Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2025-2025Kent State
Derrick Jackson
DB • 5'11" • 180 lbs • Detroit, MI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Derrick Jackson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
45
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
46
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
57
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kent State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 1
- Program Path
- Kent State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Buffalo
Player Story
Derrick Jackson built his college career in 2025 as a defensive back from Detroit, MI wearing No. 31, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Derrick Jackson's career was his defensive production: 48...
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- Committed To
- Kent State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2025
Derrick Jackson, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kent State. Derrick Jackson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 48
- TFL
- 0.5
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Derrick Jackson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kent State · DB
- Career Tackles
- 48
- Tracked sample
- 1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Kent State
- Top game
- Buffalo
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Cass Technical · Kent State
- High school pipeline
- Cass Technical · 77 FBS recruits · 10 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 31 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 48 tackles · DB 154th (top 16%) · Mid-American 68th (top 12%) · National 663rd (top 11%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Regular Season | Kent State | 11 | 48 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 41.8 |
Related Context
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Derrick Jackson played DB for Kent State. Across 1 tracked season, Derrick Jackson recorded 48 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kent State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Kent State paired 3.5 primary output with 21.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 21.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Buffalo
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Kent State
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
21.4
Usage
4
Consistency
12.1
Best Game by takeover score
Buffalo
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Merrimack: 0. Buffalo: 1. Florida State: 0. Oklahoma: 0.5. Massachusetts: 0. Toledo: 0. Bowling Green: 0. Ball State: 1. Akron: 1. Central Michigan: 0. Northern Illinois: 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. Merrimack: 2 by 8.3. Buffalo: 3 by 22.5. Florida State: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma: 8 by 38.3. Massachusetts: 5 by 20.8. Toledo: 4 by 16.7. Bowling Green: 10 by 41.7. Ball State: 5 by 30.8. Akron: 3 by 22.5. Central Michigan: 4 by 16.7. Northern Illinois: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0.2 · Games = 5 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Buffalo
Best efficiency game
41.7 vs Bowling Green
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/28 | @ Northern Illinois | W 35-31 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 11/20 | vs Central Michigan | L 16-28 | 4 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Wed 11/12 | @ Akron | W 42-35 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Thu 11/6 | @ Ball State | L 13-17 | 5 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Bowling Green10+ tackles | W 24-21 | 10 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Toledo | L 10-45 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs Massachusetts | W 42-6 | 5 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Oklahoma | L 0-44 | 8 | 5 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Florida State | L 10-66 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Buffalo | L 28-31 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Merrimack | W 21-17 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Derrick Jackson story
Derrick Jackson built his college career in 2025 as a defensive back from Detroit, MI wearing No. 31, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Derrick Jackson's career was his defensive production: 48 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, 1 interception, and 2 passes defended across 11 career games in the available record. That gives Derrick Jackson's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
Kent State
2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Regular Season | Kent State | 3.5 | 21.4 | 4 | — |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 95 Buffalo
Week 3 · L 28-31 · Conference game
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
66.7 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 66.7 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 132 Ball State
Week 11 · L 13-17 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
61.4 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.4 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 14 Oklahoma
Week 6 · L 0-44 · Ranked opponent
0.5
Havoc Plays
51.9 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 51.9 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 117 Akron
Week 12 · W 42-35 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
45.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 45.6 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 113 Bowling Green
Week 9 · W 24-21 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
29.7 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 29.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Kent State
3.5 primary output · 21.4 efficiency · 4 usage
41.8
Milestones
2
Impact games
0
Splash games
1
10+ tackle games
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