Player Dossier

2022-2025

Akron

CJ Murphy

DL • 6'2" • 240 lbs • Bryn Mawr, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

CJ Murphy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

23

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

30

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Akron

22232425

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
North Carolina • Akron
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Nebraska

CJ Murphy, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Akron. CJ Murphy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4
TFL
1

Quick Answers

CJ Murphy quick answers

Latest team and position
Akron · DL
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 3 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Akron
Top game
Nebraska
Latest roster
No. 94 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DL 812th (top 76%) · Mid-American 354th (top 62%) · National 3,789th (top 62%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonAkron3410--043.8

Related Context

CJ Murphy played DL for North Carolina and Akron. Across 4 tracked seasons, CJ Murphy recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Akron.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Akron paired 1 primary output with 8.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.9 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 North Carolina, Akron.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Nebraska

Loss with 1 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 · Akron

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

8.9

Usage

6.6

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Nebraska

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Nebraska: 1. Kent State: 0. Bowling Green: 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. Nebraska: 2 by 18.3. Kent State: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Nebraska

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Nebraska

Result
Wed 11/19@ Bowling GreenW 19-1611000
Wed 11/12vs Kent StateL 35-4211000
Sat 9/6@ NebraskaL 0-6822100

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    North Carolina

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Akron

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina0
2023 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina00
2024 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina00
2025 Regular SeasonAkron18.96.61

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 46 Nebraska

Week 2 · L 0-68

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

72.8 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 72.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 130 Kent State

Week 12 · L 35-42 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 113 Bowling Green

Week 13 · W 19-16 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Akron

1 primary output · 8.9 efficiency · 6.6 usage

43.8

#2

2022 Regular Season · North Carolina

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · North Carolina

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games