Senior defensive lineman on UTEP's 2025 roster.
6′1″ · 315 lb · Jackson, GA
The numbers
sacks · 2025
1.5 TFL · 11 tackles
Best game: 1 TFL, 2 tackles, at Delaware
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive lineman on UTEP's 2025 roster.
How he plays
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move.
Tackles for loss: 39th percentile.
The full scouting readTyler Scott
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Across two seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Chandler Burks and Scotty Walden. The receipt: 2 tackles, 1 TFL against Delaware — Week 14, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (6th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scotty Walden
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 at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UTEP | 11 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Kennesaw State | 9 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 20 | 8 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025
W 42–17
vs UT Martin
1 TOT
Dominant 25-point win at home against UT Martin.
With N. Botsford — 50 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 66 LONG · M. Nelson — 278 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 52.0 · -2 rush yds (2 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 42-17vs UT Martin | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 10-27@ Texas | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 25-31vs UL Monroe | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 11-30vs Louisiana Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 8-19vs Liberty | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Wk 8 | W 35-17@ Sam Houston | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 31-34vs New Mexico State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 31-61@ Delaware | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 11 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
11 tackles. 0 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
UTEP
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive line · UTEP
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
UTEP · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #102 · 2026 recruiting class #92
Player DNA
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jakeem Fletcher’s 2025 season.
Matches Jakeem on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Demond Taylor's senior season at Northern Illinois (2023).
Matches Demond on
Differs from Demond on
Player DNA