Senior safety on Marshall's 2021 roster.
6′3″ · 210 lb · Largo, FL
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.
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 983 nationally · Signed with Marshall
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety on Marshall's roster.
Brandon Drayton
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Brandon Drayton has played for two head coaches in five seasons at Marshall. His first career honor landed in 2020: All-Conference USA. One game to point at: 14 tackles, 0.5 TFL against UAB — Week 11, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Marshall, 270 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2021
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Doc Holliday → Charles Huff. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: tackles (90th percentile). Strength: solo tackles (86th 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
2021 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 8.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 6.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 5.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 8.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Gibson
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #51 at the position.
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-7@ Navy | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 20-13vs Old Dominion | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 49-21@ North Texas | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 38-0vs Florida International | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 28-13@ Florida Atlantic | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 14-21vs UAB | 14 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 49-28@ Charlotte | 7 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 21-53vs Western Kentucky | 10 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 60 | 28 | 2.5 | 0.5 | — | 2 |
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
60 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 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
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
His 2021 production profile sits closest to Marvin Grant’s 2021 season.
Matches Marvin on
Differs from Marvin on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Beau Freyler's senior season at Iowa State (2022).
Matches Beau on
Player DNA