Player Dossier

2018-2022

West Virginia

Rashad Ajayi

CB • 5'11" • 182 lbs • Fairburn, GA, USA

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Rashad Ajayi shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

23%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

23

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

39

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Colorado State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Colorado State • West Virginia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida

Player Story

Rashad Ajayi built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a cornerback from Fairburn, GA wearing No. 4, spending time with Colorado State and West Virginia. The clearest part of Rashad Ajayi's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.8054

Langston Hughes · Fairburn, GA

Committed To
Colorado State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

Rashad Ajayi, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Colorado State. Rashad Ajayi shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
102
TFL
5.5
Sacks
1
Passes defended
19
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Rashad Ajayi quick answers

Latest team and position
West Virginia · CB
Career Tackles
102
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 45 games
Best season
2018 Regular Season · Colorado State
Top game
Florida
Recruit profile
3-star · Langston Hughes · Colorado State
High school pipeline
Langston Hughes · 36 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 4 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
26 tackles · CB 122nd (top 32%) · Big 12 115th (top 26%) · National 1,564th (top 27%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonColorado State123321-6248.5
2019 Regular SeasonColorado State68-0-3024.7
2020 Regular SeasonColorado State4710-1024.3
2021 Regular SeasonColorado State12282.50-6043.5
2022 Regular SeasonWest Virginia1126-0-3016.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2022Colorado State to West VirginiaG5/FCS to P421.2Apr 29, 2022

Rashad Ajayi played CB for Colorado State and West Virginia. Across 5 tracked seasons, Rashad Ajayi recorded -7 passing yards, -1 rushing yards, and 102 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with Colorado State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season

Colorado State paired 10 primary output with 19.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2022 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 Colorado State, West Virginia.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Baylor

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

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Season Workbench

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2022 Regular Season · West Virginia

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

12.6

Usage

1.9

Consistency

9.1

Best Game by takeover score

Baylor

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Pittsburgh: 1. Kansas: 0. Towson: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. Texas: 0. Baylor: 1. Texas Tech: 0. Iowa State: 1. Oklahoma: 0. Kansas State: 0. Oklahoma 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. Pittsburgh: 2 by 18.3. Kansas: 6 by 25. Towson: 1 by 4.2. Virginia Tech: 2 by 8.3. Texas: 1 by 4.2. Baylor: 4 by 26.7. Texas Tech: 1 by 4.2. Iowa State: 3 by 22.5. Oklahoma: 4 by 16.7. Kansas State: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma 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.

Wins0.2 · Games = 5 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 6 · +0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Baylor

Best efficiency game

26.7 vs Baylor

Result
Sat 11/26@ Oklahoma StateW 24-1910000
Sat 11/19vs Kansas StateL 31-4811000
Sat 11/12vs OklahomaW 23-2044000
Sat 11/5@ Iowa StateL 14-3132001
Sat 10/22@ Texas TechL 10-4811000
Thu 10/13vs BaylorW 43-4043001
Sat 10/1@ TexasL 20-3811000
Thu 9/22@ Virginia TechW 33-1022000
Sat 9/17vs TowsonW 65-711000
Sat 9/10vs KansasL 42-5564000
Thu 9/1@ PittsburghL 31-3822001

Player Story

Rashad Ajayi story

Rashad Ajayi built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a cornerback from Fairburn, GA wearing No. 4, spending time with Colorado State and West Virginia. The clearest part of Rashad Ajayi's career was his defensive production: 102 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 interception across 45 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2018 with Colorado State. 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 Rashad Ajayi's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 14 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 45 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Colorado State and West Virginia.

The arc is straightforward: Rashad Ajayi 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

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

  1. 1

    Colorado State

    2018-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    West Virginia

    2022

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20182019202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonColorado State1019.84.5
2019 Regular SeasonColorado State310.61-7
2020 Regular SeasonColorado State212.31.8-1
2021 Regular SeasonColorado State8.516.82.76.5
2022 Regular SeasonWest Virginia312.61.9-5.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Florida

Week 3 · L 10-48

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Illinois State

Week 4 · L 19-35

3

Havoc Plays

55.8 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 55.8 takeover score.

#3

@ Toledo

Week 3 · W 22-6

2

Havoc Plays

53.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 53.9 takeover score.

#4

@ Utah State

Week 8 · L 24-26 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

52.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 52.5 takeover score.

#5

@ San Diego State

Week 14 · L 17-29 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

51.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2018 Regular Season · Colorado State

10 primary output · 19.8 efficiency · 4.5 usage

48.5

#2

2021 Regular Season · Colorado State

43.5

8.5 primary · 16.8 efficiency · 2.7 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Colorado State

24.7

3 primary · 10.6 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

5

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games