2006 Football Roster
Roster
Terrell Thomas
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 200
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Alta Loma
- High School:
- Rancho Cucamonga
He had 4 tackles (0.5 for a loss) against Idaho, 3 tackles and returned an interception 19 yards to set up a USC TD at Nebraska, 5 tackles and 1 deflection against Washington State, 4 tackles, forced a fumble that he recovered and recovered a late onside kick at Washington and 3 tackles and 3 deflections against Stanford. He added 6 tackles and a deflection against Arizona, a deflection at Notre Dame, 2 stops at Oregon and 3 tackles, a deflection and an interception that he returned 25 yards to set up a USC TD against Oregon State. He had 5 stops (including 1.5 for a loss, with a sack that forced a fumble) at California, 3 stops at Arizona State and 4 tackles (including 1 for a loss) and an interception that led to a USC TD versus UCLA (to win USC's Player of the Game versus UCLA Award). He had 4 tackles (1.5 for losses) and a forced fumble against Illinois.
2006: Thomas, who began the 2005 season as a starting cornerback before being sidelined by a knee injury, won back his starting spot as a junior in 2006 and did an outstanding job. Overall in 2006 while appearing in all 13 games, he had 50 tackles, including 3 sacks for minus 32 yards, plus a team-high 12 deflections, 2 interceptions that he returned 7 yards (3.5 avg.), 2 forced fumbles and a TD on a return of a blocked field goal. He made the 2006 All-Pac-10 second team, Rivals.com All-Pac-10 second team and Scout.com All-Pac-10 second team.
He had 2 tackles and an interception at Arkansas and 4 tackles and a forced fumble against Nebraska. He then had a team-high 6 tackles (1 sack) at Arizona and a team-best 9 tackles with 2 deflections at Washington State. He added a tackle and 4 deflections against Washington, a tackle and deflection versus Arizona Stat and 3 stops and a deflection at Oregon State. He had a sack, an interception and returned a blocked field goal 71 yards for a TD at Stanford. He had 6 tackles and a deflection against both Oregon and California. He had 4 stops and 2 deflections against Notre Dame, 3 tackles at UCLA and 4 tackles (with a sack) against Michigan.
2005: Thomas started USC's first 2 games of 2005 at cornerback as a sophomore. But he tore ligaments in his right knee against Arkansas and had surgery, sidelining him for the season. Overall in 2005, he had 5 tackles and 1 deflection. He had 3 tackles at Hawaii and 2 stops with a deflection versus Arkansas.
2004: Thomas, who was switched from safety to cornerback prior to 2004 spring practice, was a backup there and played on special teams as a redshirt freshman in 2004. Overall in 2004 while appearing in 11 games (all but California and Arizona), he had 9 tackles, 2 deflections and 2 interceptions (at BYU and Washington State, both in the end zone; he returned the BYU pick 29 yards). He had 3 stops against Arizona State.
2003: Thomas redshirted as a freshman safety in 2003, his first year at USC. He was sidelined the entire season after having surgery to repair a dislocating right shoulder suffered in 2003 fall practice.
HIGH SCHOOL: He was a 2002 Super Prep All-American, Super Prep All-Farwest, Prep Star All-West, Tom Lemming All-West, Long Beach Press-Telegram Best in the West first team, Tacoma News Tribune Western 100, All-CIF Division II first team and Los Angeles Times All-Inland Empire first team choice as a senior at Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.) High. He ran for 1,250 yards on 134 carries (9.3 avg.) with 14 TDs and caught 30 passes with 5 TDs as a running back and had 115 tackles, 7 interceptions and 4 forced fumbles as a defensive back (he also averaged 44.5 yards on kickoff returns) in 2002.
As a junior in 2001, he had 78 tackles and 5 interceptions, plus 15 catches for 250 yards (16.7 avg.) with 6 TDs.
He also was on the school's track team (with bests of 10.5 in the 100 meters and 21.4 in the 200). Current Trojan Averell Spicer also prepped at Rancho Cucamonga.
PERSONAL: He's a public policy, management and planning major at USC.
| TAC | LS/YDS | DFL | FR | INT | YDS | AVG | TD | LG | |
| 2004 (Fr.) | 9 | 0/0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 14.5 | 0 | 29 |
| 2005 (So.) | 5 | 0/0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 (Jr.) | 50 | 3/32 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3.5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2007 (Sr.) | 45 | 4.5/29 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 44 | 11.0 | 0 | 25 |
| CAREER | 109 | 7.5/61 | 22 | 1 | 8 | 80 | 10.0 | 0 | 29 |
