Player Dossier

2020-2025

Tulsa

Chris Thompson Jr.

LB • 6'3" • 240 lbs • Desoto, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Chris Thompson Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Tulsa

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Auburn • USC • Tulsa
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida Atlantic

Player Story

Chris Thompson Jr. built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Desoto, TX wearing No. 6, spending time with Auburn, Tulsa, and USC. The clearest part of Chris Thompson Jr.'s career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.9215

Duncanville · Duncanville, TX

Committed To
Auburn
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Chris Thompson Jr., LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Tulsa. Chris Thompson Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
74
TFL
6.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Chris Thompson Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Tulsa · LB
Career Tackles
74
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 27 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Tulsa
Top game
Florida Atlantic
Recruit profile
4-star · Duncanville · Auburn
High school pipeline
Duncanville · 60 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 6 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
1 tackles · LB 1,185th (top 93%) · American Athletic 536th (top 84%) · National 5,103rd (top 83%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 PostseasonAuburn43-0--039.6
2020 Regular SeasonAuburn45-0--039.6
2021 Regular SeasonUSC51110--014.9
2022 Regular SeasonUSC11-0--037.2
2023 PostseasonUSC51-0--039.3
2023 Regular SeasonUSC58-0--039.3
2024 Regular SeasonTulsa11444.511-045.4
2025 Regular SeasonTulsa1110--047.6

Related Context

Chris Thompson Jr. played LB for Auburn, USC, and Tulsa. Across 6 tracked seasons, Chris Thompson Jr. recorded 74 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Tulsa.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Tulsa paired 1 primary output with 14.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Auburn, USC, Tulsa.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Washington State

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2022 Regular Season · USC

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Washington State

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All Games0 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Washington State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Washington State

Result
Sat 10/8vs Washington StateW 30-1411000

Player Story

Chris Thompson Jr. story

Chris Thompson Jr. built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Desoto, TX wearing No. 6, spending time with Auburn, Tulsa, and USC. The clearest part of Chris Thompson Jr.'s career was his defensive production: 74 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 27 career games in the available record. That gives Chris Thompson Jr.'s career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Auburn

    2020

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    USC

    2021-2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Tulsa

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20202020202120222023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 PostseasonAuburn08.31.3
2020 Regular SeasonAuburn08.31.30
2021 Regular SeasonUSC111.23.21
2022 Regular SeasonUSC04.20.9-1
2023 PostseasonUSC07.51.20
2023 Regular SeasonUSC07.51.20
2024 Regular SeasonTulsa6.522.65.76.5
2025 Regular SeasonTulsa114.27.3-5.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Florida Atlantic

Week 14 · L 16-63 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

86.4 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 86.4 takeover score.

#2

@ California

Week 14 · L 14-24 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

69.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 69.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Temple

Week 8 · L 10-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

63.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 98 Florida Atlantic

Week 11 · L 21-40 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

58.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.3 takeover score.

#5

@ South Florida

Week 13 · L 30-63 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

56.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Tulsa

1 primary output · 14.2 efficiency · 7.3 usage

47.6

#2

2024 Regular Season · Tulsa

45.4

6.5 primary · 22.6 efficiency · 5.7 usage

#3

2020 Postseason · Auburn

39.6

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games