Senior safety on Northern Illinois's 2025 roster.
5′10″ · 191 lb · Blackshear, GA
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
CB recruit
No. 2480 nationally · Signed with Northern Illinois
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety on Northern Illinois's 2025 roster.
Ty Myles
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Fourth year in the Northern Illinois secondary, same address the whole way. The receipt on tape: 6 tackles against Mississippi State, Week 4, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Thomas Hammock.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Thomas Hammock — 27-25 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: sacks (24th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 4.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rob Harley
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 #417 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Mountain West
Based on 2025: #17 of 23 Mid-American Ss — his program moves to the Mountain West for 2026
22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. 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. The base rate was measured on players who stayed in the same conference; this estimate is not adjusted for the move to the Mountain West.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Northern Illinois | 30 | 14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Northern Illinois | 9 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Northern Illinois | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 48 | 29 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025
W 19–17
vs Holy Cross
1 TFL · 4 SOLO · 6 TOT
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 2 at home.
With D. Vuckovic — 40 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 54 LONG · D. Reynolds — 2 SOLO · 1 TD · 2 TOT
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 19-17vs Holy Cross | 6 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 9-20@ Maryland | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-38@ Mississippi State | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 3-6vs San Diego State | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-25vs Miami (OH) | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-16@ Eastern Michigan | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 21-48@ Ohio | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 21-7vs Ball State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 30 | 14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
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
30 tackles. 1 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
Northern Illinois
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · Northern Illinois
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Northern Illinois · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #126 · 2026 recruiting class #82
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Micah Harper’s 2020 season.
Matches Micah on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Dylan Tucker's senior season at Utah State (2025).
Matches Dylan on
Player DNA