Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2016-2021South Alabama
Shawn Jennings
LB • 6'1" • 235 lbs • Dadeville, AL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Shawn Jennings shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
58
Solid production for a linebacker
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Reliability
41
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
74
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · South Alabama
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 6
- Program Path
- Alabama • South Alabama
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Louisiana
Player Story
Shawn Jennings built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a linebacker from Dadeville, AL wearing No. 24, spending time with Alabama and South Alabama. The clearest part of Shawn Jennings' career was his...
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- Jan 1, 2023
Shawn Jennings, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · South Alabama. Shawn Jennings shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.1 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 61
- TFL
- 8
- Sacks
- 4.5
- QB hurries
- 3
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Shawn Jennings quick answers
- Latest team and position
- South Alabama · LB
- Career Tackles
- 61
- Tracked sample
- 6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 22 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · South Alabama
- Top game
- Louisiana
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Cathedral
- High school pipeline
- Cathedral · 31 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 24 · Senior
- 2021 Tackles rank
- 28 tackles · LB 504th (top 41%) · Sun Belt 124th (top 27%) · National 1,523rd (top 26%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Alabama | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2017 Regular Season | South Alabama | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2018 Regular Season | South Alabama | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2019 Regular Season | South Alabama | 5 | 20 | 1 | 0.5 | - | - | 0 | 20.8 |
| 2020 Regular Season | South Alabama | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 3 | - | 0 | 66.1 |
| 2021 Regular Season | South Alabama | 8 | 28 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 0 | 40.7 |
Related Context
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Shawn Jennings played LB for Alabama and South Alabama. Across 6 tracked seasons, Shawn Jennings recorded 61 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with South Alabama.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
South Alabama paired 10 primary output with 18.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 22.1 efficiency.
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Career value cooled off
2021 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Alabama, South Alabama.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2021 Regular Season · South Alabama
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
22.1
Usage
5
Consistency
38.9
Best Game by takeover score
Southern Miss
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Southern Miss: 2. Bowling Green: 0. Alcorn State: 2. Texas State: 1. Troy: 0. App State: 0. Tennessee: 1. Coastal Carolina: 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. Southern Miss: 6 by 45. Bowling Green: 2 by 8.3. Alcorn State: 1 by 24.2. Texas State: 9 by 47.5. Troy: 2 by 8.3. App State: 4 by 16.7. Tennessee: 2 by 18.3. Coastal Carolina: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.3 · Games = 3 · +0.9 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 5 · -0.9 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Southern Miss
Best efficiency game
47.5 vs Texas State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/26 | vs Coastal Carolina | L 21-27 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/21 | @ Tennessee | L 14-60 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/13 | @ App State | L 7-31 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/6 | @ Troy | L 24-31 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/9 | @ Texas State | L 31-33 | 9 | 3 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/19 | vs Alcorn StateSplash game | W 28-21 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/11 | @ Bowling Green | W 22-19 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/5 | vs Southern MissSplash game | W 31-7 | 6 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Shawn Jennings story
Shawn Jennings built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a linebacker from Dadeville, AL wearing No. 24, spending time with Alabama and South Alabama. The clearest part of Shawn Jennings' career was his defensive production: 61 tackles, 8 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, and 1 interception across 22 career games in the available record. That gives Shawn Jennings' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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Alabama
2016
Opening stop
- 2
South Alabama
2017-2021
Final stop
Season Value Progression
201620172018201920202021
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Alabama | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2017 Regular Season | South Alabama | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2018 Regular Season | South Alabama | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2019 Regular Season | South Alabama | 1.5 | 19.7 | 4.2 | 1.5 |
| 2020 Regular Season | South Alabama | 10 | 18.3 | 11.3 | 8.5 |
| 2021 Regular Season | South Alabama | 6 | 22.1 | 5 | -4 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Louisiana
Week 11 · L 10-38 · Conference game
Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4
Havoc Plays
82.8 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 82.8 takeover score.
#2
vs Southern Miss
Week 1 · W 31-7
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Havoc Plays
81.7 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.
#3
vs Alcorn State
Week 3 · W 28-21
2
Havoc Plays
60.6 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.
#4
vs UL Monroe
Week 8 · W 38-14 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
59.4 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 59.4 takeover score.
#5
@ Georgia State
Week 13 · L 15-28 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
55.8 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.8 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2020 Regular Season · South Alabama
10 primary output · 18.3 efficiency · 11.3 usage
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#2
2021 Regular Season · South Alabama
40.7
6 primary · 22.1 efficiency · 5 usage
#3
2019 Regular Season · South Alabama
20.8
1.5 primary · 19.7 efficiency · 4.2 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
4
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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