Defensive line, Tennessee, 2015–⁠18

Kyle Phillips

Number: No. 5
Height: 6′4″
Weight: 273 lb
Class (2018): Senior
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Born: May 5, 1997, in Nashville, Tennessee

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Kyle Phillips played defensive line at Tennessee (2015–⁠18).

9tackles, career highat Auburn, 2018 2sacks, career highvs. Southern Miss, 2017

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2016	Tennessee	15	9	2	0	0	2	0
2017	Tennessee	33	16	4.5	2	0	2	4
2018	Tennessee	55	27	7	4	1	4	5
Career		103	52	13.5	6	1	8	9

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2015	Tennessee	5	DL	Fr.
2016	Tennessee	5	DL	So.
2017	Tennessee	5	DL	Jr.
2018	Tennessee	5	DL	Sr.	6′4″	273

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2018 Tennessee 12 games, 55 tackles, 4 sacks, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 1	vs.West Virginia	L 14–⁠40	2	1	0	0	0	0
Sep 8	vs.East Tennessee State	W 59–⁠3	1	0	0	0	0	1
Sep 15	vs.UTEP	W 24–⁠0	3	2	0	0	0	0
Sep 22	vs.Florida	L 21–⁠47	3	3	1	1	0	0
Sep 29	atGeorgia	L 12–⁠38	7	3	0	0	0	0
Oct 13	atAuburn	W 30–⁠24	9	3	0.5	0.5	0	0
Oct 20	vs.Alabama	L 21–⁠58	2	0	0	0	1	0
Oct 27	atSouth Carolina	L 24–⁠27	6	2	1.5	0.5	0	0
Nov 3	vs.Charlotte	W 14–⁠3	4	4	2	1	0	2
Nov 10	vs.Kentucky	W 24–⁠7	6	2	0.5	0	0	0
Nov 17	vs.Missouri	L 17–⁠50	7	4	1.5	1	0	0
Nov 24	atVanderbilt	L 13–⁠38	5	3	0	0	0	1

2017 Tennessee 11 games, 33 tackles, 2 sacks

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Sep 9	vs.Indiana State	W 42–⁠7	2	0	1	0	1
Sep 16	atFlorida	L 20–⁠26	1	0	0	0	1
Sep 23	vs.Massachusetts	W 17–⁠13	3	1	1	0	0
Sep 30	vs.Georgia	L 0–⁠41	1	0	0	0	0
Oct 14	vs.South Carolina	L 9–⁠15	3	1	0.5	0	0
Oct 21	atAlabama	L 7–⁠45	6	2	0	0	0
Oct 28	atKentucky	L 26–⁠29	4	3	0	0	0
Nov 4	vs.Southern Miss	W 24–⁠10	5	3	2	2	0
Nov 11	atMissouri	L 17–⁠50	4	4	0	0	0
Nov 18	vs.LSU	L 10–⁠30	3	1	0	0	0
Nov 25	vs.Vanderbilt	L 24–⁠42	1	1	0	0	0

2016 Tennessee 6 games, 15 tackles

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	PD
Sep 10	vs.Virginia Tech	W 45–⁠24	1	1	0	0
Sep 24	vs.Florida	W 38–⁠28	1	1	0	0
Oct 29	atSouth Carolina	L 21–⁠24	5	3	1	0
Nov 12	vs.Kentucky	W 49–⁠36	2	0	0	2
Nov 19	vs.Missouri	W 63–⁠37	4	3	0	0
Nov 26	atVanderbilt	L 34–⁠45	2	1	1	0

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Drill	Pro day 2019
Height	6′3¾″
Weight	277 lb
Arm length	33½″
Hand size	9¾″
Wingspan	80¾″^W
40-yard dash	4.68 s
10-yard split	1.65 s^W
Vertical jump	32½″
Broad jump	9′7″
Bench press	17 reps
3-cone drill	7.44 s
20-yard shuttle	4.77 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

4 seasons, 28 games with a stat; latest team: New Orleans Saints.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks
2019	New York Jets	13	39	1.5
2020	New York Jets	6	9	0
2021	New York Jets	6	14	1
2023	New Orleans Saints	3	3	0
NFL career		28	65	2.5

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

Other pro football

Years	League	Team
2025	UFL	Birmingham Stallions *
2025	UFL	DC Defenders

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams. * Off-season roster or practice squad only.

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