Player Dossier

2024-2025

Michigan State

Justin Denson Jr.

DB • 6'2" • 194 lbs • Providence, RI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Justin Denson Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

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: 2024 Regular Season · Michigan State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Michigan State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8747

Wyoming Seminary Upper School · Kingston, PA

Committed To
Michigan State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Justin Denson Jr., DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Michigan State. Justin Denson Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
15

Quick Answers

Justin Denson Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Michigan State · DB
Career Tackles
15
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 7 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Michigan State
Top game
Oregon
Recruit profile
3-star · Wyoming Seminary Upper School · Michigan State
High school pipeline
Wyoming Seminary Upper School · 7 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 12 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
2 tackles · DB 851st (top 88%) · Big Ten 586th (top 75%) · National 4,601st (top 75%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State513-0--042.4
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan State22-0--037.1

Related Context

Justin Denson Jr. played DB for Michigan State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Justin Denson Jr. recorded 15 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Michigan State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Michigan State paired 0 primary output with 10.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan

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 · Michigan State

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Western Michigan

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Michigan: 0. Youngstown State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Western Michigan

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Youngstown State

Result
Sat 9/13vs Youngstown StateW 41-2410000
Fri 8/29vs Western MichiganW 23-611000

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Michigan State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State010.82
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan State04.20.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Oregon

Week 6 · L 10-31 · Conference game

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

13.9 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Rutgers

Week 14 · L 14-41 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

#3

vs Ohio State

Week 5 · L 7-38 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

#4

vs Indiana

Week 10 · L 10-47 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

7.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.8 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 78 Western Michigan

Week 1 · W 23-6

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Michigan State

0 primary output · 10.8 efficiency · 2 usage

42.4

#2

2025 Regular Season · Michigan State

37.1

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games