Player Dossier

2013-2016

Duke

Breon Borders

CB • 6'0" • Statesville, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Breon Borders shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a corner

lowelite

Reliability

95

Regular contributor with several takeover games

lowhigh

Star Power

86

Elite ceiling indicators

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Duke

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Duke
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida State

Player Story

Breon Borders built his college career from 2013 through 2016 as a cornerback from Statesville, NC wearing No. 31, spending time with Duke. The clearest part of Breon Borders' career was his defensive production: 23...

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3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2013 · Rating 0.7978

Statesville · Statesville, NC

Committed To
Duke
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2013

Breon Borders, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Duke. Breon Borders shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
23
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
11

Quick Answers

Breon Borders quick answers

Latest team and position
Duke · CB
Career Tackles
23
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Duke
Top game
Florida State
Recruit profile
3-star · Statesville · Duke
High school pipeline
Statesville · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 31 · Class 2016
2016 Tackles rank
23 tackles · CB 151st (top 45%) · ACC 176th (top 29%) · National 1,769th (top 32%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2013 Regular SeasonDuke30-0--038
2014 Regular SeasonDuke20-0--041.5
2015 Regular SeasonDuke30-0--047.4
2016 Regular SeasonDuke8230.50-11050.2

Related Context

Breon Borders played CB for Duke. Across 4 tracked seasons, Breon Borders recorded 23 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Duke.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Duke paired 13.5 primary output with 28.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2014 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 30 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2016 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Syracuse

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2014 Regular Season · Duke

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

1.5

Efficiency

30

Usage

Consistency

72.2

Best Game by takeover score

Syracuse

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Syracuse: 2. Virginia Tech: 1

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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Wins2 · Games = 1 · +1 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 1 · -1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Syracuse

Best efficiency game

40 vs Syracuse

Result
Sat 11/15vs Virginia TechL 16-171
Sat 11/8@ SyracuseSplash gameW 27-102

Player Story

Breon Borders story

Breon Borders built his college career from 2013 through 2016 as a cornerback from Statesville, NC wearing No. 31, spending time with Duke. The clearest part of Breon Borders' career was his defensive production: 23 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, 12 interceptions, and 11 passes defended across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with Duke. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Breon Borders' production has multiple signals. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Duke.

The arc is straightforward: Breon Borders moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Duke

    2013-2016

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2013201420152016
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2013 Regular SeasonDuke426.7
2014 Regular SeasonDuke330-1
2015 Regular SeasonDuke3200
2016 Regular SeasonDuke13.528.92.910.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Florida State

Week 15 · L 7-45 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

70 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70 takeover score.

#2

@ Syracuse

Week 11 · W 27-10 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

70 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70 takeover score.

#3

@ Northwestern

Week 3 · L 13-24

5

Havoc Plays

68.1 takeover

Loss with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 68.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Wake Forest

Week 13 · W 27-21 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#5

@ Virginia

Week 12 · L 34-42 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Regular Season · Duke

13.5 primary output · 28.9 efficiency · 2.9 usage

50.2

#2

2015 Regular Season · Duke

47.4

3 primary · 20 efficiency · usage

#3

2014 Regular Season · Duke

41.5

3 primary · 30 efficiency · usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

6

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games