Player Dossier

2021-2025

Nevada

AJ Odums

CB • 5'10" • 178 lbs • Houston, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

AJ Odums shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

18%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

62

Solid production for a corner

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Reliability

34

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

70

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · UTEP

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
New Mexico • UTEP • Nevada
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Colorado State

Player Story

AJ Odums built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Houston, TX wearing No. 1, spending time with Nevada, New Mexico, and UTEP. The clearest part of AJ Odums' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.77

Westfield · Houston, TX

Committed To
New Mexico
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

AJ Odums, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · UTEP. AJ Odums shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
150
TFL
3.5
Sacks
1
Passes defended
21

Quick Answers

AJ Odums quick answers

Latest team and position
Nevada · CB
Career Tackles
150
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 40 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · UTEP
Top game
Colorado State
Recruit profile
2-star · Westfield · New Mexico
High school pipeline
Westfield · 47 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 1 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
49 tackles · CB 29th (top 7%) · Mountain West 50th (top 10%) · National 628th (top 11%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNew Mexico3710--016.2
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico114811-3035.7
2023 Regular SeasonUTEP10300.50-7046.7
2024 Regular SeasonUTEP516-0-4030.4
2025 Regular SeasonNevada114910-7043.7

Related Context

AJ Odums played CB for New Mexico, UTEP, and Nevada. Across 5 tracked seasons, AJ Odums recorded 150 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with New Mexico.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

UTEP paired 7.5 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 23.3 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 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across New Mexico, UTEP, Nevada.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Colorado State

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · UTEP

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

23.3

Usage

2.7

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Colorado State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Nebraska: 1. Southern Utah: 0. Liberty: 0. Colorado State: 4. Sam Houston: 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. Nebraska: 7 by 39.2. Southern Utah: 2 by 8.3. Liberty: 4 by 16.7. Colorado State: 2 by 48.3. Sam Houston: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.3 · Games = 3 · -1.7 vs Second Half
Second Half2 · Games = 2 · +1.7 vs First Half

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Colorado State

Best efficiency game

48.3 vs Colorado State

Result
Fri 10/4vs Sam HoustonL 21-4111000
Sat 9/21@ Colorado StateSplash gameL 17-27200013
Sat 9/14@ LibertyL 10-2842000
Sun 9/8vs Southern UtahL 24-2721000
Sat 8/31@ NebraskaL 7-4076001

Player Story

AJ Odums story

AJ Odums built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Houston, TX wearing No. 1, spending time with Nevada, New Mexico, and UTEP. The clearest part of AJ Odums' career was his defensive production: 150 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 2 interceptions across 40 career games in the available record. That gives AJ Odums' 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. 1

    New Mexico

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UTEP

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Nevada

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNew Mexico1133.4
2022 Regular SeasonNew Mexico623.64.25
2023 Regular SeasonUTEP7.5202.81.5
2024 Regular SeasonUTEP523.32.7-2.5
2025 Regular SeasonNevada825.84.13

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Colorado State

Week 13 · L 0-17 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

84.7 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 84.7 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 110 Wyoming

Week 13 · W 13-7 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

81.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 79 Utah State

Week 11 · L 14-51 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

66.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 66.7 takeover score.

#4

@ Colorado State

Week 4 · L 17-27

4

Havoc Plays

63.6 takeover

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 63.6 takeover score.

#5

@ UNLV

Week 5 · L 20-31 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

62.8 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 62.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · UTEP

7.5 primary output · 20 efficiency · 2.8 usage

46.7

#2

2025 Regular Season · Nevada

43.7

8 primary · 25.8 efficiency · 4.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · New Mexico

35.7

6 primary · 23.6 efficiency · 4.2 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

7

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games