Is this a tick?
 

Found it walking across a table. Soft body

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1715824220.jpg
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Sorry about the poor quality photos

Yes...if it has a hard back shell.
I was weed-whipping last week, wearing shorts. The next day I felt something on the calf of my leg and thought it was a blood scab. I saw it was a smooth shell and got my fingernail under it and it was moving all it's legs. I pried it off and the head came with it.

I guess it is a hard back but doesn't look smooth.

It was on the coffee table in front of a the couch. It was dark in the room and I smacked it. I've seen ticks before but never one with those markings. I am partially color blind and don't want to alarm my wife. Can someone tell me what color it is? (the paper it was on is white so the color may be off)

Do you have pets? I’m wondering how it got in the house.

The one I had on my leg was very smooth backed and dark dark red. (like blood) Yours might be a diff variant, but it sure looks like a tick to me.

Its a tick for sure.

Step on it. If blood goes everywhere it was a tick. If not say you're sorry

Doesn't look like a tick to me. Also, ticks have eight legs like spiders. Count em.

Doesn't look like a tick to me either. What it does look like to me, is not good.

https://ticksafety.com/about-ticks/tick-lookalikes/

I read to title as "trick" not tick, thinking another scam thread.

Yes it looks like a tick.

That thing has antenna coming out of its head and the side view has a flat belly with an arched back. This is a beetle. Look up some pics of ticks…

Bed Bug?

Kinda looks like one.

https://static.scientificamerican.co...rce.jpg?w=1200

Louse

Too big to be a louse or bed bug (about 6 mm), poke the underside and blood comes out.
The weird thing is it was just crawling on the den table last night in a dimly lit room.
I haven't seen any bullseye rashes that indicate I was bit but I would have thought it would have stuck to me since a tick will stick and plump up.

So yeah it looks like that but a the one I found has strange colors.
Is the one you show a tick?

I don't think that's a tick.

"what kind of ticks are in Tennessee"
https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/vector-borne-diseases/tick-borne-diseases/ticks-in-tennessee.html

https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health...6255220975.jpghttps://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health...6255241395.jpg
https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health...6255262176.jpghttps://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health...6255276883.jpg
https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health...6255290806.jpghttps://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health...6255302270.jpg

It's hard to tell from your photo, but that doesn't look like any tick that I've ever seen. The legs look more insect-like than tick like to me. And I've never seen one with the "accordion" looking abdomen. Roaches (and presumably other insects) have abdomen like that, but I've never seen a tick like that.

Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Pentatomidae-Podisus maculiventris-Spined Soldier Bug NYMPH
https://elp.tamu.edu/ipm/bugs/family-pentatomidae-stink-bugs/hemiptera-heteroptera-pentatomidae-podisus-maculiventris-spined-soldier-bug-nymph-a/
https://elp.tamu.edu/files/2020/08/H...ug-NYMPH-A.jpg

OK, more closely looking:
The top is more smooth and not have ridges running across the entire body -more like a tick. Also doesn't have a distinct head like the one in masraum's pic.
That said, the legs and antenna don't look like a tick.