Player Dossier

2022-2025

Purdue

Jamarius Dinkins

DL • 6'5" • 305 lbs • Columbus, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jamarius Dinkins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.3 disruption score.

Usage Score

3.8

Efficiency

11.3

Consistency

50

Season Value

18.8

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
Kentucky • Purdue
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Louisville

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Jamarius Dinkins, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue. Jamarius Dinkins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.3 disruption score.

Jamarius Dinkins played DL for Kentucky and Purdue. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jamarius Dinkins recorded 28 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Purdue paired 0 primary output with 9.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.3 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Kentucky, Purdue.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: USC

Loss 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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2025 Regular Season · Purdue

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

11.3

Usage

3.8

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Ohio State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. USC: 1. Ohio State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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Losses0.5 · Games = 2
All Games0.5 · Games = 2

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

USC

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs USC

Result
Sat 11/8vs Ohio StateL 10-3421000
Sat 9/13vs USCL 17-3311100

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Kentucky

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Purdue

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonKentucky210.73.4
2023 Regular SeasonKentucky110.82.6-1
2024 Regular SeasonPurdue09.41.8-1
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue111.33.81

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Louisville

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 45 takeover score.

#2

USC

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.2 takeover score.

#3

Ball State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 39.8 takeover score.

#4

Illinois

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5 takeover score.

#5

Missouri

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2024 Regular Season · Purdue

0 primary output · 9.4 efficiency · 1.8 usage

37.1

#2

2025 Regular Season · Purdue

18.8

1 primary · 11.3 efficiency · 3.8 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Kentucky

10.2

2 primary · 10.7 efficiency · 3.4 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2026 · Rating 0.8556

Long Beach Poly · Long Beach, CA

Committed To
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2026

Career Facts

2

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

28

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 15 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.