Player Dossier

2023-2025

Purdue

Jamarrion Harkless

DL • 6'3" • 345 lbs • Lexington, KY, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jamarrion Harkless shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

28%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

35

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

66

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Purdue

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Purdue
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers

Player Story

Jamarrion Harkless built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Lexington, KY wearing No. 97, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Jamarrion Harkless' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8678

Frederick Douglass · Lexington, KY

Committed To
Purdue
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Jamarrion Harkless, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Purdue. Jamarrion Harkless shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
19
TFL
2
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
4

Quick Answers

Jamarrion Harkless quick answers

Latest team and position
Purdue · DL
Career Tackles
19
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 17 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Purdue
Top game
Rutgers
Recruit profile
3-star · Frederick Douglass · Purdue
High school pipeline
Frederick Douglass · 14 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 97 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
13 tackles · DL 552nd (top 52%) · Big Ten 322nd (top 42%) · National 2,609th (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonPurdue00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonPurdue56-0--037.8
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue121322.54-039.1

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Purdue to KentuckyP4 to P482.1Jan 7, 2026

Jamarrion Harkless played DL for Purdue. Across 3 tracked seasons, Jamarrion Harkless recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Purdue.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Purdue paired 8.5 primary output with 11.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.6 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: Rutgers

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Purdue

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

11.6

Usage

3.7

Consistency

13.9

Best Game by takeover score

Rutgers

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ball State: 2.5. Southern Illinois: 0. USC: 0. Notre Dame: 0. Illinois: 1. Minnesota: 1. Northwestern: 1. Rutgers: 3. Michigan: 0. Ohio State: 0. Washington: 0. Indiana: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Ball State: 2 by 33.3. Southern Illinois: 1 by 4.2. USC: 1 by 4.2. Notre Dame: 1 by 4.2. Illinois: 2 by 18.3. Minnesota: 0 by 10. Northwestern: 1 by 14.2. Rutgers: 1 by 34.2. Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2. Washington: 1 by 4.2. Indiana: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.3 · Games = 2 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 10 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Rutgers

Best efficiency game

34.2 vs Rutgers

Result
Sat 11/29vs IndianaL 3-5610000
Sun 11/16@ WashingtonL 13-4910000
Sat 11/8vs Ohio StateL 10-3410000
Sat 11/1@ MichiganL 16-2111000
Sat 10/25vs RutgersSplash gameL 24-2711110
Sat 10/18@ NorthwesternL 0-1910000
Sat 10/11@ MinnesotaL 20-2700000
Sat 10/4vs IllinoisL 27-4321000
Sat 9/20@ Notre DameL 30-5610000
Sat 9/13vs USCL 17-3311000
Sat 9/6vs Southern IllinoisW 34-1710000
Sat 8/30vs Ball StateSplash gameW 31-02011.500

Player Story

Jamarrion Harkless story

Jamarrion Harkless built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Lexington, KY wearing No. 97, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Jamarrion Harkless' career was his defensive production: 19 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks across 17 career games in the available record. That gives Jamarrion Harkless' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Purdue

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonPurdue0
2024 Regular SeasonPurdue0510
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue8.511.63.78.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 72 Rutgers

Week 9 · L 24-27 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

74.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 74.2 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 132 Ball State

Week 1 · W 31-0

2.5

Havoc Plays

72.2 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 72.2 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 24 Illinois

Week 6 · L 27-43 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

33 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 33 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 51 Northwestern

Week 8 · L 0-19 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

31.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 31.1 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 70 Minnesota

Week 7 · L 20-27 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

26.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 26.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Purdue

8.5 primary output · 11.6 efficiency · 3.7 usage

39.1

#2

2024 Regular Season · Purdue

37.8

0 primary · 5 efficiency · 1 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Purdue

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games