Usage Score
2.9
Player Dossier
2022-2025Charlotte
CJ Clinkscales
DB • 5'8" • 175 lbs • Buford, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
CJ Clinkscales shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.6 disruption score.
Efficiency
18.6
Consistency
100
Season Value
40.5
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Charlotte
22232425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Seasons Tracked
- 4
- Program Path
- Boston College • Charlotte
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Syracuse
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.
CJ Clinkscales, DB. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Charlotte. CJ Clinkscales shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.6 disruption score.
CJ Clinkscales played DB for Boston College and Charlotte. Across 4 tracked seasons, CJ Clinkscales recorded 72 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Charlotte.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Charlotte paired 0 primary output with 18.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 18.6 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 Boston College, Charlotte.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: East Carolina
Loss with 0 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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2025 Regular Season · Charlotte
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
18.6
Usage
2.9
Consistency
100
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. App State: 0. Unknown: 0. Rice: 0. South Florida: 0. Army: 0. Temple: 0. North Texas: 0. East Carolina: 0. UTSA: 0. Georgia: 0. Tulane: 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.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. App State: 4 by 16.7. Unknown: 4 by 16.7. Rice: 5 by 20.8. South Florida: 6 by 25. Army: 3 by 12.5. Temple: 3 by 12.5. North Texas: 6 by 25. East Carolina: 6 by 25. UTSA: 2 by 8.3. Georgia: 5 by 20.8. Tulane: 5 by 20.8
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Losses0 · Games = 10
First Half0 · Games = 6 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 5 · +0 vs First Half
All Games0 · Games = 11
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
East Carolina
Best efficiency game
25 vs East Carolina
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/30 | @ Tulane | L 0-27 | 5 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | @ Georgia | L 3-35 | 5 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | vs UTSA | L 7-28 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ East Carolina | L 22-48 | 6 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 10/24 | vs North Texas | L 20-54 | 6 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | vs Temple | L 14-49 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Army | L 7-24 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 10/3 | @ South Florida | L 26-54 | 6 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 9/18 | vs Rice | L 17-28 | 5 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Unknown | — | 4 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 8/29 | vs App State | L 11-34 | 4 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Boston College
2022-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Charlotte
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Boston College | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Boston College | 1 | 13.7 | 4.6 | 1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Charlotte | 0 | 12.5 | 2.7 | -1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Charlotte | 0 | 18.6 | 2.9 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
Syracuse
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Primary metric
1 disruption/tackle impact with 45.9 takeover score.
#2
East Carolina
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.6 takeover score.
#3
North Texas
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.5 takeover score.
#4
South Florida
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.2 takeover score.
#5
Rice
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by value score
2025 Regular Season · Charlotte
0 primary output · 18.6 efficiency · 2.9 usage
40.5
#2
2024 Regular Season · Charlotte
38.4
0 primary · 12.5 efficiency · 2.7 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Boston College
6.8
1 primary · 13.7 efficiency · 4.6 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Bio, Recruit, and Data Context
Recruit Profile
3★
Class 2022 · Rating 0.85
Buford · Buford, GA
- Committed To
- Boston College
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Career Facts
2
Career teams
4
Seasons tracked
72
Career Tackles
Data Context
Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 19 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.