Player Dossier

2021-2025

USC

DJ Harvey

CB • 5'10" • 190 lbs • Palmdale, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

DJ Harvey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

33%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

51

Solid production for a corner

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Reliability

42

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

67

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · San José State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Virginia Tech • San José State • USC
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon State

Player Story

DJ Harvey built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Palmdale, CA wearing No. 2, spending time with San José State, USC, and Virginia Tech. The clearest part of DJ Harvey's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8978

Sierra Canyon · Palmdale, CA

Committed To
Virginia Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

DJ Harvey, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · San José State. DJ Harvey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
101
TFL
9.5
Sacks
2
Passes defended
14
Touchdowns
3

Quick Answers

DJ Harvey quick answers

Latest team and position
USC · CB
Career Tackles
101
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 36 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · San José State
Top game
Oregon State
Recruit profile
4-star · Sierra Canyon · Virginia Tech
High school pipeline
Sierra Canyon · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 2 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
7 tackles · CB 302nd (top 64%) · Big Ten 405th (top 52%) · National 3,280th (top 53%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 PostseasonVirginia Tech12-0--042.5
2022 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech7610-109.5
2023 Regular SeasonSan José State10281.50-5022.7
2024 Regular SeasonSan José State125872-6361.9
2025 PostseasonUSC62-0-109.5
2025 Regular SeasonUSC65-0-109.5

Related Context

DJ Harvey played CB for Virginia Tech, San José State, and USC. Across 5 tracked seasons, DJ Harvey recorded 101 tackles and 3 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with San José State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

San José State paired 19 primary output with 36 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 18.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 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 Virginia Tech, San José State, USC.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Fresno State

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 · San José State

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

18.2

Usage

3

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Fresno State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Oregon State: 0. USC: 1. Cal Poly: 0. Toledo: 0. Air Force: 0. New Mexico: 0. Utah State: 1.5. Hawai'i: 2. Fresno State: 2. UNLV: 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. Oregon State: 4 by 16.7. USC: 3 by 22.5. Cal Poly: 1 by 4.2. New Mexico: 3 by 12.5. Utah State: 5 by 35.8. Hawai'i: 4 by 36.7. Fresno State: 7 by 49.2. UNLV: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.9 · Games = 6 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Fresno State

Best efficiency game

49.2 vs Fresno State

Result
Sat 11/25@ UNLVW 37-3111000
Sun 11/12vs Fresno StateSplash gameW 42-1875101
Sun 10/29@ Hawai'iSplash gameW 35-044002
Sat 10/21vs Utah StateW 42-21530.5001
Sat 10/14@ New MexicoW 52-2432000
Sat 9/23vs Air ForceL 20-45
Sat 9/16@ ToledoL 17-21
Sat 9/9vs Cal PolyW 59-311000
Sun 9/3vs Oregon StateL 17-4243000
Sun 8/27@ USCL 28-5633001

Player Story

DJ Harvey story

DJ Harvey built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Palmdale, CA wearing No. 2, spending time with San José State, USC, and Virginia Tech. The clearest part of DJ Harvey's career was his defensive production: 101 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 4 interceptions across 36 career games in the available record. His career also includes 64 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives DJ Harvey'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

    Virginia Tech

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    San José State

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    USC

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202120222023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 PostseasonVirginia Tech08.32.3
2022 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech26.41.42
2023 Regular SeasonSan José State6.518.234.5
2024 Regular SeasonSan José State19367.612.5
2025 PostseasonUSC28.21-17
2025 Regular SeasonUSC28.210

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Oregon State

Week 11 · W 24-13

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5

Havoc Plays

93.1 takeover

5 disruption/tackle impact with 93.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Nevada

Week 6 · W 35-31 · Conference game

3.5

Havoc Plays

82.2 takeover

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Colorado State

Week 7 · L 24-31 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

73.1 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 73.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Fresno State

Week 11 · W 42-18 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

71.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Stanford

Week 14 · W 34-31

2

Havoc Plays

63.1 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · San José State

19 primary output · 36 efficiency · 7.6 usage

61.9

#2

2021 Postseason · Virginia Tech

42.5

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 2.3 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · San José State

22.7

6.5 primary · 18.2 efficiency · 3 usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

8

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games