Player Dossier

2014-2017

UConn

Anthony Watkins

DB • 5'10" • 197 lbs • Fort Meade, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Anthony Watkins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

22%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

47

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

41

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

55

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · UConn

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
UConn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Holy Cross

Player Story

Anthony Watkins built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a defensive back from Fort Meade, MD wearing No. 29, spending time with UConn. The clearest part of Anthony Watkins' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.7783

The Lawrenceville School · Lawrenceville, NJ

Committed To
UConn
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Anthony Watkins, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · UConn. Anthony Watkins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
54
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Anthony Watkins quick answers

Latest team and position
UConn · DB
Career Tackles
54
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 11 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · UConn
Top game
Holy Cross
Recruit profile
2-star · The Lawrenceville School · UConn
High school pipeline
The Lawrenceville School · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 29 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
33 tackles · DB 274th (top 35%) · American Athletic 113th (top 21%) · National 1,255th (top 22%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonUConn00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonUConn00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonUConn421-0-1032.6
2017 Regular SeasonUConn6330.50-1042.8

Related Context

Anthony Watkins played DB for UConn. Across 4 tracked seasons, Anthony Watkins recorded 54 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with UConn.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

UConn paired 1.5 primary output with 25.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 25.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2017 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Holy Cross

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2017 Regular Season · UConn

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

25.4

Usage

4.1

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Holy Cross

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Holy Cross: 1. Virginia: 0. Memphis: 0.5. Missouri: 0. UCF: 0. Boston College: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Holy Cross: 8 by 43.3. Virginia: 2 by 8.3. Memphis: 12 by 55. Missouri: 1 by 4.2. UCF: 4 by 16.7. Boston College: 6 by 25

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins1 · Games = 1 · +0.9 vs Losses
Losses0.1 · Games = 5 · -0.9 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Holy Cross

Best efficiency game

55 vs Memphis

Result
Sun 11/19vs Boston CollegeL 16-3964000
Sat 11/11@ UCFL 24-4944000
Sat 10/28vs MissouriL 12-5210000
Fri 10/6vs Memphis10+ tacklesL 31-701260.5000
Sat 9/16@ VirginiaL 18-3821000
Thu 8/31vs Holy CrossW 27-2086001

Player Story

Anthony Watkins story

Anthony Watkins built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a defensive back from Fort Meade, MD wearing No. 29, spending time with UConn. The clearest part of Anthony Watkins' career was his defensive production: 54 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, and 2 passes defended across 11 career games in the available record. That gives Anthony Watkins' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    UConn

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonUConn0
2015 Regular SeasonUConn00
2016 Regular SeasonUConn124.43.71
2017 Regular SeasonUConn1.525.44.10.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Holy Cross

Week 1 · W 27-20

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

64.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Memphis

Week 6 · L 31-70 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#3

@ Navy

Week 2 · L 24-28 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

48.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Houston

Week 5 · L 14-42 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

28.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 28.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Virginia

Week 3 · W 13-10

0

Havoc Plays

21.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · UConn

1.5 primary output · 25.4 efficiency · 4.1 usage

42.8

#2

2016 Regular Season · UConn

32.6

1 primary · 24.4 efficiency · 3.7 usage

#3

2014 Regular Season · UConn

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

0

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games