Player Dossier

2021-2024

Sam Houston

Jaden Phillips

DL • 6'2" • 270 lbs • Clovis, NM, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jaden Phillips shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

12%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

26

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

26

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

34

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · New Mexico

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
New Mexico • Sam Houston
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Utah State

Player Story

Jaden Phillips built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Clovis, NM wearing No. 55, spending time with New Mexico and Sam Houston. The clearest part of Jaden Phillips' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8074

Clovis · Clovis, NM

Committed To
New Mexico
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Jaden Phillips, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · New Mexico. Jaden Phillips shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
41
TFL
6.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
5

Quick Answers

Jaden Phillips quick answers

Latest team and position
Sam Houston · DL
Career Tackles
41
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 22 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · New Mexico
Top game
Utah State
Recruit profile
3-star · Clovis · New Mexico
High school pipeline
Clovis · 5 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 55 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
6 tackles · DL 702nd (top 69%) · Conference USA 247th (top 55%) · National 3,305th (top 55%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNew Mexico6121.51.5--027.4
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico820312-048.7
2023 Regular SeasonSam Houston2310--025.4
2024 Regular SeasonSam Houston66103-042.1

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023New Mexico to Sam HoustonG5/FCS to G5/FCS21.2Dec 9, 2022

Jaden Phillips played DL for New Mexico and Sam Houston. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jaden Phillips recorded 41 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with New Mexico.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

New Mexico paired 6 primary output with 17.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across New Mexico, Sam Houston.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UTEP

Win 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 · Sam Houston

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

10.8

Usage

3.1

Consistency

65.3

Best Game by takeover score

UTEP

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. New Mexico State: 1. UTEP: 1. Western Kentucky: 1. Kennesaw State: 0. Jacksonville State: 0. Liberty: 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. New Mexico State: 1 by 14.2. UTEP: 2 by 18.3. Western Kentucky: 0 by 10. Kennesaw State: 1 by 4.2. Jacksonville State: 2 by 8.3. Liberty: 0 by 10

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 2 · -0.3 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

UTEP

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs UTEP

Result
Fri 11/29vs LibertyW 20-1800000
Sat 11/23@ Jacksonville StateL 11-2122000
Sat 11/16@ Kennesaw StateW 23-1710000
Wed 10/16vs Western KentuckyL 14-3100000
Fri 10/4@ UTEPW 41-2122000
Sat 9/21vs New Mexico StateW 31-1111100

Player Story

Jaden Phillips story

Jaden Phillips built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Clovis, NM wearing No. 55, spending time with New Mexico and Sam Houston. The clearest part of Jaden Phillips' career was his defensive production: 41 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks across 22 career games in the available record. That gives Jaden Phillips' 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

    New Mexico

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Sam Houston

    2023-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNew Mexico313.34.2
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico617.94.63
2023 Regular SeasonSam Houston111.32.8-5
2024 Regular SeasonSam Houston410.83.13

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Utah State

Week 13 · L 10-35 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#2

@ Colorado State

Week 13 · L 0-17 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#3

@ Utah State

Week 10 · L 10-27 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

72 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 72 takeover score.

#4

@ UTEP

Week 6 · W 41-21 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

53.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.9 takeover score.

#5

@ New Mexico State

Week 7 · L 13-27 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

50 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · New Mexico

6 primary output · 17.9 efficiency · 4.6 usage

48.7

#2

2024 Regular Season · Sam Houston

42.1

4 primary · 10.8 efficiency · 3.1 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · New Mexico

27.4

3 primary · 13.3 efficiency · 4.2 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games