Player Dossier

2019-2024

Virginia

Dorian Jones

LB • 6'0" • 241 lbs • Plantation, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Dorian Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

17%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

37

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

50

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Louisville • Cincinnati • Virginia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: NC State

Player Story

Dorian Jones built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a linebacker from Plantation, FL wearing No. 44, spending time with Cincinnati, Louisville, and Virginia. The clearest part of Dorian Jones' career was...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8533

Hillsborough · Tampa, FL

Committed To
Virginia
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Dorian Jones, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati. Dorian Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
161
TFL
14
Sacks
4
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Dorian Jones quick answers

Latest team and position
Virginia · LB
Career Tackles
161
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 42 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati
Top game
NC State
Recruit profile
3-star · Hillsborough · Virginia
High school pipeline
Hillsborough · 26 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
18 tackles · LB 598th (top 49%) · ACC 275th (top 36%) · National 2,176th (top 36%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonLouisville00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonLouisville46-0--038.3
2021 PostseasonLouisville115-01-052.6
2021 Regular SeasonLouisville1143412-052.6
2022 Regular SeasonLouisville10336.52--054.1
2023 Regular SeasonCincinnati11562.5112055.5
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia6181011022.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Cincinnati to VirginiaP4 to P479.1Apr 18, 2024
2023Louisville to CincinnatiP4 to P479.8Dec 12, 2022

Dorian Jones played LB for Louisville, Cincinnati, and Virginia. Across 6 tracked seasons, Dorian Jones recorded 161 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Cincinnati.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Cincinnati paired 7.5 primary output with 27.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 17.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Louisville, Cincinnati, Virginia.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Virginia

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

17.5

Usage

3.2

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Richmond: 0. North Carolina: 0. Pittsburgh: 2. Notre Dame: 1. SMU: 0. Virginia Tech: 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. Richmond: 2 by 8.3. North Carolina: 2 by 8.3. Pittsburgh: 4 by 36.7. Notre Dame: 4 by 26.7. SMU: 5 by 20.8. Virginia Tech: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 2 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs Pittsburgh

Result
Sun 12/1@ Virginia TechL 17-3710000
Sat 11/23vs SMUL 7-3353000
Sat 11/16@ Notre DameL 14-3543001
Sun 11/10@ PittsburghSplash gameW 24-1943100
Sat 10/26vs North CarolinaL 14-4122000
Sat 8/31vs RichmondW 34-1320000

Player Story

Dorian Jones story

Dorian Jones built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a linebacker from Plantation, FL wearing No. 44, spending time with Cincinnati, Louisville, and Virginia. The clearest part of Dorian Jones' career was his defensive production: 161 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, 4 sacks, and 1 interception across 42 career games in the available record. That gives Dorian 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

    Louisville

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Cincinnati

    2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Virginia

    2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2019202020212021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonLouisville0
2020 Regular SeasonLouisville06.310
2021 PostseasonLouisville825.56.78
2021 Regular SeasonLouisville825.56.70
2022 Regular SeasonLouisville8.522.35.70.5
2023 Regular SeasonCincinnati7.527.76.5-1
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia317.53.2-4.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ NC State

Week 9 · L 13-28 · Conference game

Loss with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5

Havoc Plays

90.8 takeover

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 90.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Oklahoma

Week 4 · L 6-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

90 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 90 takeover score.

#3

vs South Florida

Week 4 · W 41-3

2

Havoc Plays

79.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 79.7 takeover score.

#4

@ UCF

Week 2 · W 20-14

2

Havoc Plays

75 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75 takeover score.

#5

@ Pittsburgh

Week 11 · W 24-19 · 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.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati

7.5 primary output · 27.7 efficiency · 6.5 usage

55.5

#2

2022 Regular Season · Louisville

54.1

8.5 primary · 22.3 efficiency · 5.7 usage

#3

2021 Postseason · Louisville

52.6

8 primary · 25.5 efficiency · 6.7 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

6

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games