Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Southern
AJ Stephens
DB • 5'11" • 185 lbs • Spring, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
AJ Stephens shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Rice
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Rice • Southern
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Texas Southern
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- Committed To
- Rice
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
AJ Stephens, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Rice. AJ Stephens shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 1
Quick Answers
AJ Stephens quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Southern · DB
- Career Tackles
- 1
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 1 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Rice
- Top game
- Texas Southern
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Aldine MacArthur · Rice
- High school pipeline
- Aldine MacArthur · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 25 · Freshman
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Rice | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Rice | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Southern | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
Related Context
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AJ Stephens played DB for Rice and Southern. Across 3 tracked seasons, AJ Stephens recorded 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Rice.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Rice paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.
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Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Rice, Southern.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Texas Southern
Win with 0 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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2024 Regular Season · Rice
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.8
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Texas Southern
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Volume vs Efficiency
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Split Comparison
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All Games0 · Games = 1
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Texas Southern
Best efficiency game
4.2 vs Texas Southern
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 9/7 | vs Texas Southern | W 69-7 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Rice
2023-2024
Opening stop
- 2
Southern
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Rice | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Rice | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Southern | 0 | — | — | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Texas Southern
Week 2 · W 69-7
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Rice
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
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#2
2023 Regular Season · Rice
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Southern
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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