Player Dossier

2023-2025

South Alabama

Tyler Thomas

DL • 6'5" • 259 lbs • Mobile, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tyler Thomas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.4 disruption score.

Usage Score

11

Efficiency

19.4

Consistency

11.1

Season Value

16.6

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season · UAB

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
3
Program Path
UAB • South Alabama
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: North Texas

Scouting Read

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Tyler Thomas, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season · UAB. Tyler Thomas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.4 disruption score.

Tyler Thomas played DL for UAB and South Alabama. Across 3 tracked seasons, Tyler Thomas recorded 36 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with South Alabama.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

UAB paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19.4 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 UAB, South Alabama.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: North Texas

Loss with 3 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 Regular Season · South Alabama

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

19.4

Usage

11

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Southern Miss

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Unknown: 0. Coastal Carolina: 2. North Texas: 3. Georgia State: 0. Louisiana: 0. Southern Miss: 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. Unknown: 3 by 12.5. Coastal Carolina: 4 by 36.7. North Texas: 3 by 42.5. Georgia State: 2 by 8.3. Louisiana: 2 by 8.3. Southern Miss: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 2 · -1.7 vs Losses
Losses1.7 · Games = 3 · +1.7 vs Wins
First Half1.7 · Games = 3 · +1.7 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · -1.7 vs First Half

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

North Texas

Best efficiency game

42.5 vs North Texas

Result
Sat 11/22vs Southern MissW 42-3520000
Sat 11/1vs LouisianaL 22-3120000
Thu 10/23@ Georgia StateW 38-3121000
Sat 9/27@ North TexasSplash gameL 22-3632210
Sat 9/20vs Coastal CarolinaL 20-3841110
Sat 8/30vs Unknown31000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    UAB

    2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    South Alabama

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonUAB04.20.8
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama617.45.76
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama519.411-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

North Texas

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Primary metric

3 disruption/tackle impact with 60.8 takeover score.

#2

Ohio

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 50.6 takeover score.

#3

Arkansas State

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 44.4 takeover score.

#4

Coastal Carolina

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 41.2 takeover score.

#5

Georgia Southern

1.5

Primary metric

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 37.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2023 Regular Season · UAB

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · South Alabama

19.2

6 primary · 17.4 efficiency · 5.7 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · South Alabama

16.6

5 primary · 19.4 efficiency · 11 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8437

Cottage Hill Christian Academy · Mobile, AL

Committed To
South Alabama
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Career Facts

2

Career teams

3

Seasons tracked

36

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 3 tracked seasons, 15 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.