Zacch Pickens: DL · South Carolina · #6.
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Zacch Pickens
Wins the gap play after play. Played for two head coaches at South Carolina: Will Muschamp and Shane Beamer. First career honor, 2021: All-SEC. A game that shows it: 12 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Arkansas — Week 2, 2022.
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
42 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 4 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.
On3 Oct 24
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | South Carolina | 42 | 22 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 3 |
| 2021 | South Carolina | 38 | 23 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 1 |
| 2020 | South Carolina | 35 | 16 | 2.5 | 1.0 | -- |
| 2019 | South Carolina | 16 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- |
| Career | 131 | 69 | 11.5 | 7.5 | 4 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 30-44@ No. 16 Arkansas | 12 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 3 | L 7-48vs No. 1 Georgia | 6 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 56-20vs Charlotte | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 50-10vs South Carolina State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-14@ No. 13 Kentucky | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 30-24vs Texas A&M | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 10-23vs Missouri | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-27@ Vanderbilt | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 6-38@ Florida | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 63-38vs No. 5 Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-30@ No. 7 Clemson | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 42 | 22 | 4.0 | 2.5 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
10%4 TFLSack rate
6%2 sacksHurry rate
7%3 hurries42 tackles · 4 for loss · 2.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 5.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Shane Beamer
Pass share
50.9%
418 pass / 403 run
Plays / game
63.2
13 games
Team sack rate
6.0%
448 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2022
42 tackles in 11 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former five-star. Now #33 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons at South Carolina, 8 sacks — drafted at #64 overall by the Chicago Bears.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Will Muschamp, Mike Bobo, and Shane Beamer. Multi-era developmental context.
Next stop · NFL
Chicago BearsEntering 4th NFL season
Chicago BearsEntering 4th NFL season
