Player Dossier

2024-2025

Oregon State

Tyjai Hopper

DB • 6'1" • 192 lbs • Alpharetta, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tyjai Hopper shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Oregon State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
James Madison • Oregon State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Sam Houston

Tyjai Hopper, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Oregon State. Tyjai Hopper shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4

Quick Answers

Tyjai Hopper quick answers

Latest team and position
Oregon State · DB
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 4 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Oregon State
Top game
Sam Houston
High school pipeline
Alpharetta · 23 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DB 763rd (top 79%) · Pac-12 63rd (top 63%) · National 3,987th (top 65%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonJames Madison00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonOregon State44-0--037.2

Related Context

Tyjai Hopper played DB for James Madison and Oregon State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Tyjai Hopper recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oregon State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Oregon State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across James Madison, Oregon State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Sam Houston

Loss with 0 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 · Oregon State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Sam Houston

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Fresno State: 0. Sam Houston: 0. Tulsa: 0. Washington State: 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. Fresno State: 1 by 4.2. Sam Houston: 1 by 4.2. Tulsa: 1 by 4.2. Washington State: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Sam Houston

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Washington State

Result
Sat 11/29@ Washington StateL 8-3210000
Sat 11/15@ TulsaL 14-3111000
Sun 11/9vs Sam HoustonL 17-2110000
Sat 9/6vs Fresno StateL 27-3610000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    James Madison

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Oregon State

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonJames Madison0
2025 Regular SeasonOregon State04.20.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 135 Sam Houston

Week 11 · L 17-21

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

4.7 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.7 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 66 Fresno State

Week 2 · L 27-36

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.

#3

@ No. 61 Washington State

Week 14 · L 8-32 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 104 Tulsa

Week 12 · L 14-31

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Oregon State

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

37.2

#2

2024 Regular Season · James Madison

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games