Player Dossier

2024-2025

Purdue

TJ Lindsey

DL • 6'3" • 310 lbs • Little Rock, AR, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

TJ Lindsey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

28

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

34

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Auburn

2425

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Auburn • Purdue
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Ball State
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9043

IMG Academy · Bradenton, FL

Committed To
Auburn
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

TJ Lindsey, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Auburn. TJ Lindsey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
7
TFL
0.5

Quick Answers

TJ Lindsey quick answers

Latest team and position
Purdue · DL
Career Tackles
7
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Auburn
Top game
Ball State
Recruit profile
4-star · IMG Academy · Auburn
High school pipeline
IMG Academy · 130 FBS recruits · 13 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 13 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
5 tackles · DL 800th (top 75%) · Big Ten 469th (top 60%) · National 3,722nd (top 60%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonAuburn12-0--040.8
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue250.50--035.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Auburn to PurdueP4 to P481.4Jan 11, 2025

TJ Lindsey played DL for Auburn and Purdue. Across 2 tracked seasons, TJ Lindsey recorded 7 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Purdue.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Auburn paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.9 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 Auburn, Purdue.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Ball State

Win with 0.5 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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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Purdue

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

12.9

Usage

3.6

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Ball State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ball State: 0.5. Southern Illinois: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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First Half0.5 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ball State

Best efficiency game

17.5 vs Ball State

Result
Sat 9/6vs Southern IllinoisW 34-1721000
Sat 8/30vs Ball StateW 31-0310.5000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Auburn

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Purdue

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonAuburn08.31.7
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue0.512.93.60.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 132 Ball State

Week 1 · W 31-0

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5

Havoc Plays

36.4 takeover

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 36.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Southern Illinois

Week 2 · W 34-17

0

Havoc Plays

8.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.9 takeover score.

#3

vs Alabama A&M

Week 1 · W 73-3

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.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Auburn

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.7 usage

40.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · Purdue

35.7

0.5 primary · 12.9 efficiency · 3.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games