Player Dossier

2012-2016

Michigan

AJ Pearson

S • 6'0" • Johns Creek, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

AJ Pearson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

8

Developing production for a safety

lowelite

Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

16

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Michigan

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Michigan
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers

AJ Pearson, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Michigan. AJ Pearson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
6

Quick Answers

AJ Pearson quick answers

Latest team and position
Michigan · S
Career Tackles
6
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 5 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Michigan
Top game
Rutgers
Latest roster
No. 18 · Class 2016
2016 Tackles rank
6 tackles · S 288th (top 75%) · Big Ten 334th (top 53%) · National 3,086th (top 55%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2012 Regular SeasonMichigan00-0--0-
2013 Regular SeasonMichigan00-0--0-
2014 Regular SeasonMichigan00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonMichigan00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonMichigan56-0--038

Related Context

AJ Pearson played S for Michigan. Across 5 tracked seasons, AJ Pearson recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Michigan.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Michigan paired 0 primary output with 5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2016 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2016 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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2016 Regular Season · Michigan

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

5

Usage

1.1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Rutgers

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UCF: 0. Penn State: 0. Rutgers: 0. Illinois: 0. Maryland: 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. UCF: 1 by 4.2. Penn State: 1 by 4.2. Rutgers: 2 by 8.3. Illinois: 1 by 4.2. Maryland: 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 = 3 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Rutgers

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Rutgers

Result
Sat 11/5vs MarylandW 59-310000
Sat 10/22vs IllinoisW 41-810000
Sat 10/8@ RutgersW 78-020000
Sat 9/24vs Penn StateW 49-1011000
Sat 9/10vs UCFW 51-1411000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Michigan

    2012-2016

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20122013201420152016
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2012 Regular SeasonMichigan0
2013 Regular SeasonMichigan00
2014 Regular SeasonMichigan00
2015 Regular SeasonMichigan00
2016 Regular SeasonMichigan051.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Rutgers

Week 6 · W 78-0 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

7.5 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.5 takeover score.

#2

vs Illinois

Week 8 · W 41-8 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5 takeover score.

#3

vs Penn State

Week 4 · W 49-10 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#4

vs UCF

Week 2 · W 51-14

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

vs Maryland

Week 10 · W 59-3 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Win 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

2016 Regular Season · Michigan

0 primary output · 5 efficiency · 1.1 usage

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#2

2012 Regular Season · Michigan

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2013 Regular Season · Michigan

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games