Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2013-2016Duke
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.
Impact Production
84
High-end production for a corner
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Reliability
59
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
83
High-upside career profile
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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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- 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
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 Regular Season | Duke | 3 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Duke | 2 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 41.5 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Duke | 3 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 47.4 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Duke | 8 | 23 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 11 | 0 | 50.2 |
Related Context
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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
2016 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 28.9 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: Northwestern
Loss with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2016 Regular Season · Duke
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
1.7
Efficiency
28.9
Usage
2.9
Consistency
48
Best Game by takeover score
Northwestern
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. North Carolina Central: 2. Wake Forest: 0.5. Northwestern: 5. Notre Dame: 3. Virginia: 1. Louisville: 0. Georgia Tech: 0. Virginia Tech: 2
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 versus efficiency scatter chart. North Carolina Central: 0 by 20. Wake Forest: 3 by 17.5. Northwestern: 4 by 66.7. Notre Dame: 5 by 50.8. Virginia: 4 by 26.7. Louisville: 1 by 4.2. Georgia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Virginia Tech: 5 by 40.8
Split Comparison
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Wins2.5 · Games = 2 · +1.1 vs Losses
Losses1.4 · Games = 6 · -1.1 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Northwestern
Best efficiency game
66.7 vs Northwestern
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/5 | vs Virginia TechSplash game | L 21-24 | 5 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | — | — |
| Sat 10/29 | @ Georgia Tech | L 35-38 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 10/14 | @ Louisville | L 14-24 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/1 | vs Virginia | L 20-34 | 4 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/24 | @ Notre DameSplash game | W 38-35 | 5 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | — | — |
| Sun 9/18 | @ NorthwesternSplash game | L 13-24 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | — |
| Sat 9/10 | vs Wake Forest | L 14-24 | 3 | 2 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/3 | vs North Carolina CentralSplash game | W 49-6 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
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
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 Regular Season | Duke | 4 | 26.7 | — | — |
| 2014 Regular Season | Duke | 3 | 30 | — | -1 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Duke | 3 | 20 | — | 0 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Duke | 13.5 | 28.9 | 2.9 | 10.5 |
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.
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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
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