Senior safety for San Diego State. 2020: 1 interception, 3 pass breakups, 41 tackles.
6′0″ · 210 lb · San Diego, CA
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 2137 nationally · Signed with San Diego State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety for San Diego State. 2020: 1 interception, 3 pass breakups, 41 tackles.
Tariq Thompson
Tariq Thompson has been at San Diego State through two head coaches in four seasons. 2020 brought the first one: All-Mountain West. One game to point at: 9 tackles, 1.5 TFL against UNLV — Week 8, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at San Diego State, 217 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Rocky Long → Brady Hoke. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (82nd percentile). Concern: sacks (27th 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 6.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Road4g | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+8g | 5.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sean Lewis
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
First team in his league at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | San Diego State | 41 | 25 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2019 | San Diego State | 55 | 44 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
| 2018 | San Diego State | 57 | 37 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 8 | 2 | -- |
| 2017 | San Diego State | 64 | 47 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 5 | -- |
| Career | 217 | 153 | 12.0 | 1.0 | 23 | 12 | 1 |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 14 · 2020
W 29–17
1 SOLO · 2 PD · 2 TOT
With J. Byrd — 28 rush yds (9 car) · T. Kuljian — 37 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 47 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 8 | W 34-6vs UNLV | 9 | 7 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 38-7@ Utah State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-28vs San José State | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 34-10vs Hawai'i | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 21-26@ Nevada | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-20@ Colorado | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 29-17vs Colorado State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 15 | L 14-28@ BYU | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 41 | 25 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 3 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
41 tackles. 3 passes defended. 1 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.