Player Dossier

2023-2025

Sam Houston

Jalyn Stanford

DB • 5'11" • 200 lbs • Tulsa, OK, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jalyn Stanford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

23

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

22

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

31

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

2325

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Houston • Sam Houston
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8517

Jenks · Jenks, OK

Committed To
Houston
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Jalyn Stanford, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston. Jalyn Stanford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
10

Quick Answers

Jalyn Stanford quick answers

Latest team and position
Sam Houston · DB
Career Tackles
10
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
Top game
Jacksonville State
Recruit profile
3-star · Jenks · Houston
High school pipeline
Jenks · 35 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DB 576th (top 60%) · Conference USA 270th (top 49%) · National 2,935th (top 48%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonHouston00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston310-0--044

Related Context

Jalyn Stanford played DB for Houston and Sam Houston. Across 2 tracked seasons, Jalyn Stanford recorded 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Sam Houston.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Sam Houston paired 0 primary output with 13.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 13.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Houston, Sam Houston.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State

Loss 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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2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

13.9

Usage

2.2

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Jacksonville State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Kentucky: 0. Jacksonville State: 0. UTEP: 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. Western Kentucky: 2 by 8.3. Jacksonville State: 7 by 29.2. UTEP: 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 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Jacksonville State

Best efficiency game

29.2 vs Jacksonville State

Result
Wed 10/15vs UTEPL 17-3511000
Fri 10/10vs Jacksonville StateL 27-2976000
Sat 8/23@ Western KentuckyL 24-4120000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Houston

    2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Sam Houston

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20232025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonHouston0
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston013.92.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 92 Jacksonville State

Week 7 · L 27-29 · Conference game

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

21.7 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.7 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 69 Western Kentucky

Week 1 · L 24-41 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 129 UTEP

Week 8 · L 17-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss 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

2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

0 primary output · 13.9 efficiency · 2.2 usage

44

#2

2023 Regular Season · Houston

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games