Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Kentucky
DJ Waller Jr.
DB • 6'3" • 203 lbs • Youngstown, OH, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
DJ Waller Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a defensive back
lowelite
Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Michigan • Kentucky
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Auburn
3★
- Committed To
- Michigan
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
DJ Waller Jr., DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky. DJ Waller Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 25
- Passes defended
- 3
Quick Answers
DJ Waller Jr. quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kentucky · DB
- Career Tackles
- 25
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 13 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
- Top game
- Auburn
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Chaney · Michigan
- High school pipeline
- Chaney · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 5 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 1 tackles · DB 907th (top 94%) · SEC 635th (top 84%) · National 5,230th (top 85%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Michigan | 6 | 11 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 19.5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kentucky | 6 | 13 | - | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 34.4 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kentucky | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37 |
Related Context
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DJ Waller Jr. played DB for Michigan and Kentucky. Across 3 tracked seasons, DJ Waller Jr. recorded 25 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Kentucky.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Kentucky paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Michigan, Kentucky.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Toledo
Win 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 · Kentucky
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.8
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Toledo
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All Games0 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Toledo
Best efficiency game
4.2 vs Toledo
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 8/30 | vs Toledo | W 24-16 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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- 1
Michigan
2023
Opening stop
- 2
Kentucky
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Michigan | 1 | 9.3 | 1.6 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kentucky | 2 | 12.4 | 1.7 | 1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kentucky | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | -2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Auburn
Week 9 · L 10-24 · Conference game
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
49.7 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.7 takeover score.
#2
@ Michigan State
Week 8 · W 49-0 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
44.2 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.2 takeover score.
#3
@ Ole Miss
Week 5 · W 20-17 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
43.9 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.9 takeover score.
#4
vs UNLV
Week 2 · W 35-7
0
Havoc Plays
14.5 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.5 takeover score.
#5
vs Georgia
Week 3 · L 12-13 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
8.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
37
#2
2024 Regular Season · Kentucky
34.4
2 primary · 12.4 efficiency · 1.7 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Michigan
19.5
1 primary · 9.3 efficiency · 1.6 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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