Player Dossier

2020-2025

Akron

Justin Anderson

CB • 6'0" • 200 lbs • East Palo Alto, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Justin Anderson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

20%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

35

Developing production for a corner

lowelite

Reliability

37

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

43

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Akron

2021222425

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Washington State • Akron
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Miami (OH)

Player Story

Justin Anderson built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a cornerback from East Palo Alto, CA wearing No. 4, spending time with Akron and Washington State. The clearest part of Justin Anderson's career was...

Read the story

Justin Anderson, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Akron. Justin Anderson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
75
TFL
3
Sacks
1
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Justin Anderson quick answers

Latest team and position
Akron · CB
Career Tackles
75
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 18 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Akron
Top game
Miami (OH)
High school pipeline
St. Xavier · 36 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 4 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
31 tackles · CB 104th (top 22%) · Mid-American 128th (top 23%) · National 1,332nd (top 22%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonWashington State00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonWashington State22-0-1022.6
2022 Regular SeasonWashington State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonAkron94231--045.3
2025 Regular SeasonAkron731-01-020.9

Related Context

Justin Anderson played CB for Washington State and Akron. Across 5 tracked seasons, Justin Anderson recorded 75 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Akron.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Akron paired 4 primary output with 23.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19.9 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 Washington State, Akron.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Miami (OH)

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2025 Regular Season · Akron

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

19.9

Usage

4

Consistency

4.8

Best Game by takeover score

Miami (OH)

Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

1234567

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wyoming: 0. Nebraska: 0. UAB: 0. Miami (OH): 1. Ball State: 0. Kent State: 0. Bowling Green: 0

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.

Low volumeHigh quality

High volumeHigh quality

Low volumeLower quality

High volumeLower quality

Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Wyoming: 9 by 37.5. Nebraska: 4 by 16.7. UAB: 1 by 4.2. Miami (OH): 7 by 39.2. Ball State: 5 by 20.8. Kent State: 4 by 16.7. Bowling Green: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Miami (OH)

Best efficiency game

39.2 vs Miami (OH)

Result
Wed 11/19@ Bowling GreenW 19-1611000
Wed 11/12vs Kent StateL 35-4242000
Sat 10/18@ Ball StateL 28-4252000
Sat 10/11vs Miami (OH)L 7-2074000
Sun 9/14@ UABL 28-3111000
Sat 9/6@ NebraskaL 0-6843000
Thu 8/28vs WyomingL 0-1096000

Player Story

Justin Anderson story

Justin Anderson built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a cornerback from East Palo Alto, CA wearing No. 4, spending time with Akron and Washington State. The clearest part of Justin Anderson's career was his defensive production: 75 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 pass defended across 18 career games in the available record. That gives Justin Anderson's 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

    Washington State

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Akron

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20202021202220242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonWashington State0
2021 Regular SeasonWashington State19.20.81
2022 Regular SeasonWashington State0-1
2024 Regular SeasonAkron423.95.64
2025 Regular SeasonAkron119.94-3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 82 Miami (OH)

Week 7 · L 7-20 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

75.8 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 75.8 takeover score.

#2

@ Ohio

Week 5 · L 10-30 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

73 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 73 takeover score.

#3

@ Kent State

Week 13 · W 38-17 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

72.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 72.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Rutgers

Week 2 · L 17-49

0.5

Havoc Plays

40.3 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.

#5

vs Portland State

Week 2 · W 44-24

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Akron

4 primary output · 23.9 efficiency · 5.6 usage

45.3

#2

2021 Regular Season · Washington State

22.6

1 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Akron

20.9

1 primary · 19.9 efficiency · 4 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games