Player Dossier

2025-2025

Toledo

DJ Kelly

CB • 6'1" • 185 lbs • Allentown, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

DJ Kelly shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

47

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

28

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

65

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Toledo

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Toledo
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Miami (OH)

Player Story

DJ Kelly built his college career in 2025 as a cornerback from Allentown, PA wearing No. 27, spending time with Toledo. The clearest part of DJ Kelly's career was his defensive production: 10 tackles, 1 tackle for...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8517

St. Frances Academy · Baltimore, MD

Committed To
Toledo
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

DJ Kelly, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Toledo. DJ Kelly shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
10
TFL
1
Sacks
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

DJ Kelly quick answers

Latest team and position
Toledo · CB
Career Tackles
10
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 6 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Toledo
Top game
Miami (OH)
Recruit profile
3-star · St. Frances Academy · Toledo
High school pipeline
St. Frances Academy · 58 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 27 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
10 tackles · CB 263rd (top 56%) · Mid-American 268th (top 47%) · National 2,911th (top 47%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 Regular SeasonToledo61011-1036

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Toledo to James MadisonG5/FCS to G5/FCS21.2Jan 11, 2026

DJ Kelly played CB for Toledo. Across 1 tracked season, DJ Kelly recorded 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Toledo.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Toledo paired 4 primary output with 13.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 13.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Miami (OH)

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Toledo

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

13.6

Usage

2.3

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Miami (OH)

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Kentucky: 0. Morgan State: 0. Bowling Green: 0. Kent State: 0. Miami (OH): 3. Ball State: 1

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. Western Kentucky: 2 by 8.3. Morgan State: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 1 by 4.2. Kent State: 1 by 4.2. Miami (OH): 2 by 38.3. Ball State: 3 by 22.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 5 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Miami (OH)

Best efficiency game

38.3 vs Miami (OH)

Result
Sat 11/22vs Ball StateW 38-9330010
Thu 11/13@ Miami (OH)Splash gameW 24-322111
Sat 10/18vs Kent StateW 45-1011000
Sat 10/11@ Bowling GreenL 23-2810000
Sat 9/13vs Morgan StateW 60-010000
Sat 9/6vs Western KentuckyW 45-2120000

Player Story

DJ Kelly story

DJ Kelly built his college career in 2025 as a cornerback from Allentown, PA wearing No. 27, spending time with Toledo. The clearest part of DJ Kelly's career was his defensive production: 10 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 sack, and 1 interception across 6 career games in the available record. That gives DJ Kelly'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.

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    Toledo

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 Regular SeasonToledo413.62.3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 82 Miami (OH)

Week 12 · W 24-3 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

63.6 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 63.6 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 132 Ball State

Week 13 · W 38-9 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

28.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 28.6 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 69 Western Kentucky

Week 2 · W 45-21

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Havoc Plays

6.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.

#4

vs Morgan State

Week 3 · W 60-0

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Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 130 Kent State

Week 8 · W 45-10 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Toledo

4 primary output · 13.6 efficiency · 2.3 usage

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Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games