Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Purdue
CJ Madden
DE • 6'4" • 275 lbs • Ellenwood, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
CJ Madden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
31
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
46
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
36
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Purdue
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Georgia • Purdue
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Indiana
Player Story
CJ Madden built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Ellenwood, GA wearing No. 8, spending time with Georgia and Purdue. The clearest part of CJ Madden's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Georgia
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
CJ Madden, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Purdue. CJ Madden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 24
- TFL
- 3
- Sacks
- 0.5
- QB hurries
- 2
Quick Answers
CJ Madden quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Purdue · DE
- Career Tackles
- 24
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 14 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Purdue
- Top game
- Indiana
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Cedar Grove · Georgia
- High school pipeline
- Cedar Grove · 40 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 14 tackles · DE 138th (top 49%) · Big Ten 311th (top 40%) · National 2,500th (top 41%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Georgia | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Georgia | 3 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 3 | 7 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 35.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 8 | 14 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 1 | - | 0 | 51.5 |
Related Context
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CJ Madden played DE for Georgia and Purdue. Across 4 tracked seasons, CJ Madden recorded 24 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Purdue.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Purdue paired 4 primary output with 12.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 14.7 efficiency.
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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 Georgia, Purdue.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Indiana State
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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2024 Regular Season · Purdue
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
14.7
Usage
3.4
Consistency
61.7
Best Game by takeover score
Indiana State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Indiana State: 1. Notre Dame: 0. Oregon State: 0.5
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. Indiana State: 2 by 18.3. Notre Dame: 2 by 8.3. Oregon State: 3 by 17.5
Split Comparison
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Wins1 · Games = 1 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 2 · -0.8 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
3 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Indiana State
Best efficiency game
18.3 vs Indiana State
Player Story
CJ Madden story
CJ Madden built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Ellenwood, GA wearing No. 8, spending time with Georgia and Purdue. The clearest part of CJ Madden's career was his defensive production: 24 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 0.5 sacks across 14 career games in the available record. That gives CJ Madden'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
Georgia
2022-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Purdue
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Georgia | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Georgia | 0 | 4.2 | 1.1 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 1.5 | 14.7 | 3.4 | 1.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 4 | 12.3 | 4.2 | 2.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 1 Indiana
Week 14 · L 3-56 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
72.8 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 72.8 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 24 Illinois
Week 6 · L 27-43 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
61.4 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.4 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 132 Ball State
Week 1 · W 31-0
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Havoc Plays
60.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.
#4
vs Indiana State
Week 1 · W 49-0
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Havoc Plays
53 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 53 takeover score.
#5
@ Oregon State
Week 4 · L 21-38
0.5
Havoc Plays
33.6 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 33.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Purdue
4 primary output · 12.3 efficiency · 4.2 usage
51.5
#2
2023 Regular Season · Georgia
37.8
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1.1 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Purdue
35.6
1.5 primary · 14.7 efficiency · 3.4 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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