Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2024Ball State
AJ Taylor
DB • 5'11" • 190 lbs • Saint Louis, MO, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
AJ Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
32
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
49
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
33
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Ball State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Ball State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Northern Illinois
AJ Taylor, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Ball State. AJ Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 12
- TFL
- 0.5
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
AJ Taylor quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Ball State · DB
- Career Tackles
- 12
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Ball State
- Top game
- Northern Illinois
- Latest roster
- No. 16 · Junior
- 2024 Tackles rank
- 11 tackles · DB 564th (top 58%) · Mid-American 232nd (top 44%) · National 2,737th (top 45%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Ball State | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Ball State | 4 | 11 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 45.3 |
Related Context
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AJ Taylor played DB for Ball State. Across 2 tracked seasons, AJ Taylor recorded 12 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Ball State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Ball State paired 1.5 primary output with 15.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Northern Illinois
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 75th percentile of the selected season.
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2024 Regular Season · Ball State
Games
4
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
15.2
Usage
3.2
Consistency
38.9
Best Game by takeover score
Missouri State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Missouri State: 1. Central Michigan: 0. Vanderbilt: 0. Northern Illinois: 0.5
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. Missouri State: 1 by 14.2. Central Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Vanderbilt: 6 by 25. Northern Illinois: 3 by 17.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.8 · Games = 2 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -0.8 vs Wins
Game Log
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4 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Northern Illinois
Best efficiency game
25 vs Vanderbilt
Career Arc
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Ball State
2023-2024
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20232024
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Ball State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Ball State | 1.5 | 15.2 | 3.2 | 1.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Northern Illinois
Week 9 · W 25-23 · Conference game
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5
Havoc Plays
40.8 takeover
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 40.8 takeover score.
#2
vs Missouri State
Week 2 · W 42-34
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Havoc Plays
40.8 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.8 takeover score.
#3
@ Vanderbilt
Week 8 · L 14-24
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Havoc Plays
20.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 20.3 takeover score.
#4
@ Central Michigan
Week 4 · L 34-37 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
4.2 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.
#5
vs Georgia Southern
Week 4 · L 3-40
0
Havoc Plays
3.1 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Ball State
1.5 primary output · 15.2 efficiency · 3.2 usage
45.3
#2
2023 Regular Season · Ball State
36.4
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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