Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025UAB
Tylan McNichols
LB • 6'0" • 220 lbs • Decatur, MS, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Tylan McNichols shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22 disruption score.
Impact Production
44
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
46
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
55
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UAB
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- UAB
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Akron
Player Story
Tylan McNichols built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Decatur, MS wearing No. 12, spending time with UAB. The clearest part of Tylan McNichols' career was his defensive production: 58...
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- Committed To
- UAB
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Tylan McNichols, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UAB. Tylan McNichols shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 58
- TFL
- 1.5
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Tylan McNichols quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UAB · LB
- Career Tackles
- 58
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 18 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · UAB
- Top game
- Akron
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Newton County · UAB
- High school pipeline
- Newton County · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 12 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 39 tackles · LB 384th (top 31%) · American Athletic 100th (top 16%) · National 975th (top 16%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | UAB | 9 | 19 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 40.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UAB | 9 | 39 | 1.5 | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 42.8 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | UAB to Wake Forest | G5/FCS to P4 | 79.1 | Jan 13, 2026 |
Tylan McNichols played LB for UAB. Across 2 tracked seasons, Tylan McNichols recorded 58 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UAB.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
UAB paired 3.5 primary output with 22 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 22 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Akron
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · UAB
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
22
Usage
4.1
Consistency
14.8
Best Game by takeover score
Akron
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Alabama State: 0. Navy: 0. Akron: 1. Tennessee: 0. Army: 0. Florida Atlantic: 0.5. Memphis: 1. UConn: 1. Rice: 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. Alabama State: 3 by 12.5. Navy: 2 by 8.3. Akron: 8 by 43.3. Tennessee: 4 by 16.7. Army: 1 by 4.2. Florida Atlantic: 4 by 21.7. Memphis: 7 by 39.2. UConn: 1 by 14.2. Rice: 9 by 37.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 6 · -0.4 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Akron
Best efficiency game
43.3 vs Akron
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/8 | @ Rice | L 17-24 | 9 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ UConn | L 19-38 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | vs Memphis | W 31-24 | 7 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Florida Atlantic | L 33-53 | 4 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Army | L 13-31 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Tennessee | L 24-56 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/14 | vs Akron | W 31-28 | 8 | 5 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Navy | L 24-38 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 8/29 | vs Alabama State | W 52-42 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Tylan McNichols story
Tylan McNichols built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Decatur, MS wearing No. 12, spending time with UAB. The clearest part of Tylan McNichols' career was his defensive production: 58 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 2 passes defended across 18 career games in the available record. That gives Tylan McNichols' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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UAB
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | UAB | 0 | 8.8 | 1.6 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | UAB | 3.5 | 22 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 117 Akron
Week 3 · W 31-28
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
71.4 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 71.4 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 39 Memphis
Week 8 · W 31-24 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
64.5 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.5 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 98 Florida Atlantic
Week 7 · L 33-53 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
50 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 50 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 53 UConn
Week 10 · L 19-38
1
Havoc Plays
40.3 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 120 Rice
Week 11 · L 17-24 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
26.4 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 26.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · UAB
3.5 primary output · 22 efficiency · 4.1 usage
42.8
#2
2024 Regular Season · UAB
40.8
0 primary · 8.8 efficiency · 1.6 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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