Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason
Texas Tech paired 11 primary output with 17.8 efficiency.
Player Stats
A.J. McCarty College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 88
- TFL
- 9.5
- Sacks
- 0.5
- QB hurries
- 1
- Passes defended
- 7
- Touchdowns
- 4
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Baylor | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.7 |
| 2021 Postseason | Baylor | 5 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 6.2 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Baylor | 5 | 2 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 6.2 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Baylor | 10 | 34 | - | 0 | - | 3 | 2 | 22.8 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Postseason | Texas Tech | 13 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 57.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 13 | 28 | 6 | 0.5 | - | 2 | 2 | 57.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 8 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 34.6 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 17.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 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 Baylor, Texas Tech.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Regular Season · Texas Tech
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
17.2
Usage
3.9
Consistency
43.3
Best Game by takeover score
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 2. Kent State: 1. Oregon State: 0. Houston: 0. Kansas: 1. Oklahoma State: 0. UCF: 1. West Virginia: 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. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 2 by 28.3. Kent State: 4 by 26.7. Oregon State: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 4 by 16.7. Kansas: 3 by 22.5. Oklahoma State: 3 by 12.5. UCF: 2 by 18.3. West Virginia: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 4 · -0.3 vs First Half
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