Player Dossier

2018-2023

Ole Miss

Teja Young

S • 5'11" • 195 lbs • West Palm Beach, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Teja Young shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

21

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

20

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

37

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Florida Atlantic • Ole Miss
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Marshall

Player Story

Teja Young built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a safety from West Palm Beach, FL wearing No. 16, spending time with Florida Atlantic and Ole Miss. The clearest part of Teja Young's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.8256

Palm Beach Lakes · West Palm Beach, FL

Committed To
Florida Atlantic
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

Teja Young, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic. Teja Young shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
171
TFL
1
QB hurries
3
Passes defended
16
Touchdowns
8

Quick Answers

Teja Young quick answers

Latest team and position
Ole Miss · S
Career Tackles
171
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 49 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic
Top game
Marshall
Recruit profile
3-star · Palm Beach Lakes · Florida Atlantic
High school pipeline
Palm Beach Lakes · 15 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 16 · Senior
2023 Tackles rank
12 tackles · S 307th (top 58%) · SEC 290th (top 48%) · National 2,663rd (top 45%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic23-0--037.5
2019 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic9150.5011015.6
2020 PostseasonFlorida Atlantic94-0--029.4
2020 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic932-011029.4
2021 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic12580.5015458.4
2022 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic1047-0-7455.4
2023 Regular SeasonOle Miss712-0-2011.3

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023Florida Atlantic to Ole MissG5/FCS to P478.7May 24, 2023

Teja Young played S for Florida Atlantic and Ole Miss. Across 6 tracked seasons, Teja Young recorded 171 tackles and 8 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Florida Atlantic.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Florida Atlantic paired 9.5 primary output with 28.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2023 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 Florida Atlantic, Ole Miss.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · Ole Miss

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

10

Usage

1.1

Consistency

4.8

Best Game by takeover score

Vanderbilt

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Mercer: 0. Tulane: 0. Georgia Tech: 0. Vanderbilt: 2. Texas A&M: 0. UL Monroe: 0. Mississippi State: 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. Mercer: 1 by 4.2. Tulane: 5 by 20.8. Georgia Tech: 2 by 8.3. Vanderbilt: 1 by 24.2. Texas A&M: 1 by 4.2. UL Monroe: 1 by 4.2. Mississippi State: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.5 · Games = 4 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Vanderbilt

Best efficiency game

24.2 vs Vanderbilt

Result
Fri 11/24@ Mississippi StateW 17-710000
Sat 11/18vs UL MonroeW 35-310000
Sat 11/4vs Texas A&MW 38-3511000
Sat 10/28vs VanderbiltSplash gameW 33-710002
Sat 9/16vs Georgia TechW 48-2322000
Sat 9/9@ TulaneW 37-2053000
Sat 9/2vs MercerW 73-710000

Player Story

Teja Young story

Teja Young built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a safety from West Palm Beach, FL wearing No. 16, spending time with Florida Atlantic and Ole Miss. The clearest part of Teja Young's career was his defensive production: 171 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 7 interceptions, and 16 passes defended across 49 career games in the available record. That gives Teja Young's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Florida Atlantic

    2018-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Ole Miss

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2018201920202020202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic06.30.8
2019 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic2.59.71.82.5
2020 PostseasonFlorida Atlantic421.15.21.5
2020 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic421.15.20
2021 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic9.528.16.15.5
2022 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic928.65.4-0.5
2023 Regular SeasonOle Miss2101.1-7

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Marshall

Week 8 · L 9-20 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

77.5 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.

#2

@ Florida

Week 1 · L 14-35

1.5

Havoc Plays

77.2 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.2 takeover score.

#3

vs Rice

Week 7 · W 17-14 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

63.3 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 63.3 takeover score.

#4

@ North Texas

Week 5 · L 28-45 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

63 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 63 takeover score.

#5

@ Charlotte

Week 8 · W 38-9 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

58.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 58.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

9.5 primary output · 28.1 efficiency · 6.1 usage

58.4

#2

2022 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

55.4

9 primary · 28.6 efficiency · 5.4 usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

37.5

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

6

Splash games

3

10+ tackle games