Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025North Alabama
BJ Diakite
DE • 6'3" • 245 lbs • Birmingham, AL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
BJ Diakite shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
39
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
31
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
66
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Alabama
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Vanderbilt • North Alabama
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UNLV
Player Story
BJ Diakite built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Birmingham, AL, spending time with North Alabama and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of BJ Diakite's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Vanderbilt
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
BJ Diakite, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Alabama. BJ Diakite shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 35
- TFL
- 5
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
BJ Diakite quick answers
- Latest team and position
- North Alabama · DE
- Career Tackles
- 35
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 18 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · North Alabama
- Top game
- UNLV
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Pinson Valley · Vanderbilt
- High school pipeline
- Pinson Valley · 20 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 0 · Senior
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 6 | 12 | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 45.6 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 9 | 20 | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 41.2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 2 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Alabama | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 54.2 |
Related Context
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BJ Diakite played DE for Vanderbilt and North Alabama. Across 4 tracked seasons, BJ Diakite recorded 35 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Vanderbilt.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
North Alabama paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.4 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 Vanderbilt, North Alabama.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UNLV
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
15.4
Usage
4.2
Consistency
14.8
Best Game by takeover score
UNLV
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Alabama A&M: 0. Hawai'i: 0. UNLV: 2.5. Kentucky: 1. Missouri: 1. Florida: 0. Georgia: 0. South Carolina: 0. Tennessee: 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. Alabama A&M: 1 by 4.2. Hawai'i: 1 by 4.2. UNLV: 6 by 50. Kentucky: 3 by 22.5. Missouri: 5 by 30.8. Florida: 1 by 4.2. Georgia: 1 by 4.2. South Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Tennessee: 1 by 14.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.8 · Games = 7 · +0.8 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
UNLV
Best efficiency game
50 vs UNLV
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/25 | @ Tennessee | L 24-48 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/11 | @ South Carolina | L 6-47 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/14 | vs Georgia | L 20-37 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | @ Florida | L 14-38 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/30 | vs Missouri | L 21-38 | 5 | 3 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/23 | vs Kentucky | L 28-45 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/16 | @ UNLVSplash game | L 37-40 | 6 | 1 | — | 1.50 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/2 | vs Alabama A&M | W 47-13 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/26 | vs Hawai'i | W 35-28 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
BJ Diakite story
BJ Diakite built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Birmingham, AL, spending time with North Alabama and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of BJ Diakite's career was his defensive production: 35 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 18 career games in the available record. That gives BJ Diakite's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
Vanderbilt
2022-2024
Opening stop
- 2
North Alabama
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 5.5 | 17.5 | 6.5 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 5.5 | 15.4 | 4.2 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 0 | 6.3 | 1.2 | -5.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Alabama | 0 | 8.3 | — | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ UNLV
Week 3 · L 37-40
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5
Havoc Plays
83.3 takeover
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 83.3 takeover score.
#2
@ Northern Illinois
Week 3 · W 38-28
3.5
Havoc Plays
82.5 takeover
Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 82.5 takeover score.
#3
@ Alabama
Week 4 · L 3-55 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
48.8 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 48.8 takeover score.
#4
vs Kentucky
Week 4 · L 28-45 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
48.6 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.6 takeover score.
#5
vs Missouri
Week 5 · L 21-38 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
47.2 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · North Alabama
0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · — usage
54.2
#2
2022 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
45.6
5.5 primary · 17.5 efficiency · 6.5 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
41.2
5.5 primary · 15.4 efficiency · 4.2 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
3
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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