Tolando Cleveland: DB · Mississippi State · #7.
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Tolando Cleveland
Erases the deep middle of the field. Second year in the same secondary at Mississippi State. One game to point at: 4 tackles against Georgia — Week 4, 2017.
Play style
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
18 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.
The Clarion-Ledger Oct 17Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mississippi State | 18 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- |
| 2014 | Mississippi State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Career | 18 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 2 |
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 · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-0vs Charleston Southern | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 37-7vs No. 12 LSU | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 3-31@ No. 11 Georgia | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 35-10vs BYU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-7vs Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 35-14@ Texas A&M | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 34-23vs Massachusetts | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-31vs No. 1 Alabama | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 28-31vs Ole Miss | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
 Bowl | W 31-27vs Louisville | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 18 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
17%3 pass breakupsTackle volume
18tackles this seasonTFL rate
0%0 TFL18 tackles · 3 pass breakups.
2 seasons under Dan Mullen — 19-7 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road2g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Mullen
Pass share
36.2%
353 pass / 623 run
Plays / game
75.1
13 games
Team sack rate
3.4%
380 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Mississippi State, 18 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Dan Mullen.
