Player Dossier

2023-2025

Texas Tech

Jayden Cofield

DL • 6'2" • 315 lbs • Austin, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jayden Cofield shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

23%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

52

Solid production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

36

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

67

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Texas Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Texas Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Player Story

Jayden Cofield built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Austin, TX wearing No. 51, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of Jayden Cofield's career was his defensive...

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Jayden Cofield, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Texas Tech. Jayden Cofield shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
48
TFL
9.5
Sacks
3.5
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Jayden Cofield quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas Tech · DL
Career Tackles
48
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 19 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Texas Tech
Top game
Arkansas
High school pipeline
Manor · 14 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 51 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
25 tackles · DL 253rd (top 24%) · Big 12 193rd (top 27%) · National 1,700th (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonTexas Tech11-0--037
2024 PostseasonTexas Tech941011049.3
2024 Regular SeasonTexas Tech9183.52--049.3
2025 Regular SeasonTexas Tech92551.5--036.2

Related Context

Jayden Cofield played DL for Texas Tech. Across 3 tracked seasons, Jayden Cofield recorded 48 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Texas Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Texas Tech paired 8.5 primary output with 19.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 18.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: West Virginia

Win with 2 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 · Texas Tech

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

18.8

Usage

4.6

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

West Virginia

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 0. Kent State: 2. Oregon State: 0. Houston: 0. Kansas: 0. Oklahoma State: 0.5. UCF: 2. West Virginia: 2. BYU: 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. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 3 by 12.5. Kent State: 2 by 28.3. Oregon State: 3 by 12.5. Houston: 1 by 4.2. Kansas: 3 by 12.5. Oklahoma State: 5 by 25.8. UCF: 3 by 32.5. West Virginia: 4 by 36.7. BYU: 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 Half0.4 · Games = 5 · -0.7 vs Second Half
Second Half1.1 · Games = 4 · +0.7 vs First Half

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

West Virginia

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs West Virginia

Result
Sat 12/6vs BYUW 34-710000
Sat 11/29@ West VirginiaSplash gameW 49-042110
Sat 11/15vs UCFSplash gameW 48-9321.500.500
Sat 10/25vs Oklahoma StateW 42-0500.5000
Sat 10/11vs KansasW 42-1731000
Sat 10/4@ HoustonW 35-1110000
Sat 9/13vs Oregon StateW 45-1432000
Sat 9/6vs Kent StateSplash gameW 62-1422200
Sat 8/30vs Arkansas-Pine BluffW 67-731000

Player Story

Jayden Cofield story

Jayden Cofield built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Austin, TX wearing No. 51, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of Jayden Cofield's career was his defensive production: 48 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Jayden Cofield's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Texas Tech

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonTexas Tech04.20.8
2024 PostseasonTexas Tech8.519.65.48.5
2024 Regular SeasonTexas Tech8.519.65.40
2025 Regular SeasonTexas Tech6.518.84.6-2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Arkansas

Week 1 · L 26-39 · Postseason

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

78.3 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 78.3 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 93 West Virginia

Week 14 · W 49-0 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

76.4 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 76 UCF

Week 12 · W 48-9 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

71.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Cincinnati

Week 5 · W 44-41 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

63.1 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 130 Kent State

Week 2 · W 62-14

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Havoc Plays

60.5 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Texas Tech

8.5 primary output · 19.6 efficiency · 5.4 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · Texas Tech

49.3

8.5 primary · 19.6 efficiency · 5.4 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Texas Tech

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

6

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games