Player Dossier

2015-2019

TCU

Shameik Blackshear

DL • 6'5" • 272 lbs • Bluffton, SC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Shameik Blackshear shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

15%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

36

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

24

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

56

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2018 Postseason · South Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
South Carolina • TCU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Chattanooga

Player Story

Shameik Blackshear built his college career from 2015 through 2019 as a defensive lineman from Bluffton, SC wearing No. 91, spending time with South Carolina and TCU. The clearest part of Shameik Blackshear's career...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2015 · Rating 0.9343

Bluffton · Bluffton, SC

Committed To
South Carolina
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2015

Shameik Blackshear, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Postseason · South Carolina. Shameik Blackshear shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
45
TFL
6
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Shameik Blackshear quick answers

Latest team and position
TCU · DL
Career Tackles
45
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 22 games
Best season
2018 Postseason · South Carolina
Top game
Chattanooga
Recruit profile
4-star · Bluffton · South Carolina
High school pipeline
Bluffton · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 91 · Senior
2019 Tackles rank
12 tackles · DL 458th (top 54%) · Big 12 191st (top 43%) · National 2,541st (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina2210--026.7
2017 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina46-0--039.3
2018 PostseasonSouth Carolina93-0--042.5
2018 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina922311-042.5
2019 Regular SeasonTCU71221.5--031.1

Related Context

Shameik Blackshear played DL for South Carolina and TCU. Across 5 tracked seasons, Shameik Blackshear recorded 45 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with South Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Postseason

South Carolina paired 5 primary output with 17.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2019 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across South Carolina, TCU.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2019 Regular Season · TCU

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

12.1

Usage

3.9

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 0. Purdue: 0. SMU: 0. Kansas: 1.5. Iowa State: 0. Texas: 0. Oklahoma State: 2

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 2 by 8.3. Purdue: 1 by 4.2. SMU: 3 by 12.5. Kansas: 2 by 23.3. Iowa State: 1 by 4.2. Texas: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma State: 1 by 24.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0.4 · Games = 4 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

24.2 vs Oklahoma State

Result
Sat 11/2@ Oklahoma StateSplash gameL 27-3411110
Sat 10/26vs TexasW 37-2720000
Sat 10/5@ Iowa StateL 24-4911000
Sat 9/28vs KansasW 51-142010.500
Sat 9/21vs SMUL 38-4133000
Sat 9/14@ PurdueW 34-1310000
Sun 9/1vs Arkansas-Pine BluffW 39-721000

Player Story

Shameik Blackshear story

Shameik Blackshear built his college career from 2015 through 2019 as a defensive lineman from Bluffton, SC wearing No. 91, spending time with South Carolina and TCU. The clearest part of Shameik Blackshear's career was his defensive production: 45 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks across 22 career games in the available record. That gives Shameik Blackshear's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    South Carolina

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    TCU

    2019

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

201520162017201820182019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina0
2016 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina19.23.31
2017 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina06.31.4-1
2018 PostseasonSouth Carolina517.155
2018 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina517.150
2019 Regular SeasonTCU3.512.13.9-1.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Chattanooga

Week 12 · W 49-9

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

79.4 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.4 takeover score.

#2

@ Oklahoma State

Week 10 · L 27-34 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Kansas

Week 5 · W 51-14 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

55.8 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 55.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Mississippi State

Week 2 · L 14-27 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

55 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 55 takeover score.

#5

@ Florida

Week 11 · L 31-35 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

48.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2018 Postseason · South Carolina

5 primary output · 17.1 efficiency · 5 usage

42.5

#2

2018 Regular Season · South Carolina

42.5

5 primary · 17.1 efficiency · 5 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · South Carolina

39.3

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games