Player Dossier

2022-2025

Oklahoma State

JK Johnson

CB • 6'0" • 185 lbs • St. Louis, MO, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

JK Johnson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

14%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

27

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

40

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · LSU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Ohio State • LSU • Oklahoma State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Baylor
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9745

DeSmet · St. Louis, MO

Committed To
Ohio State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

JK Johnson, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · LSU. JK Johnson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
20
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

JK Johnson quick answers

Latest team and position
Oklahoma State · CB
Career Tackles
20
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 10 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · LSU
Top game
Baylor
Recruit profile
4-star · DeSmet · Ohio State
High school pipeline
DeSmet · 28 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 1 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
16 tackles · CB 215th (top 46%) · Big 12 278th (top 38%) · National 2,351st (top 38%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonOhio State11-0--037.5
2023 Regular SeasonLSU00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonLSU23-0--039.2
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State716-0-2033.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Oklahoma State to Florida AtlanticP4 to G5/FCS81.4Jan 12, 2026
2025LSU to Oklahoma StateP4 to P480.7Dec 21, 2024
2023Ohio State to LSUP4 to P488.6Jan 3, 2023

JK Johnson played CB for Ohio State, LSU, and Oklahoma State. Across 4 tracked seasons, JK Johnson recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oklahoma State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

LSU paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

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 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Ohio State, LSU, Oklahoma State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Baylor

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

12.4

Usage

1.6

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

Baylor

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UT Martin: 0. Oregon: 0. Tulsa: 0. Baylor: 1. Arizona: 0. Kansas State: 1. UCF: 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. UT Martin: 1 by 4.2. Oregon: 2 by 8.3. Tulsa: 1 by 4.2. Baylor: 4 by 26.7. Arizona: 5 by 20.8. Kansas State: 2 by 18.3. UCF: 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 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 6 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Baylor

Best efficiency game

26.7 vs Baylor

Result
Sat 11/22@ UCFL 14-1710000
Sat 11/15vs Kansas StateL 6-1422001
Sat 10/4@ ArizonaL 13-4151000
Sat 9/27vs BaylorL 27-4544001
Fri 9/19vs TulsaL 12-1911000
Sat 9/6@ OregonL 3-6922000
Thu 8/28vs UT MartinW 27-711000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Ohio State

    2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    LSU

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Oklahoma State

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonOhio State04.21
2023 Regular SeasonLSU00
2024 Regular SeasonLSU06.31.40
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State212.41.62

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 71 Baylor

Week 5 · L 27-45 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 42 Kansas State

Week 12 · L 6-14 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

44.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.2 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 28 Arizona

Week 6 · L 13-41 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

15.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.8 takeover score.

#4

@ South Carolina

Week 3 · W 36-33 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

7.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.5 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 4 Oregon

Week 2 · L 3-69 · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · LSU

0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

39.2

#2

2022 Regular Season · Ohio State

37.5

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

33.8

2 primary · 12.4 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games