Senior linebacker for Marshall. 2020: 82 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
5′10″ · 214 lb · Chesapeake, VA
The story
4 linebacker for Marshall. 2020: 82 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
Tavante Beckett
Across three seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Justin Fuente and Doc Holliday. His first career honor landed in 2020: Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year. The receipt: 16 tackles against App State — Week 3, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Marshall, 209 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA · 1ST TEAM
All-Conference USA 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2016–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Doc Holliday.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: qb hurries (98th percentile). Strength: tackles (98th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 12.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road2g | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 8.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 12.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Gibson
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
First team in his league at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Marshall | 82 | 27 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Marshall | 121 | 50 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| 2016 | Virginia Tech | 6 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 209 | 79 | 13.0 | 3.5 | 5 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2020
W 17–7
vs App State
16 TOT · 8 SOLO
With R. LeFevre — 38 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 46 LONG · G. Wells — 163 yds · 0 TD · 1 INT · 43 rush yds (6 car) · 1 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 59-0vs Eastern Kentucky | 8 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 17-7vs App State | 16 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 16 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 38-14@ Western Kentucky | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-17@ Louisiana Tech | 8 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 20-9vs Florida Atlantic | 13 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 51-10vs Massachusetts | 11 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-14vs Middle Tennessee | 11 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 16 | L 13-22vs UAB | 13 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 82 | 27 | 5.5 | 1.5 | — | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
82 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 5.5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
Player DNA