Player Detail

TREMAINE TYLER
Cornerback
2002 / 2005
Orangeburg, SC

Biography
Tyler rushed and passed for over 1,000 yards as a quarterback for Edisto High in 2000, also starring at defensive back during his career with the Cougars. Tyler was named to the Shrine Bowl and to The State’s top fifty players in the state. PrepStar rated him as the number four athlete in the Atlantic Region in the 2002 class. He picked USC over Clemson, N.C. State and Georgia Tech in July 2001. He started once as a true freshman in 2002 (vs. Vanderbilt) while also playing well against Temple (broke up two passes) and Clemson (four tackles and two passes defensed). Tyler started against Mississippi in 2003 and picked off an LSU pass at the USC 1 that year. He earned a starting spot in 2004, making eleven starts. He had a forty yard interception return against Alabama, down to the Tide eight yard line, setting up a USC TD in the 20-3 Gamecock win. Tyler also stopped a Kentucky drive at the Carolina 15 with an interception in a narrow 12-7 USC win. He won the Spring Carolina Hustle Award for the defense in the spring of 2005 and split time starting at cornerback and free safety as a senior. He had 11 tackles against Arkansas that year and recovered a fumble against Clemson. He also broke up a pass, forced a fumble and recovered a fumble against Troy. He played one season with the Columbia Stingers of the National Indoor Football League (2007) and lives in the Columbia area.

Biography

Tyler rushed and passed for over 1,000 yards as a quarterback for Edisto High in 2000, also starring at defensive back during his career with the Cougars. Tyler was named to the Shrine Bowl and to The State’s top fifty players in the state. PrepStar rated him as the number four athlete in the Atlantic Region in the 2002 class. He picked USC over Clemson, N.C. State and Georgia Tech in July 2001. He started once as a true freshman in 2002 (vs. Vanderbilt) while also playing well against Temple (broke up two passes) and Clemson (four tackles and two passes defensed). Tyler started against Mississippi in 2003 and picked off an LSU pass at the USC 1 that year. He earned a starting spot in 2004, making eleven starts. He had a forty yard interception return against Alabama, down to the Tide eight yard line, setting up a USC TD in the 20-3 Gamecock win. Tyler also stopped a Kentucky drive at the Carolina 15 with an interception in a narrow 12-7 USC win. He won the Spring Carolina Hustle Award for the defense in the spring of 2005 and split time starting at cornerback and free safety as a senior. He had 11 tackles against Arkansas that year and recovered a fumble against Clemson. He also broke up a pass, forced a fumble and recovered a fumble against Troy. He played one season with the Columbia Stingers of the National Indoor Football League (2007) and lives in the Columbia area.

Prior Schools
School	Location
Edisto	Cordova, SC

Roster Listings
Year	Roster	Num	Pos	Ht	Wt	Yr	Gms	GS
2002	Fall 2002	23	CB	5-11	180	Fr	1	1
2003	Spring 2003	23	CB	5-11	181	So
2003	Fall 2003	23	CB	6-0	181	So
2003	Alabama-Birmingham 2003	23	CB	6-0	181	So
2003	Final 2003	23	CB	6-0	181	So	1	1
2004	Spring 2004	23	CB	6-0	181	Jr
2004	Fall 2004	23	DB	6-0	181	Jr	11	11
2005	Fall 2005	23	CB	5-10	184	Sr	8	8

Depth Chart Appearances
Description	Position	Rank
9/4/04 vs Vanderbilt	Cornerback	Starter
9/18/04 vs South Florida	Cornerback	Starter
10/9/04 vs Mississippi	Cornerback	Starter
9/2/05 vs Central Florida	Cornerback	2nd String
9/11/05 vs Georgia	Cornerback	2nd String
9/18/05 vs Alabama	Cornerback	2nd String
9/24/05 vs Troy	Cornerback	Starter
10/1/05 vs Auburn	Cornerback	Co-Starter
10/8/05 vs Kentucky	Cornerback	Starter
11/5/05 vs Arkansas	Free Safety	Starter

