Player Dossier

2020-2024

Auburn

Jayson Jones

DL • 6'6" • 355 lbs • Calera, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jayson Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

11

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

27

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Auburn

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Oregon • Auburn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Washington State

Player Story

Jayson Jones built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Calera, AL wearing No. 99, spending time with Auburn and Oregon. The clearest part of Jayson Jones' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8206

Longview · Longview, TX

Committed To
North Texas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Jayson Jones, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Auburn. Jayson Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
82
TFL
2.5
Sacks
1.5
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Jayson Jones quick answers

Latest team and position
Auburn · DL
Career Tackles
82
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 43 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Auburn
Top game
Washington State
Recruit profile
3-star · Longview · North Texas
High school pipeline
Longview · 32 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 99 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
16 tackles · DL 435th (top 43%) · SEC 294th (top 40%) · National 2,330th (top 39%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonOregon00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonOregon10191.51.5--026.4
2022 Regular SeasonAuburn12280.501-017.9
2023 PostseasonAuburn131-01-035.4
2023 Regular SeasonAuburn13180.5021035.4
2024 Regular SeasonAuburn816-0--040.4

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2022Oregon to AuburnP4 to P483.5Dec 15, 2021

Jayson Jones played DL for Oregon and Auburn. Across 5 tracked seasons, Jayson Jones recorded 82 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Auburn.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Auburn paired 0 primary output with 8.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Oregon, Auburn.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Auburn

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

8.4

Usage

1.6

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas: 0. Oklahoma: 0. Missouri: 0. Kentucky: 0. Vanderbilt: 0. UL Monroe: 0. Texas A&M: 0. Alabama: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Arkansas: 5 by 20.8. Oklahoma: 1 by 4.2. Missouri: 2 by 8.3. Kentucky: 1 by 4.2. Vanderbilt: 1 by 4.2. UL Monroe: 1 by 4.2. Texas A&M: 1 by 4.2. Alabama: 4 by 16.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 5 · +0 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

Arkansas

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Arkansas

Result
Sat 11/30@ AlabamaL 14-2841000
Sun 11/24vs Texas A&MW 43-4110000
Sat 11/16vs UL MonroeW 48-1411000
Sat 11/2vs VanderbiltL 7-1711000
Sat 10/26@ KentuckyW 24-1011000
Sat 10/19@ MissouriL 17-2121000
Sat 9/28vs OklahomaL 21-2711000
Sat 9/21vs ArkansasL 14-2453000

Player Story

Jayson Jones story

Jayson Jones built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Calera, AL wearing No. 99, spending time with Auburn and Oregon. The clearest part of Jayson Jones' career was his defensive production: 82 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 43 career games in the available record. That gives Jayson Jones' 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

    Oregon

    2020-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Auburn

    2022-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonOregon0
2021 Regular SeasonOregon310.92.53
2022 Regular SeasonAuburn1.5112.6-1.5
2023 PostseasonAuburn4.59.62.33
2023 Regular SeasonAuburn4.59.62.30
2024 Regular SeasonAuburn08.41.6-4.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Washington State

Week 11 · W 38-24 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

69.4 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.4 takeover score.

#2

@ Maryland

Week 1 · L 13-31 · Postseason

1

Havoc Plays

53.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.1 takeover score.

#3

vs San José State

Week 2 · W 24-16

1

Havoc Plays

49.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Massachusetts

Week 1 · W 59-14

1

Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Ole Miss

Week 8 · L 21-28 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

47.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Auburn

0 primary output · 8.4 efficiency · 1.6 usage

40.4

#2

2023 Postseason · Auburn

35.4

4.5 primary · 9.6 efficiency · 2.3 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Auburn

35.4

4.5 primary · 9.6 efficiency · 2.3 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games