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2023 Football Roster

20 Chase Atkinson

  • Position NICKEL
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 195
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Columbia, S.C.
  • High School Blythewood HS
  • Prev School Syracuse

Biography

2023 (Redshirt junior)
  • Saw action in seven games on the season 
  • Recorded a solo tackle against Georgia Southern (Sept. 30)
2022 (Redshirt Sophomore)
  • Saw action in nine games on the season on special teams
  • Had to move from safety to cornerback for the 2022 TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl versus East Carolina (Dec. 27) due to a lack of depth at the position for the postseason game
  • Had one assisted tackle on special teams versus Buffalo (Sept. 17)
  • Added one solo tackle in the bowl game against East Carolina
  • Also saw the field in home games versus Gardner-Webb (Sept. 10), Old Dominion (Oct. 15), Appalachian State (Nov. 3), and Southern Miss (Nov. 12)
  • Played for the Chants in road games at ULM (Oct. 8), James Madison (Nov. 26), and at the 2022 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Conference Football Championship game at Troy (Dec. 3)
  • Participated in 2022 spring practice
  • Enrolled at Coastal Carolina in January 2022


Prior to Coastal Carolina
 
2021 (Redshirt Freshman) at Syracuse
  • Did not see any game action on the year
 
2020 (Freshman) at Syracuse
  • Redshirt season
  • Did not appear in any games
 
High School
  • Rated the No. 37 prospect in South Carolina and 136th among safeties by 247Sports.com
  • Ranked the 40th-best player in the state and the No. 122 safety in the Class of 2020 by ESPN
  • Named to the 2019 SCVarsity.com All-State second team despite missing most of his senior year due to injury
  • Tabbed a PrepStar All-Atlantic Region honoree
  • A two-time South Carolina All-Midlands Region selection
  • Voted the No. 3 defensive back in the region by SCVarsity.com’s Jim Baxter
  • A member of The State’s 2019 “Super 60”
  • Played cornerback and safety for head coach Jason Seidel at Blythewood High School
  • A two-year captain for the football team
  • Tallied 24 tackles, eight pass breakups, and two interceptions during his junior season, returning one for a touchdown
  • Logged 32 tackles and one forced fumble as a sophomore
  • Also lettered in track & field, where he was a sprinter

Statistics

Season:
2023

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Historical Player Information

  • 20

    2022Redshirt Sophomore

    S
    6'0" 190 lbs
    20
  • 20

    2023Redshirt Junior

    NICKEL
    6'0" 195 lbs
    20