Xavier Thigpen: DL · Southern Miss · #32.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Xavier Thigpen
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. The three seasons at Southern Miss span two head coaches: Todd Monken and Jay Hopson. The first career honor came in 2017: All-Conference USA. A game that shows it: 8 tackles and 1 sack against UAB — Week 9, 2017.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
44 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 11 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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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Southern Miss | 44 | 22 | 11.0 | 5.0 | 2 |
| 2016 | Southern Miss | 34 | 21 | 13.5 | 6.0 | 2 |
| 2015 | Southern Miss | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 78 | 43 | 24.5 | 11.0 | 4 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-24vs Kentucky | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-0vs Southern | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 28-17@ UL Monroe | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 5 | L 28-43vs North Texas | 6 | 2 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 6 | W 31-29@ UTSA | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-0vs UTEP | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-27@ Louisiana Tech | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 12-30vs UAB | 8 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 10-24@ Tennessee | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 43-34@ Rice | 6 | 4 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 12 | W 66-21vs Charlotte | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-27@ Marshall | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 13-42vs Florida State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 44 | 22 | 11.0 | 5.0 | — | 2 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
25%11 TFLSack rate
11%5 sacksHurry rate
11%5 hurries44 tackles · 11 for loss · 5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jay Hopson
Pass share
47.4%
438 pass / 486 run
Plays / game
71.1
13 games
Team sack rate
3.3%
457 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2017
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
How it ended
Three seasons at Southern Miss, 11 sacks — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA · 2ND TEAM
All-Conference USA 2nd team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Todd Monken → Jay Hopson. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
