Player Dossier

2017-2020

Colorado

Akil Jones

LB • 6'0" • 235 lbs • San Jose, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Akil Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

55%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

60

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

49

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · Colorado

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Colorado
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Utah

Player Story

Akil Jones built his college career from 2017 through 2020 as a linebacker from San Jose, CA wearing No. 36, spending time with Colorado. The clearest part of Akil Jones' career was his defensive production: 83...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8378

Northwestern · Miami, FL

Committed To
Western Kentucky
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Akil Jones, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · Colorado. Akil Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
83
TFL
8
QB hurries
6
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Akil Jones quick answers

Latest team and position
Colorado · LB
Career Tackles
83
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 22 games
Best season
2020 Postseason · Colorado
Top game
Utah
Recruit profile
3-star · Northwestern · Western Kentucky
High school pipeline
Northwestern · 93 FBS recruits · 10 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 36 · Senior
2020 Tackles rank
27 tackles · LB 359th (top 32%) · Pac-12 44th (top 11%) · National 933rd (top 18%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2017 Regular SeasonColorado34-0--038
2018 Regular SeasonColorado22-0--036.7
2019 Regular SeasonColorado11503031055
2020 PostseasonColorado55-01-075.6
2020 Regular SeasonColorado5225021075.6

Related Context

Akil Jones played LB for Colorado. Across 4 tracked seasons, Akil Jones recorded 83 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Colorado.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Postseason

Colorado paired 9 primary output with 40.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 40.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2020 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Utah

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Postseason · Colorado

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

1.8

Efficiency

40.5

Usage

10.7

Consistency

72.8

Best Game by takeover score

Utah

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Texas: 1. UCLA: 2. Stanford: 1. San Diego State: 2. Utah: 3

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. Texas: 5 by 30.8. UCLA: 4 by 36.7. Stanford: 5 by 30.8. San Diego State: 3 by 32.5. Utah: 10 by 71.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.7 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses2 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Utah

Best efficiency game

71.7 vs Utah

Result
Wed 12/30vs TexasL 23-5553000
Sat 12/12vs Utah10+ tackles · Splash gameL 21-38103200
Sat 11/28vs San Diego StateSplash gameW 20-1031101
Sat 11/14@ StanfordW 35-3252000
Sun 11/8vs UCLASplash gameW 48-4244200

Player Story

Akil Jones story

Akil Jones built his college career from 2017 through 2020 as a linebacker from San Jose, CA wearing No. 36, spending time with Colorado. The clearest part of Akil Jones' career was his defensive production: 83 tackles, 8 tackles for loss, and 2 passes defended across 22 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2019 with Colorado. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Akil Jones' production has multiple signals. With 22 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Colorado.

The arc is straightforward: Akil Jones moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Colorado

    2017-2020

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20172018201920202020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonColorado05.61
2018 Regular SeasonColorado04.20.70
2019 Regular SeasonColorado725.37.97
2020 PostseasonColorado940.510.72
2020 Regular SeasonColorado940.510.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Utah

Week 15 · L 21-38 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

90.6 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 90.6 takeover score.

#2

vs Arizona

Week 6 · L 30-35 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

80.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 80.3 takeover score.

#3

vs UCLA

Week 10 · W 48-42 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

67.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.2 takeover score.

#4

vs Air Force

Week 3 · L 23-30

1

Havoc Plays

60.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60.3 takeover score.

#5

vs Stanford

Week 11 · W 16-13 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

52.8 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Postseason · Colorado

9 primary output · 40.5 efficiency · 10.7 usage

75.6

#2

2020 Regular Season · Colorado

75.6

9 primary · 40.5 efficiency · 10.7 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Colorado

55

7 primary · 25.3 efficiency · 7.9 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

4

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games