 |
There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-17vs UC Davis | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 30-20@ Arizona State | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 20-17vs No. 19 Stanford | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 28-24@ Air Force | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 34-28vs Northern Illinois | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 41-10@ UNLV | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-31vs Boise State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 3-27vs Fresno State | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-7@ Hawai'i | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 52-7@ San José State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-23vs Nevada | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 35-10vs New Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 35-42vs Army | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
2%1 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries40 tackles · 1 for loss.
2 seasons under Rocky Long, all run-heavy offenses — 21-6 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rocky Long
Pass share
30.9%
250 pass / 558 run
Plays / game
62.2
13 games
Team sack rate
9.8%
295 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
40 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at San Diego State, 3 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Rocky Long.
