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Career Statistics
DEFENSE
| Tackles | Sacks / | TFL / | Int/ | High | |||||||
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| Season | G | Solo | Asst | Total | Yards | Yards | FF | FR | P Def | Yds | Tackles |
| 2010 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 17 | -- | 1/1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 5-UTM |
| 2009 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3-Mem |
| Totals | 25 | 13 | 14 | 27 | -- | 1/1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 5-UTM |
Honors
- 2009 Academic All-SEC
2010
Games/Starts: 13/0 • Played in every game • Special teams tackle runner-up for second straight season, tying three other players with nine stops
• Career-high fi ve tackles in season opener against UT Martin • Also led UT eff ort in that game with two pass breakups • Posted pair of tackles versus UAB,
including key stop for no gain on third-and-6 that led to missed fi eld goal in eventual double-overtime victory • Contributed four tackles on special teams at
Memphis • Entered fall campaign having just completed undergraduate degree in marketing • Father's side of family has owned Tennessee football season
tickets since 1930s, part of reason Tyler chose Vols over several scholarship off ers elsewhere.
2009
- Games/Starts: 12/0
- Standout on special teams who was second on squad to Eric Berry with 10 tackles via punt or kickoff coverage
- Moved into key role as free safety reserve by late season and saw game action
- Best tackle games were three against Memphis and two at Alabama
2008
- Squad member
- Intercepted a third-quarter pass and returned it 71 yards to set up a Tennessee touchdown in the Vols' 37-21 junior varsity win over Hargrave (Va.) Military Academy
2007
- Squad member
2006
- Redshirted
High School
- All-State and All-Midstate as senior
- Region 3-5A MVP and Upper Cumberland District Offensive MVP
- Helped Cookeville to combined record of 22-4 over last two seasons, both times reaching state quarterfinals
- Played in Tennessee-Kentucky All-Star Game alongside current teammate Nick Reveiz
- Compiled 1,700 all-purpose yards and scored 29 touchdowns while making seven interceptions on defense
- Also had seven interceptions as junior
- Played cornerback, tailback, wide receiver and safety during his career
- Three-year letterman at point guard in basketball, and lettered two years in track and field as specialist in 100M, 200M, 4x100M and 4x200M events
- Coach at Cookeville High School - Jerry Joslin
