Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2024Oklahoma
Dez Malone
DB • 6'0" • 204 lbs • Fresno, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Dez Malone shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
34
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
35
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
46
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · San Diego State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- San Diego State • Oklahoma
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UNLV
Player Story
Dez Malone built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive back from Fresno, CA wearing No. 4, spending time with Oklahoma and San Diego State. The clearest part of Dez Malone's career was his...
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- Committed To
- San Diego State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
Dez Malone, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · San Diego State. Dez Malone shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 114
- TFL
- 4.5
- Sacks
- 1
- Passes defended
- 16
Quick Answers
Dez Malone quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Oklahoma · DB
- Career Tackles
- 114
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 36 games
- Best season
- 2022 Postseason · San Diego State
- Top game
- UNLV
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Edison · San Diego State
- High school pipeline
- Edison · 27 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 4 · Senior
- 2024 Tackles rank
- 27 tackles · DB 373rd (top 39%) · SEC 196th (top 27%) · National 1,565th (top 26%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | San Diego State | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 33.3 |
| 2021 Regular Season | San Diego State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Postseason | San Diego State | 13 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 49.8 |
| 2022 Regular Season | San Diego State | 13 | 41 | 1 | 0 | - | 5 | 0 | 49.8 |
| 2023 Regular Season | San Diego State | 12 | 46 | 2 | 1 | - | 7 | 0 | 44.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Oklahoma | 10 | 27 | 1.5 | 0 | - | 3 | 0 | 22.8 |
Related Context
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Dez Malone played DB for San Diego State and Oklahoma. Across 5 tracked seasons, Dez Malone recorded 3 rushing yards and 114 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with San Diego State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2022 Postseason
San Diego State paired 10 primary output with 20.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2024 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 San Diego State, Oklahoma.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Tulane
Win with 2 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 · Oklahoma
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
15.8
Usage
2.6
Consistency
13.3
Best Game by takeover score
Tulane
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Temple: 0. Houston: 0. Tulane: 2. Tennessee: 0. Auburn: 1. Texas: 0. Ole Miss: 0.5. Missouri: 0. Alabama: 0. LSU: 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. Temple: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 2 by 8.3. Tulane: 1 by 24.2. Tennessee: 3 by 12.5. Auburn: 4 by 26.7. Texas: 1 by 4.2. Ole Miss: 5 by 25.8. Missouri: 2 by 8.3. Alabama: 5 by 20.8. LSU: 3 by 22.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.6 · Games = 5 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 5 · -0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Tulane
Best efficiency game
26.7 vs Auburn
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 12/1 | @ LSU | L 17-37 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sun 11/24 | vs Alabama | W 24-3 | 5 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/10 | @ Missouri | L 23-30 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/26 | @ Ole Miss | L 14-26 | 5 | 4 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/12 | vs Texas | L 3-34 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/28 | @ Auburn | W 27-21 | 4 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/21 | vs Tennessee | L 15-25 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/14 | vs TulaneSplash game | W 34-19 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/7 | vs Houston | W 16-12 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 8/30 | vs Temple | W 51-3 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Dez Malone story
Dez Malone built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive back from Fresno, CA wearing No. 4, spending time with Oklahoma and San Diego State. The clearest part of Dez Malone's career was his defensive production: 114 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 4 interceptions across 36 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with San Diego State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Dez Malone's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 3 rushing yards and 37 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 36 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Oklahoma and San Diego State.
The arc is straightforward: Dez Malone moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
San Diego State
2020-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Oklahoma
2024
Final stop
Season Value Progression
202020212022202220232024
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | San Diego State | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 Regular Season | San Diego State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2022 Postseason | San Diego State | 10 | 20.8 | 4.3 | 10 |
| 2022 Regular Season | San Diego State | 10 | 20.8 | 4.3 | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | San Diego State | 11 | 25.1 | 4.9 | 1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Oklahoma | 4.5 | 15.8 | 2.6 | -6.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs UNLV
Week 10 · W 14-10 · Conference game
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
66.1 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 66.1 takeover score.
#2
vs Idaho State
Week 1 · W 36-28
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Havoc Plays
65.5 takeover
Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
5 disruption/tackle impact with 65.5 takeover score.
#3
vs Hawai'i
Week 6 · W 16-14 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
60.3 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60.3 takeover score.
#4
vs Nevada
Week 8 · L 0-6 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
60.3 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.3 takeover score.
#5
vs San José State
Week 11 · W 43-27 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
53.6 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 53.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2022 Postseason · San Diego State
10 primary output · 20.8 efficiency · 4.3 usage
49.8
#2
2022 Regular Season · San Diego State
49.8
10 primary · 20.8 efficiency · 4.3 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · San Diego State
44.9
11 primary · 25.1 efficiency · 4.9 usage
Milestones
4
Impact games
7
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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