Honors
Award	Year
2001	Shrine Bowl
2005	Spring Carolina Hustle - Defense

Recruiting Rankings and Honors
Source	Position	Rank
PrepStar Atlantic	ATH	4
PrepStar South Carolina	ALL	11
Rivals.com	CB	46

Defense
Year	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Sacks	Int	PBU	QBH	FR	FF	BK	IP	CDS	RZS	IPP	YPT
2002	4	2	6	0.0	0.0		2	0	0	0	0	4	2	2	9.75	4.67
2003	14	4	18	0.0	0.0	1	2	0	0	0	0	5	2	1	15.89	12.71
2004	22	9	31	0.0	0.0	2	3	0	0	0	0	13	4	1	33.87	9.55
2005	36	20	56	1.0	0.0		1	1	1	2	0	16	5	2	49.65	8.09
Tot	76	35	111	1.0	0.0	3	8	1	1	2	0	38	13	6	109.16

IP - Impact Plays; CDS - Conversion Down Stops (3rd & 4th Down); RZS - Red Zone Stops; IPP - Impact Play Points; YPT - Yards Per Tackle

Penalties
Year	Penalties	Yards
2004	1	-11
2005	2	-20

Games Started
Date	Opponent	Position
2002-09-28	Vanderbilt	Cornerback
2003-11-01	Mississippi	Cornerback
2004-09-04	Vanderbilt	Cornerback
2004-09-11	Georgia	Cornerback
2004-09-18	South Florida	Cornerback
2004-09-25	Troy	Cornerback
2004-10-02	Alabama	Cornerback
2004-10-09	Mississippi	Cornerback
2004-10-16	Kentucky	Cornerback
2004-10-30	Tennessee	Cornerback
2004-11-06	Arkansas	Cornerback
2004-11-13	Florida	Cornerback
2004-11-20	Clemson	Cornerback
2005-09-24	Troy	Cornerback
2005-10-01	Auburn	Cornerback
2005-10-08	Kentucky	Cornerback
2005-10-29	Tennessee	Free Safety
2005-11-05	Arkansas	Free Safety
2005-11-12	Florida	Free Safety
2005-11-19	Clemson	Free Safety
2005-12-30	Missouri	Free Safety

Single Game Interceptions
Season	Game Date	Opponent	Int	Yds	TD	Passer
2003	2003-10-18	LSU	1	0	0	Matt Mauck
2004	2004-10-02	Alabama	1	40	0	Spencer Pennington
	2004-10-16	Kentucky	1	18	0	Jacob Tamme

Scoring Plays
Date	Opponent	Qtr	Time	USC	Opp	Play

Defense - Tackles For Loss
Year	Date	Opponent	Down	To Go	Side	Ydline	Play
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	3	5	USC	24	Felix Jones rush over right end for loss of 2 (Tremaine Tyler)

Defense - Passes Broken Up
Year	Date	Opponent	Down	To Go	Side	Ydline	Play
2002	2002-09-21	Temple	3	11	TEM	31	Mike McGann pass for Zamir Cobb (Tremaine Tyler)
2002	2002-09-21	Temple	1	10	TEM	49	Mike Frost pass for Krishan Lewis incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2002	2002-11-23	Clemson	2	8	USC	9	Charlie Whitehurst pass for J.J. McKelvey incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2002	2002-11-23	Clemson	3	5	USC	11	Charlie Whitehurst pass for Robinson incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-01	Mississippi	3	1	UMS	29	Eli Manning pass for Chris Collins incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-22	Clemson	3	9	USC	45	Charlie Whitehurst pass for Airese Currie incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-09	Mississippi	3	10	USC	29	Ethan Flatt pass for Mike Espy incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-06	Arkansas	1	10	ARK	24	Matt Jones pass for Chris Baker incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-06	Arkansas	3	8	ARK	26	Matt Jones pass for C.Washington incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-09-24	Troy	1	10	TRO	10	Carl Meadows pass for Gary Banks incomplete (Tremaine Tyler)

