Senior defensive back on Florida State's 2025 roster.
6′2″ · 205 lb · Lake City, FL
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
LB recruit
No. 992 nationally · Signed with Florida State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back on Florida State's 2025 roster.
Shyheim Brown
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. He has spent five seasons in the Florida State secondary. All-ACC in 2024 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. The receipt: 9 tackles against Virginia — Week 5, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-ACC
All-ACC mention (2023)
Coaching lineage · 2021–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mike Norvell.
Season context · Team result + system
5 seasons under Mike Norvell — 35-28 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: passes defended (18th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 4.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Norvell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #356 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot to repeat All-ACC
Based on 2025: #51 of 75 ACC DBs
15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Florida State | 32 | 12 | 1.5 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Florida State | 62 | 35 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Florida State | 53 | 25 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Florida State | 31 | 15 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Florida State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 181 | 88 | 7.0 | 4.5 | 8 | 1 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 5 | L 38-46@ Virginia | 9 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 6 | L 22-28vs Miami | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 31-34vs Pittsburgh | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-20@ Stanford | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 42-7vs Wake Forest | 5 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-24@ Clemson | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 11-21@ NC State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 21-40@ Florida | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 32 | 12 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
32 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1.5 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.
2026 Outlook
Florida State
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive back · Florida State
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Florida State · Last season: 5-7 (AP #25) · Talent rank #21 · 2026 recruiting class #16
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jordan Lovett’s 2023 season.
Matches Jordan on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Jalen Geiger's graduate season at Tulane (2024).
Matches Jalen on
Player DNA