Player Dossier

2022-2025

Northern Illinois

Malik Armstrong

CB • 6'0" • 192 lbs • Joliet, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Malik Armstrong shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a corner

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Northern Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan
2★

Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.7906

Minooka Community HS · Minooka, IL

Committed To
Northern Illinois
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Malik Armstrong, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois. Malik Armstrong shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
2

Quick Answers

Malik Armstrong quick answers

Latest team and position
Northern Illinois · CB
Career Tackles
2
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 2 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
Top game
Western Michigan
Recruit profile
2-star · Minooka Community HS · Northern Illinois
High school pipeline
Minooka Community HS · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 14 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
1 tackles · CB 459th (top 97%) · Mid-American 533rd (top 92%) · National 5,766th (top 93%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois11-0--037
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois11-0--037

Related Context

Malik Armstrong played CB for Northern Illinois. Across 4 tracked seasons, Malik Armstrong recorded 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Northern Illinois.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Northern Illinois paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Massachusetts

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Massachusetts

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All Games0 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Massachusetts

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Massachusetts

Result
Thu 11/13@ MassachusettsW 45-311000

Career Arc

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    Northern Illinois

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois0
2023 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois00
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois04.20.80
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois04.20.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Western Michigan

Week 11 · W 42-28 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 136 Massachusetts

Week 12 · W 45-3 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

37

#2

2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games