Safety, Middle Tennessee, 2017–⁠21

Reed Blankenship

Number: No. 12
Height: 6′1″
Weight: 200 lb
Class (2021): Senior
Hometown: Athens, AL
Born: Mar 2, 1999

Reed Blankenship played safety at Middle Tennessee (2017–⁠21).

Best season: 110; Tackles, 2021 (Middle Tennessee, 7–⁠6)
Best game: 17 tackles; At Old Dominion, week 9, 2018: No. 1 defensive game in FBS that week

17tackles, career highat Old Dominion, 2018 2interceptions, career hightwice; last vs. Tennessee State, 2019

Defense

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

101

110

7–⁠68–⁠64–⁠83–⁠67–⁠6

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2017	Middle Tennessee	68	44	7	1	2	0	3
2018	Middle Tennessee	101	63	8	1	4	7	1
2019	Middle Tennessee	58	40	0.5	0	2	3	1
2020	Middle Tennessee	76	37	1	0	0	1	0
2021	Middle Tennessee	110	75	10	1	1	8	1
Career		413	259	26.5	3	9	19	6

Returns

Season	Team	PR	Yds
2017	Middle Tennessee	6	69
2018	Middle Tennessee	2	35
2020	Middle Tennessee	3	2
Career		11	106

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
2017	Middle Tennessee	12	S	Yr 1
2018	Middle Tennessee	12	S	Yr 2
2019	Middle Tennessee	12	S	Yr 3
2020	Middle Tennessee	12	S	Yr 4
2021	Middle Tennessee	12	S	Sr. (Yr 5)	6′1″	200

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

2021 Middle Tennessee 13 games, 110 tackles, 1 sack, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 4	vs.Monmouth	W 50–⁠15	5	2	1	0	0	0
Sep 11	atVirginia Tech	L 14–⁠35	8	6	1	0	0	0
Sep 18	atUTSA	L 13–⁠27	13	7	1	0	0	1
Sep 24	atCharlotte	L 39–⁠42	13	6	0	0	0	1
Oct 2	vs.Marshall	W 34–⁠28	7	5	0	0	0	1
Oct 9	atLiberty	L 13–⁠41	9	8	1	0	0	0
Oct 22	atUConn	W 44–⁠13	9	9	2	0	0	2
Oct 30	vs.Southern Miss	W 35–⁠10	8	7	2	0	0	2
Nov 6	atWestern Kentucky	L 21–⁠48	9	7	0	0	0	0
Nov 13	vs.Florida International	W 50–⁠10	9	5	1	1	1	1
Nov 20	vs.Old Dominion	L 17–⁠24	6	2	0	0	0	0
Nov 27	atFlorida Atlantic	W 27–⁠17	10	7	1	0	0	0
Dec 17 ✦	vs.Toledo	W 31–⁠24	4	4	0	0	0	0

2020 Middle Tennessee 9 games, 76 tackles

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	PD
Sep 5	atArmy	L 0–⁠42	9	5	1	0
Sep 19	vs.Troy	L 14–⁠47	6	4	0	0
Sep 25	atUTSA	L 35–⁠37	7	4	0	1
Oct 3	vs.Western Kentucky	L 17–⁠20	6	4	0	0
Oct 10	atFlorida International	W 31–⁠28	8	3	0	0
Oct 17	vs.North Texas	L 35–⁠52	7	4	0	0
Oct 24	atRice	W 40–⁠34	14	4	0	0
Nov 14	atMarshall	L 14–⁠42	11	4	0	0
Nov 21	atTroy	W 20–⁠17	8	5	0	0

2019 Middle Tennessee 7 games, 58 tackles, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Int	PD
Aug 31	atMichigan	L 21–⁠40	7	3	0	0	0
Sep 7	vs.Tennessee State	W 45–⁠26	9	7	0	2	1
Sep 14	vs.Duke	L 18–⁠41	9	6	0	0	0
Sep 28	atIowa	L 3–⁠48	8	6	0	0	0
Oct 5	vs.Marshall	W 24–⁠13	6	4	0	0	0
Oct 12	atFlorida Atlantic	L 13–⁠28	13	11	0	0	1
Oct 19	atNorth Texas	L 30–⁠33	6	3	0.5	0	1

2018 Middle Tennessee 12 games, 101 tackles, 1 sack, 4 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 1	atVanderbilt	L 7–⁠35	3	1	0	0	0	1
Sep 8	vs.UT Martin	W 61–⁠37	3	2	0	0	0	0
Sep 29	vs.Florida Atlantic	W 25–⁠24	10	9	1.5	0	0	0
Oct 5	atMarshall	W 34–⁠24	14	2	0.5	0	0	0
Oct 13	atFlorida International	L 21–⁠24	11	7	0	0	0	0
Oct 20	vs.Charlotte	W 21–⁠13	5	5	0	0	0	1
Oct 27	atOld Dominion	W 51–⁠17	17	9	3	1	1	0
Nov 2	vs.Western Kentucky	W 29–⁠10	8	7	1	0	1	2
Nov 10	atUTEP	W 48–⁠32	9	3	0	0	0	2
Nov 17	atKentucky	L 23–⁠34	10	8	1	0	0	0
Dec 1	vs.UAB	L 25–⁠27	11	10	1	0	0	1
Dec 15 ✦	vs.App State	L 13–⁠45	–	–	–	–	2	–

2017 Middle Tennessee 12 games, 68 tackles, 1 sack, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int
Sep 9	atSyracuse	W 30–⁠23	5	3	0	0	1
Sep 16	atMinnesota	L 3–⁠34	4	2	1	0	0
Sep 23	vs.Bowling Green	W 24–⁠13	6	5	0	0	0
Sep 30	atFlorida Atlantic	L 20–⁠38	13	6	1	0	0
Oct 7	vs.Florida International	W 37–⁠17	4	3	1	0	0
Oct 14	atUAB	L 23–⁠25	5	4	2	0	0
Oct 20	vs.Marshall	L 10–⁠38	5	4	0	0	0
Nov 4	vs.UTEP	W 30–⁠3	2	2	1	1	0
Nov 11	atCharlotte	W 35–⁠21	4	3	1	0	1
Nov 17	atWestern Kentucky	L 38–⁠41	11	6	0	0	0
Nov 25	vs.Old Dominion	W 41–⁠10	4	4	0	0	0
Dec 16 ✦	vs.Arkansas State	W 35–⁠30	5	2	0	0	0

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

Before the draft

Drill	Pro day 2022
Height	6′0¾″
Weight	203 lb
Arm length	31⅝″
Hand size	9⅜″
Wingspan	76¼″
40-yard dash	4.55 s
10-yard split	1.50 s
Vertical jump	33½″
Broad jump	10′1″
Bench press	15 reps
3-cone drill	7.09 s
20-yard shuttle	4.22 s

Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

5 seasons, 60 games with a stat; latest team: Houston Texans.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Int
2022	Philadelphia Eagles	9	33	1
2023	Philadelphia Eagles	15	110	3
2024	Philadelphia Eagles	15	74	4
2025	Philadelphia Eagles	16	83	1
2026 (so far)	Houston Texans	5	39	1
NFL career		60	339	10

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

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At a glance

Career highs