Erases the deep middle of the field. Two seasons in the Tennessee secondary to date. The first career honor came in 2025: All-SEC. On tape: 7 tackles against Auburn, Week 5, 2026.
35 tackles · 0 sacks
Style of play
Style of play
Play style
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
Each week: his team’s game, the stories about him that week, and the week’s biggest news headline.
In the news across his career
Gold: stories we tracked each season, drawn on a square-root scale so a quiet year still shows. Hatched: before we started tracking (2025). Earlier years had thinner coverage, so compare within a stop, not across decades.
Stories are headlines grouped by what they are about, counted through Nov 4.
Elite: passes defended (100th percentile). Strength: solo tackles (80th percentile). Concern: tackles for loss (10th percentile).
Box-score production (6)
Passes defended#4 / 2515 · 100th pct
9
Solo tackles#471 / 2515 · 80th pct
20
Tackles#518 / 2515 · 79th pct
35
Sacks#1116 / 2515 · 28th pct
0.0
QB hurries#1214 / 2515 · 26th pct
0
Tackles for loss#2000 / 2515 · 10th pct
0.0
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
Home and road splits, scheme and staff
Splits · Per-game
2026 season · 8 games
Home/Road · Season halves
Home vs Road
TKL/g
TFL/g
SACK/g
PD/g
Home5g
3.2
0.0
0.0
0.8
Road3g
6.3
0.0
0.0
1.7
First half vs Second half
TKL/g
TFL/g
SACK/g
PD/g
Weeks 1-77g
4.1
0.0
0.0
0.9
Weeks 8+1g
6.0
0.0
0.0
3.0
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
2026 season
Head Coach
Josh Heupel
Pass share
37.5%
207 pass / 345 run
Plays / game
69.0
8 games
Team sack rate
9.1%
242 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Awards
Player standing · 2025
All-Conference
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 49% of returning players who ranked #1–3 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 43–54%).
Two seasons at Tennessee
2026 is in progress.
2026 Tennessee Heupel
Year 2 · 8 games
2025 Tennessee Heupel
Year 1 · 13 games
All-conference
High school Milton
Alpharetta, GA · Class of 2025
Three-star, No. 702 in the 2025 class. Signed with Tennessee.