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Player Dossier
2024-2025East Tennessee State
Ja'Qualin Birdsong
LB • 6'3" • 202 lbs • Roanoke, AL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Ja'Qualin Birdsong shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 39.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
39
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
75
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- UCF • East Tennessee State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee
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- Committed To
- UCF
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Ja'Qualin Birdsong, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State. Ja'Qualin Birdsong shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 39.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 2
Quick Answers
Ja'Qualin Birdsong quick answers
- Latest team and position
- East Tennessee State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 2
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State
- Top game
- Tennessee
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Troup County · UCF
- High school pipeline
- Troup County · 17 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 22 · Freshman
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | UCF | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | East Tennessee State | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 79.7 |
Related Context
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Ja'Qualin Birdsong played LB for UCF and East Tennessee State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Ja'Qualin Birdsong recorded 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UCF.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
East Tennessee State paired 1 primary output with 39.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 39.2 efficiency.
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Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
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Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across UCF, East Tennessee State.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee
Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
39.2
Usage
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Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Tennessee
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All Games1 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Tennessee
Best efficiency game
39.2 vs Tennessee
| Result | |||||||||||
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| Sat 9/6 | @ Tennessee | — | 7 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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UCF
2024
Opening stop
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East Tennessee State
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
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| 2024 Regular Season | UCF | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | East Tennessee State | 1 | 39.2 | — | 1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 19 Tennessee
Week 2 · Ranked opponent
Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
69.6 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 69.6 takeover score.
#2
vs Arizona
Week 10 · W 56-12 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#3
@ Florida
Week 6 · L 13-24
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Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State
1 primary output · 39.2 efficiency · — usage
79.7
#2
2024 Regular Season · UCF
37.2
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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