Player Dossier

2019-2024

SMU

Davaughn Celestine

S • 6'0" • 190 lbs • Placentia, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Davaughn Celestine shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.3 disruption score.

Usage Score

1.2

Efficiency

7.3

Consistency

100

Season Value

36.2

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · SMU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
8
Program Path
San Diego State • SMU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Idaho State

Scouting Read

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Davaughn Celestine, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · SMU. Davaughn Celestine shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.3 disruption score.

Davaughn Celestine played S for San Diego State and SMU. Across 6 tracked seasons, Davaughn Celestine recorded 80 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with San Diego State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

SMU paired 0 primary output with 7.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 7.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2024 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 San Diego State, SMU.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh

Win with 0 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 Postseason · SMU

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

7.3

Usage

1.2

Consistency

100

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. Penn State: 0. Houston Christian: 0. BYU: 0. TCU: 0. Stanford: 0. Duke: 0. Pittsburgh: 0. California: 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. Penn State: 1 by 4.2. Houston Christian: 1 by 4.2. BYU: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 1 by 4.2. Stanford: 3 by 12.5. Duke: 1 by 4.2. Pittsburgh: 4 by 16.7. California: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 6 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 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

Pittsburgh

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Pittsburgh

Result
Sat 12/21@ Penn StateL 10-3810000
Sat 11/30vs CaliforniaW 38-620000
Sun 11/3vs PittsburghW 48-2544000
Sun 10/27@ DukeW 28-2710000
Sun 10/20@ StanfordW 40-1033000
Sat 9/21vs TCUW 66-4211000
Fri 9/6vs BYUL 15-1810000
Sun 9/1vs Houston ChristianW 59-711000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    San Diego State

    2019-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    SMU

    2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120222022202320242024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonSan Diego State0
2020 Regular SeasonSan Diego State00
2021 Regular SeasonSan Diego State04.20.80
2022 PostseasonSan Diego State518.74.15
2022 Regular SeasonSan Diego State518.74.10
2023 Regular SeasonSan Diego State215.45-3
2024 PostseasonSMU07.31.2-2
2024 Regular SeasonSMU07.31.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Idaho State

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.6 takeover score.

#2

Air Force

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.8 takeover score.

#3

Idaho State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.2 takeover score.

#4

Toledo

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 27 takeover score.

#5

San José State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 25.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · SMU

0 primary output · 7.3 efficiency · 1.2 usage

36.2

#2

2024 Regular Season · SMU

36.2

0 primary · 7.3 efficiency · 1.2 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · San Diego State

35

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit context is not available for this player in the current dataset.

Career Facts

2

Career teams

8

Seasons tracked

80

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 8 tracked seasons, 30 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.