Defense - Interceptions
Year	Date	Opponent	Down	To Go	Side	Ydline	Play
2003	2003-10-18	LSU	1	10	USC	45	Matt Mauck pass intercepted by Tremaine Tyler at SC 1 returned 0 yards
2004	2004-10-02	Alabama	1	10	ALA	40	Spencer Pennington pass intercepted at SC 48 by Tremaine Tyler returned 40 yards (Evan Mathis)
2004	2004-10-16	Kentucky	1	10	USC	42	Jacob Tamme pass intercepted by Tremaine Tyler at SC 15, returned 18 yards + UK face mask (Matt McCutchan)

Defensive Plays
Year	Date	Opponent	Down	To Go	Side	Ydline	Play
2002	2002-09-28	Vanderbilt	3	5	USC	37	Dan Stricker, 16-yd pass from Jay Cutler (Tremaine Tyler)
2002	2002-11-23	Clemson	3	2	USC	38	Robinson, 3-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Tremaine Tyler)
2002	2002-11-23	Clemson	1	10	USC	16	J.J. McKelvey, 5-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Tremaine Tyler)
2002	2002-11-23	Clemson	1	10	USC	42	Derrick Hamilton, 11-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Jeremiah Garrison, Tremaine Tyler)
2002	2002-11-23	Clemson	1	10	CLM	43	Yusef Kelly rush for 7 (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-09-20	Alabama-Birmingham	2	10	UAB	37	Bradly Chavez, 5-yd pass from Darrell Hackney (Tremaine Tyler, Dunta Robinson)
2003	2003-10-18	LSU	2	10	LSU	48	Matt Mauck rush for 12 (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-10-18	LSU	2	7	LSU	41	Eric Edwards, 7-yd pass from Matt Mauck (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-10-18	LSU	1	10	LSU	32	Eric Edwards, 9-yd pass from Matt Mauck (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-10-18	LSU	1	10	USC	31	B.Edwards rush for 14 (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-10-25	Vanderbilt	1	10	VAN	5	Erik Davis, 11-yd pass from Jay Cutler (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-01	Mississippi	1	10	UMS	24	Bill Flowers, 9-yd pass from Eli Manning (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-01	Mississippi	1	10	UMS	49	Kerry Johnson, 31-yd pass from Eli Manning (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-01	Mississippi	2	6	USC	38	Kerry Johnson, 10-yd pass from Eli Manning (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-01	Mississippi	3	10	USC	29	Mario Hill, 22-yd pass from Eli Manning (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-15	Florida	2	4	FLA	36	O.J. Small, 10-yd pass from Chris Leak (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-15	Florida	1	15	USC	19	Ciatrick Fason rush for 5 (Corey Peoples, Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-22	Clemson	2	7	CLM	42	Curtis Baham, 17-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Tremaine Tyler)
2003	2003-11-22	Clemson	2	12	CLM	49	Charlie Whitehurst rush for 12 (Tremaine Tyler, Jermaine Harris)
2004	2004-09-04	Vanderbilt	1	10	VAN	31	Norval McKenzie, 7-yd pass from Jay Cutler (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-09-04	Vanderbilt	1	10	VAN	20	Erik Davis, 6-yd pass from Jay Cutler (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-09-04	Vanderbilt	0	0	USC	3	Team rush for 2 pt conversion failed (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-09-04	Vanderbilt	1	10	VAN	41	Chris Young, 8-yd pass from Jay Cutler (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-09-11	Georgia	2	1	UGA	29	Danny Ware rush for 11 (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-09-11	Georgia	1	10	USC	27	Fred Gibson, 7-yd pass from David Greene (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-09-11	Georgia	2	7	UGA	44	Reggie Brown, 18-yd pass from David Greene (Tremaine Tyler, Jamacia Jackson)
2004	2004-09-18	South Florida	2	10	USC	46	W.Williams, 15-yd pass from Ronnie Banks (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-09-25	Troy	2	10	USC	40	Martin Teal, 4-yd pass from Aaron Leak (Tremaine Tyler, Orus Lambert)
