Player Dossier

2020-2025

Central Michigan

Brenden Deasfernandes

DB • 6'0" • 195 lbs • Belleville, MI, USA

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Brenden Deasfernandes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

18

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

21

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

29

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Central Michigan

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Iowa • Central Michigan
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern

Player Story

Brenden Deasfernandes built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive back from Belleville, MI wearing No. 3, spending time with Central Michigan and Iowa. The clearest part of Brenden Deasfernandes'...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8119

Belleville · Belleville, MI

Committed To
Iowa
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Brenden Deasfernandes, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Central Michigan. Brenden Deasfernandes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
41
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
9

Quick Answers

Brenden Deasfernandes quick answers

Latest team and position
Central Michigan · DB
Career Tackles
41
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 23 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Central Michigan
Top game
Northwestern
Recruit profile
3-star · Belleville · Iowa
High school pipeline
Belleville · 29 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 3 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
25 tackles · DB 365th (top 38%) · Mid-American 165th (top 29%) · National 1,676th (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonIowa00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonIowa00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonIowa00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonIowa320.50--08
2024 Regular SeasonCentral Michigan714-0-109.5
2025 PostseasonCentral Michigan132-0-4045
2025 Regular SeasonCentral Michigan1323-0-4045

Related Context

Brenden Deasfernandes played DB for Iowa and Central Michigan. Across 6 tracked seasons, Brenden Deasfernandes recorded 41 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Central Michigan.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Central Michigan paired 10 primary output with 15.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.8 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Iowa, Central Michigan.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Illinois

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 · Central Michigan

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

9.8

Usage

1.6

Consistency

4.8

Best Game by takeover score

Illinois

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Central Connecticut: 0. Florida International: 0. Illinois: 1. Ohio: 0. Bowling Green: 0. Toledo: 0. Western Michigan: 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. Central Connecticut: 1 by 4.2. Florida International: 2 by 8.3. Illinois: 1 by 14.2. Ohio: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 5 by 20.8. Toledo: 1 by 4.2. Western Michigan: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 5 · +0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Illinois

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Bowling Green

Result
Wed 11/20vs Western MichiganW 16-1431000
Wed 11/13@ ToledoL 10-3711000
Wed 11/6vs Bowling GreenL 13-2353000
Sat 10/12vs OhioL 25-2711000
Sat 9/14@ IllinoisL 9-3011001
Sat 9/7@ Florida InternationalL 16-5221000
Thu 8/29vs Central ConnecticutW 66-1011000

Player Story

Brenden Deasfernandes story

Brenden Deasfernandes built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive back from Belleville, MI wearing No. 3, spending time with Central Michigan and Iowa. The clearest part of Brenden Deasfernandes' career was his defensive production: 41 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, 2 interceptions, and 9 passes defended across 23 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Central Michigan. 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 Brenden Deasfernandes' production has multiple signals. With 23 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Central Michigan and Iowa.

The arc is straightforward: Brenden Deasfernandes 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

    Iowa

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Central Michigan

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120222023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonIowa0
2021 Regular SeasonIowa00
2022 Regular SeasonIowa00
2023 Regular SeasonIowa0.54.51.40.5
2024 Regular SeasonCentral Michigan19.81.60.5
2025 PostseasonCentral Michigan1015.75.89
2025 Regular SeasonCentral Michigan1015.75.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 51 Northwestern

Week 1 · L 7-34 · Postseason

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4

Havoc Plays

55 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 55 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 25 Michigan

Week 3 · L 3-63 · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

47.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.8 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 118 San José State

Week 1 · W 16-14

2

Havoc Plays

47.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Illinois

Week 3 · L 9-30

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Havoc Plays

40.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.6 takeover score.

#5

vs Western Michigan

Week 3 · W 41-10

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.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Central Michigan

10 primary output · 15.7 efficiency · 5.8 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Central Michigan

45

10 primary · 15.7 efficiency · 5.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Central Michigan

9.5

1 primary · 9.8 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games