Player Dossier

2022-2025

California

Brent Austin

DB • 5'11" • 180 lbs • San Bernardino, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brent Austin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

28

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

21

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

41

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · South Florida

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
James Madison • South Florida • California
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Miami

Player Story

Brent Austin built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from San Bernardino, CA wearing No. 4, spending time with California, James Madison, and South Florida. The clearest part of Brent...

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Brent Austin, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · South Florida. Brent Austin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
110
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
24
Touchdowns
4

Quick Answers

Brent Austin quick answers

Latest team and position
California · DB
Career Tackles
110
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 36 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · South Florida
Top game
Miami
Latest roster
No. 4 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
42 tackles · DB 200th (top 21%) · ACC 108th (top 14%) · National 842nd (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonJames Madison58-0--039.6
2023 Regular SeasonJames Madison712-0-1212.2
2024 PostseasonSouth Florida112-0-1053.5
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Florida1146-0-9253.5
2025 PostseasonCalifornia137-0--039.9
2025 Regular SeasonCalifornia13350.50-13039.9

Related Context

Brent Austin played DB for James Madison, South Florida, and California. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brent Austin recorded 110 tackles and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with South Florida.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

South Florida paired 12 primary output with 29.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across James Madison, South Florida, California.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UConn

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

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2023 Regular Season · James Madison

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

10

Usage

1.7

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

UConn

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Bucknell: 0. Virginia: 0. South Alabama: 0. Georgia Southern: 1. Old Dominion: 0. Georgia State: 0. UConn: 1

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. Bucknell: 3 by 12.5. Virginia: 3 by 12.5. South Alabama: 1 by 4.2. Georgia Southern: 3 by 22.5. Old Dominion: 1 by 4.2. Georgia State: 1 by 4.2. UConn: 0 by 10

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.1 vs Second Half
Second Half0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.1 vs First Half

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UConn

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs Georgia Southern

Result
Sat 11/11vs UConnW 44-6000010
Sat 11/4@ Georgia StateW 42-1411000
Sun 10/29vs Old DominionW 30-2710000
Sat 10/14vs Georgia SouthernW 41-1332001
Sat 9/30vs South AlabamaW 31-2311000
Sat 9/9@ VirginiaW 36-3530000
Sat 9/2vs BucknellW 38-331000

Player Story

Brent Austin story

Brent Austin built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from San Bernardino, CA wearing No. 4, spending time with California, James Madison, and South Florida. The clearest part of Brent Austin's career was his defensive production: 110 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, 3 interceptions, and 24 passes defended across 36 career games in the available record. That gives Brent Austin's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    James Madison

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    South Florida

    2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    California

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202220232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonJames Madison06.71.5
2023 Regular SeasonJames Madison2101.72
2024 PostseasonSouth Florida1229.1510
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Florida1229.150
2025 PostseasonCalifornia13.523.12.51.5
2025 Regular SeasonCalifornia13.523.12.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Miami

Week 4 · L 15-50

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 31 Virginia

Week 10 · L 21-31 · Conference game

6

Havoc Plays

65.3 takeover

Loss with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 65.3 takeover score.

#3

@ Southern Miss

Week 3 · W 49-24

3

Havoc Plays

59.7 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 59.7 takeover score.

#4

vs UAB

Week 8 · W 35-25 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

50.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 50.3 takeover score.

#5

vs UConn

Week 11 · W 44-6

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Havoc Plays

46.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 46.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · South Florida

12 primary output · 29.1 efficiency · 5 usage

53.5

#2

2024 Regular Season · South Florida

53.5

12 primary · 29.1 efficiency · 5 usage

#3

2025 Postseason · California

39.9

13.5 primary · 23.1 efficiency · 2.5 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

6

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games