Usage / Role
17%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025SMU
DJ Warner
DE • 6'4" • 231 lbs • Phoenix, AZ, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
DJ Warner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
43
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
24
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
69
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · SMU
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Kansas • SMU
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Boston College
Player Story
DJ Warner built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive end from Phoenix, AZ wearing No. 5, spending time with Kansas and SMU. The clearest part of DJ Warner's career was his defensive production: 8...
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- Committed To
- Kansas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
DJ Warner, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · SMU. DJ Warner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.1 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 8
- TFL
- 2
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 5
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
DJ Warner quick answers
- Latest team and position
- SMU · DE
- Career Tackles
- 8
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · SMU
- Top game
- Boston College
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Desert Edge · Kansas
- High school pipeline
- Desert Edge · 15 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 5 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 6 tackles · DE 192nd (top 68%) · ACC 435th (top 55%) · National 3,440th (top 56%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 3 | 2 | - | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 31.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | SMU | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 47.8 |
Related Context
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DJ Warner played DE for Kansas and SMU. Across 2 tracked seasons, DJ Warner recorded 8 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with SMU.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
SMU paired 8 primary output with 13.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 13.1 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 Kansas, SMU.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Boston College
Win with 3 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 · SMU
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
13.1
Usage
2.9
Consistency
54.2
Best Game by takeover score
Boston College
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. East Texas A&M: 1. Baylor: 0. Missouri State: 1. Stanford: 2. Clemson: 1. Wake Forest: 0. Boston College: 3. California: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. East Texas A&M: 0 by 10. Baylor: 1 by 4.2. Missouri State: 0 by 10. Stanford: 0 by 20. Clemson: 1 by 14.2. Wake Forest: 1 by 4.2. Boston College: 2 by 38.3. California: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.6 · Games = 5 · +1.6 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -1.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Boston College
Best efficiency game
38.3 vs Boston College
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/30 | @ California | L 35-38 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ Boston CollegeSplash game | W 45-13 | 2 | 1 | — | 1.50 | 1.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Wake Forest | L 12-13 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Clemson | W 35-24 | 1 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs StanfordSplash game | W 34-10 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | @ Missouri State | W 28-10 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Baylor | L 45-48 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 8/31 | vs East Texas A&M | W 42-13 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
DJ Warner story
DJ Warner built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive end from Phoenix, AZ wearing No. 5, spending time with Kansas and SMU. The clearest part of DJ Warner's career was his defensive production: 8 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 11 career games in the available record. That gives DJ Warner'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
Kansas
2024
Opening stop
- 2
SMU
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 2 | 9.5 | 3.3 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | SMU | 8 | 13.1 | 2.9 | 6 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 97 Boston College
Week 11 · W 45-13 · Conference game
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
69.7 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 69.7 takeover score.
#2
vs Lindenwood
Week 1 · W 48-3
1
Havoc Plays
50.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.6 takeover score.
#3
@ Illinois
Week 2 · L 17-23
1
Havoc Plays
49.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.5 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 112 Stanford
Week 7 · W 34-10 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
42.8 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 42.8 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 34 Clemson
Week 8 · W 35-24 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
29.2 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 29.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · SMU
8 primary output · 13.1 efficiency · 2.9 usage
47.8
#2
2024 Regular Season · Kansas
31.9
2 primary · 9.5 efficiency · 3.3 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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