Senior safety on UAB's 2021 roster.
5′11″ · 205 lb · Florence, AL
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.
The story
4 safety on UAB's roster.
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 3114 nationally · Signed with UAB
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonDy'jonn Turner
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. He arrived as a 2-star recruit and has four seasons of production at UAB behind him. 2020 brought the first one: All-Conference USA. The receipt: 7 tackles against UTEP — Week 13, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at UAB, 128 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 · 2018–2021
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Bill Clark.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Bill Clark — 35-15 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (86th percentile). Concern: qb hurries (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
2021 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 6.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Alex Mortensen
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
Two-star recruit. Now #142 at the position.
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-0@ Jacksonville State | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-56@ Georgia | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-0@ Southern Miss | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-30vs Rice | 6 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 52-38vs Louisiana Tech | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 21-14@ Marshall | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 31-34@ UTSA | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-25vs UTEP | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Total | 39 | 19 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 3 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
39 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1.5 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
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2021 production profile sits closest to Jalen Catalon’s 2021 season.
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As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jalen Catalon's senior season at Arkansas (2021).
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Player DNA