Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
USC paired 7 primary output with 18.9 efficiency.
Player Stats
DeCarlos Nicholson College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 116
- TFL
- 3
- Sacks
- 1
- Passes defended
- 12
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 3 | 5 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 11.4 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 11 | 42 | 2 | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 27.8 |
| 2024 Postseason | USC | 11 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 27.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | USC | 11 | 23 | - | 0 | - | 5 | 0 | 27.9 |
| 2025 Postseason | USC | 13 | 4 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 44.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | USC | 13 | 38 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 0 | 44.9 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 18.9 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Mississippi State, USC.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Illinois
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Postseason · USC
Games
13
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
18.9
Usage
5.8
Consistency
12.8
Best Game by takeover score
Illinois
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. TCU: 1. Missouri State: 0. Georgia Southern: 1. Purdue: 0. Michigan State: 0. Illinois: 2. Michigan: 1. Notre Dame: 0. Nebraska: 0. Northwestern: 2. Iowa: 0. Oregon: 0. UCLA: 0
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 on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. TCU: 4 by 26.7. Missouri State: 1 by 4.2. Georgia Southern: 1 by 14.2. Purdue: 1 by 4.2. Michigan State: 3 by 12.5. Illinois: 3 by 32.5. Michigan: 3 by 22.5. Notre Dame: 6 by 25. Nebraska: 5 by 20.8. Northwestern: 3 by 32.5. Iowa: 6 by 25. Oregon: 2 by 8.3. UCLA: 4 by 16.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.4 · Games = 9 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Wins
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