Senior cornerback on SMU's 2022 roster.
6′0″ · 180 lb · Missouri City, TX
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Ar'mani Johnson
Doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play. Ar'mani Johnson has been at SMU through three head coaches in four seasons. The receipt on tape: 6 tackles against Houston, Week 10, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at SMU, 112 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Sonny Dykes, Jim Leavitt, and Rhett Lashlee. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (85th percentile). Concern: sacks (24th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 4.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rhett Lashlee
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2022
W 45–16
vs Lamar
1 PD · 2 SOLO · 2 TOT
Dominant 29-point win at home against Lamar.
With T. Mordecai — 212 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 63.1 · R. Bujcevski — 46 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 52 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-10@ North Texas | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-16vs Lamar | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 27-34@ Maryland | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 34-42vs TCU | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 19-41@ UCF | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 40-34vs Navy | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-29vs Cincinnati | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 77-63vs Houston | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 34-31vs Memphis | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 31 | 22 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 4 |
Play style
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
31 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
Player DNA
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Jordan Mahoney’s 2021 season.
Matches Jordan on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Damarius McGhee's senior season at Florida Atlantic (2025).
Matches Damarius on
Player DNA