Player Dossier

2022-2025

Prairie View A&M

Jaylon Shelton

CB • 6'2" • 190 lbs • New London, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

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Usage / Role

19%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

34

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

39

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Texas State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
4
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
West Virginia • Texas State • UTEP • Prairie View A&M
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State

Player Story

Jaylon Shelton built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a cornerback from New London, TX wearing No. 9, spending time with Prairie View A&M, Texas State, UTEP, and West Virginia. The clearest part of Jaylon...

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Jaylon Shelton, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Texas State. Jaylon Shelton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
27
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Jaylon Shelton quick answers

Latest team and position
Prairie View A&M · CB
Career Tackles
27
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
Best season
2023 Postseason · Texas State
Top game
New Mexico State
High school pipeline
Northwest · 10 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 9 · Junior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonWest Virginia00-0--0-
2023 PostseasonTexas State11-0--037.2
2024 Regular SeasonUTEP826-0-3036.8
2025 Regular SeasonPrairie View A&M00-0--0-

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025UTEP to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted12.2Jun 17, 2025
2024Texas State to UTEPG5/FCS to G5/FCS79.3Dec 31, 2023
2023West Virginia to Texas StateP4 to G5/FCS18.2Apr 18, 2023

Jaylon Shelton played CB for West Virginia, Texas State, UTEP, and Prairie View A&M. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jaylon Shelton recorded 27 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UTEP.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Texas State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 17.3 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 4 team stops, with role shifts visible across West Virginia, Texas State, UTEP, Prairie View A&M.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State

Win with 1 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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2024 Regular Season · UTEP

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

17.3

Usage

2.1

Consistency

12.5

Best Game by takeover score

New Mexico State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Nebraska: 0. Southern Utah: 0. Colorado State: 0. Western Kentucky: 1. Florida International: 1. Louisiana Tech: 0. Tennessee: 0. New Mexico State: 1

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. Nebraska: 8 by 33.3. Southern Utah: 3 by 12.5. Colorado State: 2 by 8.3. Western Kentucky: 2 by 18.3. Florida International: 2 by 18.3. Louisiana Tech: 4 by 16.7. Tennessee: 1 by 4.2. New Mexico State: 4 by 26.7

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
Losses0.2 · Games = 6 · -0.8 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

New Mexico State

Best efficiency game

33.3 vs Nebraska

Result
Sat 11/30@ New Mexico StateW 42-3543001
Sat 11/23@ TennesseeL 0-5610000
Wed 10/23@ Louisiana TechL 10-1441000
Thu 10/17vs Florida InternationalW 30-2121001
Fri 10/11@ Western KentuckyL 17-4421001
Sat 9/21@ Colorado StateL 17-2721000
Sun 9/8vs Southern UtahL 24-2732000
Sat 8/31@ NebraskaL 7-4086000

Player Story

Jaylon Shelton story

Jaylon Shelton built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a cornerback from New London, TX wearing No. 9, spending time with Prairie View A&M, Texas State, UTEP, and West Virginia. The clearest part of Jaylon Shelton's career was his defensive production: 27 tackles and 3 passes defended across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Jaylon Shelton'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

    West Virginia

    2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Texas State

    2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    UTEP

    2024

    Peak year stop

  4. 4

    Prairie View A&M

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonWest Virginia0
2023 PostseasonTexas State04.20.90
2024 Regular SeasonUTEP317.32.13
2025 Regular SeasonPrairie View A&M0-3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ New Mexico State

Week 14 · W 42-35 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

47.8 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Florida International

Week 8 · W 30-21 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

43.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.9 takeover score.

#3

@ Western Kentucky

Week 7 · L 17-44 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

43.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Nebraska

Week 1 · L 7-40

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Havoc Plays

23 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 23 takeover score.

#5

@ Louisiana Tech

Week 9 · L 10-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

14.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Postseason · Texas State

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

37.2

#2

2024 Regular Season · UTEP

36.8

3 primary · 17.3 efficiency · 2.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · West Virginia

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games