Player Dossier

2025-2025

Northwestern

Alijah Jones

DB • 6'0" • 185 lbs • Baltimore, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Alijah Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

14

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern

2525

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Northwestern
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Illinois
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8525

Archbishop Spalding · Severn, MD

Committed To
Northwestern
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Alijah Jones, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern. Alijah Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
10

Quick Answers

Alijah Jones quick answers

Latest team and position
Northwestern · DB
Career Tackles
10
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Northwestern
Top game
Western Illinois
Recruit profile
3-star · Archbishop Spalding · Northwestern
High school pipeline
Archbishop Spalding · 14 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 20 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DB 567th (top 59%) · Big Ten 358th (top 46%) · National 2,877th (top 47%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern52-0--041.3
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern58-0--041.3

Related Context

Alijah Jones played DB for Northwestern. Across 1 tracked season, Alijah Jones recorded 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Northwestern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Northwestern paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Western Illinois

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 Postseason · Northwestern

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

8.3

Usage

1.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Western Illinois

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Central Michigan: 0. Western Illinois: 0. UL Monroe: 0. Michigan: 0. Minnesota: 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. Central Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Western Illinois: 4 by 16.7. UL Monroe: 1 by 4.2. Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Minnesota: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Western Illinois

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Western Illinois

Result
Fri 12/26vs Central MichiganW 34-720000
Sat 11/22vs MinnesotaW 38-3521000
Sat 11/15vs MichiganL 22-2411000
Sat 10/4vs UL MonroeW 42-711000
Fri 9/5vs Western IllinoisW 42-741000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Northwestern

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern08.31.9
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern08.31.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Western Illinois

Week 2 · W 42-7

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

17.2 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 17.2 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 70 Minnesota

Week 13 · W 38-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 100 Central Michigan

Week 1 · W 34-7 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 131 UL Monroe

Week 6 · W 42-7

0

Havoc Plays

4.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.5 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 25 Michigan

Week 12 · L 22-24 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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 Postseason · Northwestern

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.9 usage

41.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Northwestern

41.3

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games