Usage Score
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Southern
Zay Franks
CB • 6'3" • 200 lbs • Magee, MS, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Zay Franks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.
Efficiency
8.3
Consistency
100
Season Value
54.2
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Southern
22232425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Seasons Tracked
- 4
- Program Path
- Southern Miss • Southern
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe
Scouting Read
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Zay Franks, CB. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Southern. Zay Franks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.
Zay Franks played CB for Southern Miss and Southern. Across 4 tracked seasons, Zay Franks recorded 65 receiving yards, 16 tackles, and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Southern Miss.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Southern paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 8.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 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 Southern Miss, Southern.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Fresno State
Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Southern
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
8.3
Usage
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Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Fresno State
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Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Fresno State
Best efficiency game
8.3 vs Fresno State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 9/14 | @ Fresno State | — | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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- 1
Southern Miss
2022-2024
Opening stop
- 2
Southern
2025
Final stop
Season Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 1 | 9.8 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 1 | 18.3 | 13.9 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Southern | 0 | 8.3 | — | -1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
UL Monroe
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Primary metric
1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.8 takeover score.
#2
Texas State
1
Primary metric
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.1 takeover score.
#3
South Alabama
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.
#4
App State
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.9 takeover score.
#5
Mississippi State
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.8 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by value score
2025 Regular Season · Southern
0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · — usage
54.2
#2
2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
33.5
1 primary · 18.3 efficiency · 13.9 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Southern Miss
33.3
0 primary · 0 efficiency · 0 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Bio, Recruit, and Data Context
Recruit Profile
3★
Class 2021 · Rating 0.8411
Magee · Magee, MS
- Committed To
- Southern Miss
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
Career Facts
2
Career teams
4
Seasons tracked
16
Career Tackles
Data Context
Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 11 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.