Player Dossier

2019-2024

UConn

Jayden Simon

DL • 6'3" • 315 lbs • Tacoma, WA, USA

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Jayden Simon shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

15%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

36

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Tulsa

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Colorado • Tulsa • UConn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Maryland

Player Story

Jayden Simon built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Tacoma, WA wearing No. 99, spending time with Colorado, Tulsa, and UConn. The clearest part of Jayden Simon's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.8304

Lincoln · Tacoma, WA

Committed To
Colorado
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Jayden Simon, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Tulsa. Jayden Simon shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
59
TFL
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Jayden Simon quick answers

Latest team and position
UConn · DL
Career Tackles
59
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 26 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Tulsa
Top game
Maryland
Recruit profile
3-star · Lincoln · Colorado
High school pipeline
Lincoln · 9 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 99 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
23 tackles · DL 279th (top 28%) · FBS Independents 48th (top 33%) · National 1,797th (top 30%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonColorado00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonColorado00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonColorado34-0--038.3
2022 Regular SeasonTulsa822-0--042.9
2023 Regular SeasonTulsa6100.50-1032.9
2024 Regular SeasonUConn9231.50--035.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Tulsa to UConnG5/FCS to G5/FCS79.3Nov 29, 2023
2022Colorado to TulsaP4 to G5/FCS78.6Dec 6, 2021

Jayden Simon played DL for Colorado, Tulsa, and UConn. Across 6 tracked seasons, Jayden Simon recorded 59 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UConn.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Tulsa paired 0 primary output with 11.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2024 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Colorado, Tulsa, UConn.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Maryland

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

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2024 Regular Season · UConn

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

12.3

Usage

2.8

Consistency

7.4

Best Game by takeover score

Maryland

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Maryland: 1. Merrimack: 0. Duke: 0. Florida Atlantic: 0. Buffalo: 0. Temple: 0.5. Wake Forest: 0. Syracuse: 0. Massachusetts: 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. Maryland: 2 by 18.3. Merrimack: 4 by 16.7. Duke: 2 by 8.3. Florida Atlantic: 5 by 20.8. Buffalo: 2 by 8.3. Temple: 2 by 13.3. Wake Forest: 3 by 12.5. Syracuse: 2 by 8.3. Massachusetts: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.1 · Games = 5 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Maryland

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Florida Atlantic

Result
Sat 11/30@ MassachusettsW 47-4210000
Sat 11/23@ SyracuseL 24-3121000
Sat 10/19vs Wake ForestL 20-2330000
Sat 10/5vs TempleW 29-20200.5000
Sat 9/28vs BuffaloW 47-320000
Sat 9/21vs Florida AtlanticW 48-1450000
Sat 9/14@ DukeL 21-2620000
Sat 9/7vs MerrimackW 63-1743000
Sat 8/31@ MarylandL 7-5021100

Player Story

Jayden Simon story

Jayden Simon built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Tacoma, WA wearing No. 99, spending time with Colorado, Tulsa, and UConn. The clearest part of Jayden Simon's career was his defensive production: 59 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 1 pass defended across 26 career games in the available record. That gives Jayden Simon'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

    Colorado

    2019-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Tulsa

    2022-2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    UConn

    2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonColorado0
2020 Regular SeasonColorado00
2021 Regular SeasonColorado05.61.10
2022 Regular SeasonTulsa011.52.10
2023 Regular SeasonTulsa1.59.51.31.5
2024 Regular SeasonUConn1.512.32.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Maryland

Week 1 · L 7-50

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

58.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Week 1 · W 42-7

0.5

Havoc Plays

37.8 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 37.8 takeover score.

#3

@ Tulane

Week 11 · L 22-24 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Temple

Week 6 · W 29-20

0.5

Havoc Plays

29.2 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 29.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Florida Atlantic

Week 4 · W 48-14

0

Havoc Plays

22.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 22.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Tulsa

0 primary output · 11.5 efficiency · 2.1 usage

42.9

#2

2021 Regular Season · Colorado

38.3

0 primary · 5.6 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · UConn

35.7

1.5 primary · 12.3 efficiency · 2.8 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games