Player Dossier

2022-2025

Liberty

DJ Jackson

DL • 6'2" • 280 lbs • Sumter, SC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

DJ Jackson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

28

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

21

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

37

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · NC State

22232425

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
NC State • Liberty
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green

DJ Jackson, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · NC State. DJ Jackson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
19
TFL
2
Sacks
0.5

Quick Answers

DJ Jackson quick answers

Latest team and position
Liberty · DL
Career Tackles
19
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 7 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · NC State
Top game
Bowling Green
High school pipeline
Sumter · 13 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 90 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DL 633rd (top 59%) · Conference USA 267th (top 49%) · National 2,910th (top 47%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonNC State00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonNC State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonNC State3910.5--052.3
2025 Regular SeasonLiberty41010--030.4

Related Context

DJ Jackson played DL for NC State and Liberty. Across 4 tracked seasons, DJ Jackson recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Liberty.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

NC State paired 1.5 primary output with 17.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.9 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 NC State, Liberty.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green

Loss with 1 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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2025 Regular Season · Liberty

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

12.9

Usage

4.1

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Maine: 0. Bowling Green: 1. James Madison: 0. Old Dominion: 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. Maine: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 5 by 30.8. James Madison: 2 by 8.3. Old Dominion: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Bowling Green

Best efficiency game

30.8 vs Bowling Green

Result
Sat 9/27@ Old DominionL 7-2120000
Sat 9/20vs James MadisonL 13-3121000
Sat 9/13@ Bowling GreenL 13-2353100
Sat 8/30vs MaineW 28-710000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    NC State

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Liberty

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNC State0
2023 Regular SeasonNC State00
2024 Regular SeasonNC State1.517.53.61.5
2025 Regular SeasonLiberty112.94.1-0.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 113 Bowling Green

Week 3 · L 13-23

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

76.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 76.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Syracuse

Week 7 · L 17-24 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

58.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.6 takeover score.

#3

@ California

Week 8 · W 24-23 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

35.6 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 35.6 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 27 James Madison

Week 4 · L 13-31

0

Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 49 Old Dominion

Week 5 · L 7-21

0

Havoc Plays

5.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · NC State

1.5 primary output · 17.5 efficiency · 3.6 usage

52.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Liberty

30.4

1 primary · 12.9 efficiency · 4.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · NC State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games