2004	2004-10-02	Alabama	1	20	ALA	31	D.J. Hall, 8-yd pass from Marc Guillon (Marcus Lawrence, Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-02	Alabama	2	2	ALA	41	Tim Castille rush for 40 (Ko Simpson, Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-02	Alabama	2	10	ALA	24	Ezekial Knight, 4-yd pass from Spencer Pennington (Tremaine Tyler, Marcus Lawrence)
2004	2004-10-02	Alabama	3	2	ALA	36	Tim Castille rush for 1 (Ricardo Hurley, Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-09	Mississippi	1	10	UMS	30	Mike Espy, 7-yd pass from Ethan Flatt (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-09	Mississippi	2	10	USC	18	Robert Lane rush for 13 (Ko Simpson, Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-09	Mississippi	2	9	UMS	32	Kerry Johnson, 17-yd pass from Ethan Flatt (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-09	Mississippi	1	10	UMS	46	Vashon Pearson rush for 4 (Marque Hall, Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-16	Kentucky	2	9	USC	11	Lonell Dewalt, 7-yd pass from Shane Boyd (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-10-30	Tennessee	2	9	USC	45	Bret Smith, 2-yd pass from Brent Schaeffer (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-06	Arkansas	2	2	USC	9	D.Howard rush for 2 (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-13	Florida	2	8	USC	34	Andre Caldwell, 4-yd pass from Chris Leak (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-13	Florida	1	10	USC	39	Dallas Baker, 31-yd pass from Chris Leak (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-20	Clemson	2	10	USC	30	Duane Coleman rush for 5 (Ko Simpson, Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-20	Clemson	1	10	CLM	39	Duane Coleman, 10-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-20	Clemson	2	10	USC	28	Airese Currie, 16-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-20	Clemson	3	10	USC	12	Chansi Stuckey, 8-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Tremaine Tyler)
2004	2004-11-20	Clemson	2	10		50	Reggie Meriweather rush for 2 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-09-10	Georgia	1	10	USC	31	Danny Ware rush for 16 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-09-10	Georgia	1	10	USC	15	Thomas Brown rush for 10 (Cody Wells, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-09-17	Alabama	2	5	USC	16	Tim Castille rush for 1 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-09-17	Alabama	1	10	ALA	7	Kenneth Darby rush for 6 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-09-24	Troy	1	8	USC	8	Joel Whinghter rush for no gain, fumble, forced by (Tremaine Tyler), recovered by (Chris Hampton) at SC 11
2005	2005-09-24	Troy	3	18	TRO	12	Gary Banks, 1-yd pass from Carl Meadows, fumble, forced by (Tremaine Tyler), recovered by (Dakota Walker) at TR 14
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	3	6	USC	32	Ben Obomanu, 4-yd pass from Brandon Cox (Tremaine Tyler, Ricardo Hurley)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	1	10	AUB	15	Kenny Irons rush for 4 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	1	10	AUB	45	Ben Obomanu, 19-yd pass from Brandon Cox (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	3	3	USC	29	Brandon Cox rush up the middle for 5 (Dustin Lindsey, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	2	6	USC	20	Cole Bennett, 4-yd pass from Brandon Cox (Curtis Rice, Chris Hampton, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	3	2	USC	16	Brad Lester rush up the middle for 9 (Tremaine Tyler, Ko Simpson)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	2	10	AUB	33	Devon Aromashodu, 18-yd pass from Brandon Cox (Cody Wells, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	3	2	USC	41	Courtney Taylor, 4-yd pass from Brandon Cox (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	2	10		50	Brad Lester up the middle for 2 (Cody Wells, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	3	8	USC	48	Prechae Rodriguez, 18-yd pass from Brandon Cox (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-01	Auburn	1	10	USC	23	Devin Aromshodu, 22-yd pass from Brandon Cox (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-08	Kentucky	2	6	USC	6	Rafael Little rush for 1 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-29	Tennessee	1	10	UTN	28	Arian Foster rush for 6 (Lance Laury, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-29	Tennessee	1	10	UTN	42	Robert Meachem, 5-yd pass from Erik Ainge (Johnathan Joseph, Lance Laury, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-29	Tennessee	3	8	USC	43	David Holbert, 26-yd pass from Erik Ainge (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-29	Tennessee	2	9	USC	9	Arian Foster rush for 8 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-10-29	Tennessee	1	10	USC	35	Arian Foster rush for 14 (Tremaine Tyler, Marque Hall)
2005	2005-10-29	Tennessee	3	3	UTN	27	Jayson Swain, 14-yd pass from Rick Clausen (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	1	10	ARK	20	Darren McFadden rush right for 7 (Ko Simpson, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	2	2	USC	45	Darren McFadden over left guard for 4 (Tremaine Tyler, Lance Laury)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	1	10	ARK	20	Darren McFadden rush left for 11 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	1	10	ARK	31	Darren McFadden rush left for 8 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	2	2	ARK	39	Darren McFadden rush over right guard for 7 (Chris Tucker, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	2	4	USC	48	Felix Jones rush up the middle for 8 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	2	10	USC	40	Darren McFadden rush left for 6 (Tremaine Tyler) + SC face mask (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	3	6	ARK	15	Marcus Monk, 19-yd pass from Casey Dick (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	1	10	ARK	21	Darren McFadden over right end for 9 (Fred Bennett, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-05	Arkansas	2	2	USC	42	Felix Jones over right guard for 5 (Tremaine Tyler, Marvin Sapp)
2005	2005-11-12	Florida	1	10	USC	21	C.Jackson, pass from Chris Leak for no gain (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-12	Florida	2	10	FLA	10	DeShawn Wynn rush for 19 (Tremaine Tyler, Jordin Lindsey)
2005	2005-11-12	Florida	1	10	FLA	11	DeShawn Wynn rush for 5 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-12	Florida	2	5	FLA	16	Kestahn Moore rush for 8 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-12	Florida	2	10	USC	46	DeShawn Wynn rush for 11 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-12	Florida	3	2	USC	41	DeShawn Wynn rush for 8 (Dustin Lindsey, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-12	Florida	1	10	FLA	31	J.Cornelius, 15-yd pass from Chris Leak (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	2	7	CLM	39	Chansi Stuckey pass from Charlie Whitehurst for no gain (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	1	10	CLM	30	Reggie Merriweather rush for 3 (Orus Lambert, Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	1	10	CLM	20	Reggie Merriweather rush for 3 (Tremaine Tyler, Ko Simpson)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	1	10	USC	45	James Davis rush for 11 (Tremaine Tyler, Terrell Davis)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	1	10	CLM	27	James Davis rush for 6 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	2	4	CLM	33	James Davis rush for 12 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	2	26	CLM	31	Chansi Stuckey, 14-yd pass from Charlie Whitehurst (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-11-19	Clemson	3	9		50	Charlie Whitehurst rush for 10 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-12-30	Missouri	3	2	USC	36	Chase Daniel up the middle for 1 (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-12-30	Missouri	2	19	USC	30	Martin Rucker, 7 yds on crossing pass from Brad Smith (Tremaine Tyler)
2005	2005-12-30	Missouri	4	3	USC	14	Martin Rucker, 13-yd pass from Brad Ekwereku (Terrell Davis, Tremaine Tyler)