Usage / Role
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Major defensive role
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Player Dossier
2019-2022Southern Miss
Malik Shorts
DB • 6'0" • 202 lbs • Bassfield, MS, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Malik Shorts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 38.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
98
Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive back
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Reliability
80
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
85
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Southern Miss
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Southern Miss
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Louisiana
Player Story
Malik Shorts built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a defensive back from Bassfield, MS wearing No. 9, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of Malik Shorts' career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Southern Miss
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2018
Malik Shorts, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Southern Miss. Malik Shorts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 38.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 278
- TFL
- 6.5
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 13
Quick Answers
Malik Shorts quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Southern Miss · DB
- Career Tackles
- 278
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 39 games
- Best season
- 2021 Regular Season · Southern Miss
- Top game
- Louisiana
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Bassfield · Southern Miss
- High school pipeline
- Bassfield · 5 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 9 · Junior
- 2022 Tackles rank
- 91 tackles · DB 4th (top 1%) · Sun Belt 8th (top 2%) · National 84th (top 2%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Postseason | Southern Miss | 7 | 7 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 13.1 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 7 | 10 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 13.1 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 9 | 81 | 3 | 0 | - | 3 | 0 | 56.9 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 11 | 89 | 2 | 0 | - | 7 | 0 | 69.9 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 12 | 91 | 1.5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 46.8 |
Related Context
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Malik Shorts played DB for Southern Miss. Across 4 tracked seasons, Malik Shorts recorded 278 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Southern Miss.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season
Southern Miss paired 11 primary output with 42.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 42.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2022 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UTEP
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 90.9th percentile of the selected season.
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2021 Regular Season · Southern Miss
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
42.6
Usage
10.3
Consistency
51.5
Best Game by takeover score
UTEP
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. South Alabama: 2. Grambling: 2. Troy: 3. Alabama: 1. Rice: 0. UTEP: 2. UAB: 1. Middle Tennessee: 0. North Texas: 0. UTSA: 0. Louisiana Tech: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. South Alabama: 4 by 36.7. Grambling: 6 by 45. Troy: 7 by 59.2. Alabama: 10 by 51.7. Rice: 12 by 50. UTEP: 6 by 45. UAB: 14 by 60. Middle Tennessee: 4 by 16.7. North Texas: 13 by 50. UTSA: 5 by 20.8. Louisiana Tech: 8 by 33.3
Split Comparison
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Wins1 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 9 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
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Best efficiency game
60 vs UAB
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/20 | @ Louisiana Tech | W 35-19 | 8 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/13 | @ UTSA | L 17-27 | 5 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/6 | vs North Texas10+ tackles | L 14-38 | 13 | 10 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/30 | @ Middle Tennessee | L 10-35 | 4 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/16 | vs UAB10+ tackles | L 0-34 | 14 | 7 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/9 | vs UTEPSplash game | L 13-26 | 6 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/2 | @ Rice10+ tackles | L 19-24 | 12 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/25 | @ Alabama10+ tackles | L 14-63 | 10 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/18 | vs TroySplash game | L 9-21 | 7 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | — | — |
| Sat 9/11 | vs GramblingSplash game | W 37-0 | 6 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sun 9/5 | @ South AlabamaSplash game | L 7-31 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | — | — |
Player Story
Malik Shorts story
Malik Shorts built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a defensive back from Bassfield, MS wearing No. 9, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of Malik Shorts' career was his defensive production: 278 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 6 interceptions, and 13 passes defended across 39 career games in the available record. That gives Malik Shorts' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Southern Miss
2019-2022
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Postseason | Southern Miss | 1 | 13 | 3 | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 1 | 13 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 7 | 44.3 | 10 | 6 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 11 | 42.6 | 10.3 | 4 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 8.5 | 38.3 | 6.9 | -2.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Louisiana
Week 9 · W 39-24 · Conference game
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
91.9 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 91.9 takeover score.
#2
vs Louisiana Tech
Week 3 · L 30-31 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
90 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 90 takeover score.
#3
vs UTSA
Week 12 · L 20-23 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
85.8 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 85.8 takeover score.
#4
vs UTEP
Week 6 · L 13-26 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
70.6 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.
#5
vs Troy
Week 3 · L 9-21
3
Havoc Plays
66.7 takeover
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 66.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Regular Season · Southern Miss
11 primary output · 42.6 efficiency · 10.3 usage
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#2
2020 Regular Season · Southern Miss
56.9
7 primary · 44.3 efficiency · 10 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Southern Miss
46.8
8.5 primary · 38.3 efficiency · 6.9 usage
Milestones
12
Impact games
8
Splash games
11
10+ tackle games
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