Player Dossier

2022-2025

UCF

DJ Bell

DB • 6'2" • 180 lbs • Pensacola, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

DJ Bell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

19%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

27

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

32

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

36

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Memphis

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Memphis • UCF
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas State

Player Story

DJ Bell built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pensacola, FL wearing No. 5, spending time with Memphis and UCF. The clearest part of DJ Bell's career was his defensive production: 53...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8215

Pensacola · Pensacola, FL

Committed To
Memphis
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

DJ Bell, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Memphis. DJ Bell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
53
TFL
2
Passes defended
12
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

DJ Bell quick answers

Latest team and position
UCF · DB
Career Tackles
53
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 21 games
Best season
2023 Postseason · Memphis
Top game
Arkansas State
Recruit profile
3-star · Pensacola · Memphis
High school pipeline
Pensacola · 23 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 5 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
17 tackles · DB 470th (top 49%) · Big 12 267th (top 37%) · National 2,260th (top 37%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonMemphis00-0--0-
2023 PostseasonMemphis71-0--054.7
2023 Regular SeasonMemphis71920-3254.7
2024 Regular SeasonMemphis516-0-5051.2
2025 Regular SeasonUCF917-0-4026.7

Related Context

DJ Bell played DB for Memphis and UCF. Across 4 tracked seasons, DJ Bell recorded 53 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Memphis.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Memphis paired 6 primary output with 20.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.3 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Memphis, UCF.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

Win 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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2025 Regular Season · UCF

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

12.3

Usage

1.5

Consistency

14.8

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Jacksonville State: 1. North Carolina A&T: 1. North Carolina: 0. Kansas: 0. Baylor: 0. Houston: 1. Texas Tech: 0. Oklahoma State: 1. BYU: 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. Jacksonville State: 0 by 10. North Carolina A&T: 1 by 14.2. North Carolina: 2 by 8.3. Kansas: 2 by 8.3. Baylor: 2 by 8.3. Houston: 1 by 14.2. Texas Tech: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma State: 3 by 22.5. BYU: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 5 · -0.6 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

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs Oklahoma State

Result
Sat 11/29@ BYUL 21-4153000
Sat 11/22vs Oklahoma StateW 17-1432001
Sat 11/15@ Texas TechL 9-4811000
Sat 11/8vs HoustonL 27-3010001
Sat 11/1@ BaylorL 3-3021000
Sat 10/4vs KansasL 20-2721000
Sat 9/20vs North CarolinaW 34-922000
Sat 9/6vs North Carolina A&TW 68-711001
Thu 8/28vs Jacksonville StateW 17-1000001

Player Story

DJ Bell story

DJ Bell built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pensacola, FL wearing No. 5, spending time with Memphis and UCF. The clearest part of DJ Bell's career was his defensive production: 53 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 2 interceptions, and 12 passes defended across 21 career games in the available record. That gives DJ Bell'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

    Memphis

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UCF

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonMemphis0
2023 PostseasonMemphis620.53.96
2023 Regular SeasonMemphis620.53.90
2024 Regular SeasonMemphis625.33.70
2025 Regular SeasonUCF412.31.5-2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Arkansas State

Week 2 · W 37-3

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

70.6 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.

#2

@ UTSA

Week 10 · L 36-44 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

60.5 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 60.5 takeover score.

#3

vs Charlotte

Week 9 · W 33-28 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

57.5 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 121 Oklahoma State

Week 13 · W 17-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#5

vs Tulane

Week 7 · L 21-31 · 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.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Postseason · Memphis

6 primary output · 20.5 efficiency · 3.9 usage

54.7

#2

2023 Regular Season · Memphis

54.7

6 primary · 20.5 efficiency · 3.9 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Memphis

51.2

6 primary · 25.3 efficiency · 3.7 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games