Senior safety on TCU's 2023 roster.
6′2″ · 200 lb · Newton, 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.
Recruiting
ATH recruit
No. 1035 nationally · Signed with Newton
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety on TCU's roster.
Josh Foster
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Josh Foster has been at TCU through two head coaches in five seasons. The receipt on tape: 6 tackles against West Virginia, Week 5, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at TCU, 104 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Gary Patterson → Sonny Dykes. 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
Concern: tackles for loss (7th 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
2023 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Dykes
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #506 at the position.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2023
W 34–17
vs SMU
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 42-45vs Colorado | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 36-13@ Houston | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-17vs SMU | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-24vs West Virginia | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 6 | L 14-27@ Iowa State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 44-11vs BYU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-17vs Baylor | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 45-69@ Oklahoma | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 22 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
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
22 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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 2023 production profile sits closest to Josh Minkins’s 2023 season.
Matches Josh on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Tahj Ra-El's graduate season at Memphis (2024).
Matches Tahj on
Player DNA