Trenton Thompson: DT · Georgia · #78.
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Trenton Thompson
Wins the gap play after play. Two seasons in the Georgia defensive front to date. The first career honor came in 2021: All-Mountain West. On tape: 6 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against App State, Week 1, 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
32 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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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 · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-10vs App State | 6 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 20-19@ No. 24 Notre Dame | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 42-14vs Samford | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 31-3vs No. 17 Mississippi State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 41-0@ Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-7vs Florida | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-10vs South Carolina | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-13vs Kentucky | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 38-7@ Georgia Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-7vs No. 4 Auburn | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 54-48vs No. 2 Oklahoma | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 23-26vs No. 4 Alabama | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 32 | 17 | 3.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Week 1 · 2017
W 31-10
vs App State
2 tackles for loss · 6 tackles · 3 solo tackles
Dominant 21-point win at home against App State.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
11%4 TFLSack rate
0%0 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries32 tackles · 3.5 for loss.
2 seasons under Kirby Smart — 21-7 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirby Smart
Pass share
31.8%
303 pass / 650 run
Plays / game
63.5
15 games
Team sack rate
6.6%
331 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Georgia, 88 tackles — the college career is complete.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Coaching lineage · 2015–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mark Richt → Kirby Smart. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
