Timothy "Tim" Riggins is a character in the American sports drama Friday Night Lights, portrayed by actor Taylor Kitsch.
Tim Riggins is the fullback/running back of the Dillon Panthers, a high school team in a small Texas town in the television series.
Despite their seemingly immature behavior and Tim's stoic and uncaring facade, the brothers are shown to be caring and loyal to each other in times of crisis.
Tim is depicted as a womanizer sleeping with numerous women from his high school, including half of the rally girls, and even some of the female booster club members think he is hot.
Despite his laissez-faire attitude, he is extremely loyal to his teammates when the occasion demands, as shown when he physically hits an opposition player who verbally provokes his black teammate, Smash Williams,[6] and puts his Panthers career on the line to follow best friend, Jason Street, to Mexico to talk him out of a potentially life-threatening situation.
In season 1, Coach Taylor's wife discovers that Tim has been struggling academically and had been asking his schoolmates (especially the rally girls) to do his assignments for him.
After Lyla calls off their affair, Tim goes on to stand by her and encourage her to stay with cheerleading even after their relationship is discovered and she becomes a social outcast.
Tim also reunites with his absentee father this season, tracking him down after receiving a traffic ticket that may result in the loss of his license without a parent's signature.
He then travels to Mexico with Jason to support him while he undergoes an experimental surgery involving shark's blood and stem cells.
[8] He later accompanies Jason to New York City where he helps him get a job as a sports agent and reunite with the mother of his child.
Tim is then pursued by the fictional San Antonio State, and signs with them, becoming the first member of the Riggins family to attend college.
Upon graduation from high school, Tim attends the fictional San Antonio State University, for a short time where he plays football before dropping out, realizing that it was never part of his plans.
After a one-night stand with a bartender, Cheryl (Alicia Witt), he moves into a trailer on her property where he frequently finds himself entangled with her teenager daughter, Becky.
One notable moment was when Tim and Billy were helping the Lions with a newly developed play by attending a practice in full pads.
After Tim discovers Billy's secret operation, he supports it all the way, so he can make enough money to buy a plot of land he had set his eyes on.
In the season four finale, "Thanksgiving," Tim realizes that his brother needs to stay and provide for his family and turns himself in to the sheriff's office and takes full responsibility for the chop shop, since he agreed to it all.
According to Tobias, "he gives you the poses of a hunky, smoldering, haunted young man, but rarely the three-dimensional, flesh-and-bone reality of it.