2015 Football Roster
Roster
Delvon Simmons
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 295
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- McKeesport, PA
- High School:
- Texas Tech
CAREER: In his 3-year college career at Texas Tech and USC, he has 84 tackles (including 10 for losses, with 4 sacks), 3 deflections, a fumble recovery and a blocked field goal with 23 starts.
2015: Simmons, who has started at both USC and Texas Tech, will look to start at defensive tackle as a senior in 2015.
2014: Simmons, who sat out the 2013 season after transferring, started at defensive tackle as a junior in 2014. Overall in 2014 while appearing in all 13 games and starting 10 times (all but Fresno State, Stanford, California), with 2 starts coming at nose tackle (Washington State, Nebraska), he had 44 tackles, including 2.5 for losses (with 1 sack), plus a fumble recovery, a deflection and a blocked field goal.
He had 3 tackles against Fresno State, then he recovered a fumble and blocked a field goal at Stanford. He had 6 tackles at Boston College, a tackle for a loss against Oregon State, 4 tackles and a deflection against Arizona State, 7 tackles (0.5 for loss) at Arizona, 7 tackles against Colorado, 5 tackles at Utah, a sack at Washington State and 2 tackles against California. He had 6 tackles at UCLA and 1 against Notre Dame. He had a tackle against Nebraska.
2013: Simmons, who transferred to USC in the fall of 2013 after starring at Texas Tech, redshirted the 2013 season as a junior defensive end because of NCAA transfer rules.
TEXAS TECH: He started 13 games on the defensive line as a sophomore at Texas Tech in 2012, getting 27 tackles, including 6 for a loss (with 2 sacks), and 2 deflections. He had 6 tackles against Minnesota in the Meineke Car Care Bowl and 4 tackles against both Baylor and TCU in 2012. He made the Rivals.com Big 12 All-Freshman team as a 2011 freshman defensive lineman.
He appeared in 10 games as a backup in 2011, getting 13 tackles, including 1.5 for losses (with a sack).
HIGH SCHOOL: His 2010 honors included Super Prep All-American, U.S. Army All-American, Rivals 100, Super Prep All-Northeast, Prep Star All-East, Pennsylvania Class 4A Al-State first team, Pennsylvania Big 33, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Fabulous 22 and Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League Class AAAA All-Foothills Conference as a senior defensive and offensive lineman at McKeesport (Penn.) High. He had 57 tackles, with 11 tackles for loss and 1 sack, in 2010.
PERSONAL: He is a sociology major at USC.
| TAC | LS/YDS | DFL | FR | |
| 2011 (Fr.)#... | 13 | 1.5/8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 (So.)#... | 27 | 6/16 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 (Jr.)##... | 44 | 2.5/7 | 2### | 1 |
| TT CAREER# | 40 | 7.5/24 | 2 | 0 |
| COMBINED... | 84 | 10/31 | 4### | 1 |
## At USC
### includes 1 blocked field goal
2014##
| TAC | LS/YDS | DFL | FR | |
| Fresno St. | 3 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stanford | 0 | 0/0 | 1### | 1 |
| Bost. Coll.* | 6 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ore. St.* | 1 | 1/2 | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona St.* | 4 | 0/0 | 1 | 1 |
| Arizona* | 7 | 0/5/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colorado* | 7 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Utah* | 5 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wash. St.* | 1 | 1/5 | 0 | 0 |
| California | 2 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| UCLA* | 6 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Notre Dame* | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nebraska(HB)* | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 (Jr.)##... | 44 | 2.5/7 | 2### | 2 |
| ### includes 1 blocked field goal |
2012#
| TAC | LS/YDS | DFL | FR | |
| No'west'n St.* | 1 | 1/2 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas State* | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa State* | 3 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma* | 2 | 1.5/4 | 1 | 0 |
| West Virginia* | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| TCU* | 4 | 1.5/2 | 1 | 0 |
| Kansas State* | 2 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas* | 2 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Okla. St.* | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Baylor* | 4 | 2/8 | 0 | 0 |
| Minn. (MCCB)* | 6 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 (So.)#... | 27 | 6/16 | 2 | 0 |
* Starter
| TAC | LS/YDS | DFL | FR | |
| New Mexico | 5 | 1.5/8 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas A&M | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa State | 2 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas | 1 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| Okla. St. | 2 | 0/0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 (Fr.)#... | 13 | 1.5/8 | 0 | 0 |
# At Texas Tech
