Player Dossier

2023-2025

SMU

Jaden Milliner-Jones

S • 5'11" • 200 lbs • Desoto, TX, USA

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Jaden Milliner-Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

14%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Colorado • SMU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Washington State

Player Story

Jaden Milliner-Jones built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a safety from Desoto, TX wearing No. 11, spending time with Colorado and SMU. The clearest part of Jaden Milliner-Jones' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.85

DeSoto · DeSoto, TX

Committed To
Colorado
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Jaden Milliner-Jones, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU. Jaden Milliner-Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
42
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Jaden Milliner-Jones quick answers

Latest team and position
SMU · S
Career Tackles
42
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 17 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · SMU
Top game
Washington State
Recruit profile
3-star · DeSoto · Colorado
High school pipeline
DeSoto · 90 FBS recruits · 10 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 11 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
17 tackles · S 275th (top 49%) · ACC 294th (top 37%) · National 2,271st (top 37%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonColorado924-0-3035.7
2024 Regular SeasonSMU11-0--037.2
2025 PostseasonSMU72-0--041.7
2025 Regular SeasonSMU715-0--041.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Colorado to SMUP4 to P475.9Apr 15, 2024

Jaden Milliner-Jones played S for Colorado and SMU. Across 3 tracked seasons, Jaden Milliner-Jones recorded 42 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Colorado.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

SMU paired 0 primary output with 10.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 10.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Colorado, SMU.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Missouri State

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 Postseason · SMU

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

10.1

Usage

1.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Missouri State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arizona: 0. Baylor: 0. Missouri State: 0. TCU: 0. Stanford: 0. Boston College: 0. Louisville: 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. Arizona: 2 by 8.3. Baylor: 2 by 8.3. Missouri State: 6 by 25. TCU: 3 by 12.5. Stanford: 1 by 4.2. Boston College: 2 by 8.3. Louisville: 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 = 5 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Missouri State

Best efficiency game

25 vs Missouri State

Result
Sat 1/3vs ArizonaW 24-1922000
Sat 11/22vs LouisvilleW 38-611000
Sat 11/8@ Boston CollegeW 45-1322000
Sat 10/11vs StanfordW 34-1011000
Sat 9/20@ TCUL 24-3531000
Sat 9/13@ Missouri StateW 28-1063000
Sat 9/6vs BaylorL 45-4822000

Player Story

Jaden Milliner-Jones story

Jaden Milliner-Jones built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a safety from Desoto, TX wearing No. 11, spending time with Colorado and SMU. The clearest part of Jaden Milliner-Jones' career was his defensive production: 42 tackles and 3 passes defended across 17 career games in the available record. That gives Jaden Milliner-Jones' 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

    Colorado

    2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    SMU

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonColorado314.52.1
2024 Regular SeasonSMU04.20.9-3
2025 PostseasonSMU010.11.80
2025 Regular SeasonSMU010.11.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Washington State

Week 12 · L 14-56 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

66.4 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 66.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Arizona

Week 11 · L 31-34 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

49.4 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.4 takeover score.

#3

@ Utah

Week 13 · L 17-23 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

48.9 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 108 Missouri State

Week 3 · W 28-10

0

Havoc Plays

21.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.9 takeover score.

#5

@ UCLA

Week 9 · L 16-28 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · SMU

0 primary output · 10.1 efficiency · 1.8 usage

41.7

#2

2025 Regular Season · SMU

41.7

0 primary · 10.1 efficiency · 1.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · SMU

37.2

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games