Usage Score
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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 29.2 disruption score.
Efficiency
29.2
Consistency
100
Season Value
64.6
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Seasons Tracked
- 2
- Program Path
- UCF • East Tennessee State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee
Scouting Read
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Ja'Qualin Birdsong, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State. Ja'Qualin Birdsong shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.2 disruption score.
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 0 primary output with 29.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 29.2 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 UCF, East Tennessee State.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee
Game with 0 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
0
Efficiency
29.2
Usage
—
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Tennessee
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Tennessee
Best efficiency game
29.2 vs Tennessee
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 9/6 | @ Tennessee | — | 7 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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- 1
UCF
2024
Opening stop
- 2
East Tennessee State
2025
Final stop
Season Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | UCF | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | East Tennessee State | 0 | 29.2 | — | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
Tennessee
Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Primary metric
0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.6 takeover score.
#2
Arizona
0
Primary metric
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 1.7 takeover score.
#3
Florida
0
Primary metric
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 1.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by value score
2025 Regular Season · East Tennessee State
0 primary output · 29.2 efficiency · — usage
64.6
#2
2024 Regular Season · UCF
35
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Bio, Recruit, and Data Context
Recruit Profile
4★
Class 2024 · Rating 0.895
Troup County · LaGrange, GA
- Committed To
- UCF
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Career Facts
2
Career teams
2
Seasons tracked
2
Career Tackles
Data Context
Coverage spans 2 tracked seasons, 3 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.