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.
Prior Schools
SchoolLocation
Edisto Cordova, SC


Roster Listings
YearRosterNumPosHtWtYrGmsGS
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
DescriptionPositionRank
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
AwardYear
2001 Shrine Bowl
2005 Spring Carolina Hustle - Defense
Recruiting Rankings and Honors
SourcePositionRank
PrepStar Atlantic ATH 4
PrepStar South Carolina ALL 11
Rivals.com CB 46
Defense
YearSoloAstTklTFLSacksIntPBUQBHFRFFBKIPCDSRZSIPPYPT
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
YearPenaltiesYards
2004 1 -11
2005 2 -20
Games Started
DateOpponentPosition
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
SeasonGame DateOpponentIntYdsTDPasser
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
DateOpponentQtrTimeUSCOppPlay
Defense - Tackles For Loss
YearDateOpponentDownTo GoSideYdlinePlay
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
YearDateOpponentDownTo GoSideYdlinePlay
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
YearDateOpponentDownTo GoSideYdlinePlay
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
YearDateOpponentDownTo GoSideYdlinePlay
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)