Player Dossier

2021-2024

Kentucky

Maxwell Hairston

DB • 6'1" • 186 lbs • West Bloomfield, MI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Maxwell Hairston shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.9 disruption score.

Usage Score

9.4

Efficiency

29.9

Consistency

46.2

Season Value

23.9

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Kentucky

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt

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.

Maxwell Hairston, DB. Best season Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Kentucky. Maxwell Hairston shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.9 disruption score.

Maxwell Hairston played DB for Kentucky. Across 4 tracked seasons, Maxwell Hairston recorded 87 tackles and 6 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Kentucky paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 29.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2024 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Louisville

Loss with 3 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 Regular Season · Kentucky

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

1.4

Efficiency

29.9

Usage

9.4

Consistency

46.2

Best Game by takeover score

Louisville

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. South Carolina: 2. Georgia: 0. Ohio: 1. Texas: 1. Louisville: 3

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. South Carolina: 3 by 32.5. Georgia: 4 by 16.7. Ohio: 1 by 14.2. Texas: 7 by 39.2. Louisville: 4 by 46.7

Split Comparison

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

Losses1.5 · Games = 4
First Half1 · Games = 3 · -1 vs Second Half
Second Half2 · Games = 2 · +1 vs First Half
All Games1.4 · Games = 5

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Louisville

Best efficiency game

46.7 vs Louisville

Result
Sat 11/30vs LouisvilleL 14-4143003
Sat 11/23@ TexasL 14-3176001
Sat 9/21vs OhioW 41-6100010
Sat 9/14vs GeorgiaL 12-1343000
Sat 9/7vs South CarolinaL 6-3133110

Career Arc

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

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    Kentucky

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

Season Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonKentucky0
2022 Regular SeasonKentucky08.32.20
2023 PostseasonKentucky12.530.88.812.5
2023 Regular SeasonKentucky12.530.88.80
2024 Regular SeasonKentucky729.99.4-5.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Vanderbilt

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5

Primary metric

5 disruption/tackle impact with 68.1 takeover score.

#2

Louisville

3

Primary metric

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 49.9 takeover score.

#3

South Carolina

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 36.2 takeover score.

#4

Georgia

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 26.7 takeover score.

#5

Texas

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 25.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2022 Regular Season · Kentucky

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 2.2 usage

36.8

#2

2023 Postseason · Kentucky

27.9

12.5 primary · 30.8 efficiency · 8.8 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Kentucky

27.9

12.5 primary · 30.8 efficiency · 8.8 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2026 · Rating 0.85

Crete-Monee · Crete, IL

Committed To
New Mexico
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2026

Career Facts

1

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

87

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 19 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.