2024: Third-Team All-Sun Belt Conference ... Started all 12 games at defensive end ... Registered a career-high 45 tackles, 5.5 sacks and 10.5 tackles for loss ... Led the team and finished eighth in the Sun Belt in sacks ... Had three pass breakups, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery ... Had one tackle in the opner at SC ... Tied his career-high with eight tackles and a tackle for loss against ECU ... Had five tackles against VT ... Recorded six tackles, one sack and 2.5 tackles for loss in the win at Bowling Green ... Had four tackles and half a sack at CCU ... Totaled two tackles and a sack in the win at Georgia State ... Had five tackles, half a sack and a TFL against JMU ... Registered three tackles and half a sack against MU ... Totaled six tackles and two sacks in the season finale win at Arkansas State.
2023: Appeared in all 13 games, making eight starts at defensive end ... Notched 36 tackles, two sacks and three tackles for loss ... Had three tackles in the season-opener at Virginia Tech ... Registered three tackles and a sack against Wake Forest ... Totaled seven tackles in the win at Southern Miss ... Had a sack in the win over App State ... Recorded a career-best eight tackles and half a tackle for loss in the bowl-clinching win over Georgia State.
2022: Played in all 12 games, starting three at defensive end ... Registered 21 tackles, 3.5 sacks and four tackles for loss ... Had four tackles and his first career sack in the win over Arkansas State ... Recorded four tackles and a sack at Georgia State ... Had a season-high five tackles and a sack against Marshall.
2021: Redshirted ... Did not play.
HIGH SCHOOL: Recorded 38 tackles, 5.5 sacks and two fumble recoveries as a junior … Won the Lloyd C. Bird Dutchman Award ... Also played basketball for Lloyd C. Bird.
PERSONAL: Son of Latoya Trusell ... Full name is Kristopher Eliseo Trinidad ... Two brothers, Naseric Copeland and Jaden Isacc, and two sisters, Novel West and Kendel Trinidad ... Majoring in leadership.
KRIS TRINIDAD CAREER STATS
| Year | Games | UT | AT | TOTAL | TFL | Sacks | INT | FF | FR | PBU |
| 2022 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 4-20 | 3.5-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 13 | 11 | 25 | 36 | 3-10 | 2-9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 12 | 15 | 30 | 45 | 10.5-40 | 5.5-32 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 37 | 34 | 68 | 102 | 17.5-70 | 11.0-61 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |