Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Marshall
Jacarius Clayton
DL • 6'4" • 240 lbs • Tupelo, MS, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Jacarius Clayton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
19
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Marshall
22232425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Mississippi State • Marshall
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss
4★
- Committed To
- Mississippi State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Jacarius Clayton, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Marshall. Jacarius Clayton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 7
Quick Answers
Jacarius Clayton quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Marshall · DL
- Career Tackles
- 7
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Marshall
- Top game
- Southern Miss
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Tupelo · Mississippi State
- High school pipeline
- Taft · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 24 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 1 tackles · DL 1,010th (top 94%) · Sun Belt 551st (top 87%) · National 5,408th (top 88%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Marshall | 4 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Marshall | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.2 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mississippi State to Marshall | P4 to G5/FCS | 81.4 | Dec 19, 2023 |
Jacarius Clayton played DL for Mississippi State and Marshall. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jacarius Clayton recorded 7 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Marshall.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Marshall paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 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 Mississippi State, Marshall.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Kentucky
Win 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 · Marshall
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.9
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Eastern Kentucky
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All Games0 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Eastern Kentucky
Best efficiency game
4.2 vs Eastern Kentucky
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 9/13 | vs Eastern Kentucky | W 38-7 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Mississippi State
2022-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Marshall
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Marshall | 0 | 6.3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Marshall | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Southern Miss
Week 11 · W 37-3 · Conference game
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Havoc Plays
7.2 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.
#2
vs Stony Brook
Week 1 · W 45-3
0
Havoc Plays
5.5 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.5 takeover score.
#3
@ Ohio State
Week 4 · L 14-49
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#4
vs Eastern Kentucky
Week 3 · W 38-7
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#5
vs App State
Week 6 · W 52-37 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.1 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Marshall
0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1 usage
38.3
#2
2025 Regular Season · Marshall
37.2
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Mississippi State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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