Player Dossier

2022-2025

UAB

Tariq Watson

CB • 5'10" • 185 lbs • Gretna, LA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tariq Watson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.

Usage / Role

16%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

21

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

16

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

33

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Minnesota

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Minnesota • UAB
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

Tariq Watson, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Minnesota. Tariq Watson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
28
TFL
0.5
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Tariq Watson quick answers

Latest team and position
UAB · CB
Career Tackles
28
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 18 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Minnesota
Top game
Tennessee
High school pipeline
Zachary · 20 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · CB 250th (top 53%) · American Athletic 288th (top 45%) · National 2,749th (top 45%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota12-0--042.8
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota6100.50--011.1
2024 Regular SeasonUAB34-0-2024.6
2025 Regular SeasonUAB812-012034.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Minnesota to UABP4 to G5/FCS79.3Apr 16, 2024

Tariq Watson played CB for Minnesota and UAB. Across 4 tracked seasons, Tariq Watson recorded 28 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UAB.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Minnesota paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Minnesota, UAB.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · UAB

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

10

Usage

2.5

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Alabama State: 0. Navy: 0. Tennessee: 2. Memphis: 0. UConn: 0. North Texas: 1. South Florida: 0. Tulsa: 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. Alabama State: 2 by 8.3. Navy: 1 by 4.2. Tennessee: 0 by 20. Memphis: 6 by 25. UConn: 1 by 4.2. North Texas: 0 by 10. South Florida: 1 by 4.2. Tulsa: 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 = 3 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 5 · +0.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Tennessee

Best efficiency game

25 vs Memphis

Result
Sat 11/29@ TulsaW 31-2410000
Sat 11/22vs South FloridaL 18-4810000
Sat 11/15vs North TexasL 24-5300001
Sat 11/1@ UConnL 19-3811000
Sat 10/18vs MemphisW 31-2464000
Sat 9/20@ TennesseeSplash gameL 24-5600001
Sat 9/6@ NavyL 24-3810000
Fri 8/29vs Alabama StateW 52-4222000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Minnesota

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UAB

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota08.32.4
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota0.57.81.70.5
2024 Regular SeasonUAB212.211.5
2025 Regular SeasonUAB3102.51

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 19 Tennessee

Week 4 · L 24-56 · Ranked opponent

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Alcorn State

Week 1 · W 41-3

2

Havoc Plays

40 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.

#3

vs Nebraska

Week 1 · W 13-10 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

31.1 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 31.1 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 39 Memphis

Week 8 · W 31-24 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

23.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 23.9 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 22 North Texas

Week 12 · L 24-53 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

20 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 20 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Minnesota

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 2.4 usage

42.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · UAB

34.8

3 primary · 10 efficiency · 2.5 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · UAB

24.6

2 primary · 12.2 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games