2019: Moved up to linebacker … Started seven games before missing the final three due to injury … Honorable mention All-NCAC selection … Key defender on a team that ranked third nationally in red zone defense and in the top 25 nationally in scoring defense … Helped the Scots hold the opposition to 162 points and 3,433 yards, the program’s best statistical showings in those categories since 2008 and 2011, respectively … Ended the year seventh on the team with 44 tackles … Credited with 4.5 tackles for loss, two sacks, an interception, a fumble recovery, and a forced fumble … NCAC Player of the Week after Wooster shut out Oberlin (Sept. 14) in what marked the Scots’ first shutout in a NCAC opener since 2000 … Logged eight tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, a sack, and a 13-yard fumble return against the Yeomen … Upped career-high in tackles to 13 against Wittenberg (Sept. 21) and had an interception on the game’s opening drive … Tallied nine stops versus Denison (Oct. 19).
2018: Finished fifth on the team with 47 tackles in return to gridiron … Played in nine games and earned starting assignment for four … Reached double-digit tackles at Denison (Nov. 3) with 10 … Two weeks prior had eight stops versus Hiram (Oct. 20) … Found form at end of year with 29 tackles over four starts … Added two interceptions on the year with picks coming versus Allegheny (Sept. 8) and at Oberlin (Oct. 13).
2017: Did not play.
2016: Earned a starting role as a rookie and ranked second on the team with 63 tackles … Played in all 10 games … Added 1.5 tackles for loss, and was credited with a pair of breakups … Exploded onto the scene with a season-high 12 tackles at regional power Washington & Jefferson (Sept. 3) … Recorded at least six tackles in first eight games of the season.
Prior to Wooster: All-district, all-league, and All-Blade first-team selection as a senior while prepping for Greg Dempsey at Toledo Central Catholic High School … Helped team win the OHSAA Div. III championship in 2014, and make it back to the championship game in 2015 … Lettered in football three times and all four years in track and field.
Personal: Born May 18, 1998 … Son of Kashif Phillips and Nilanna Thompson … Majoring in communication studies.
