Justin Gardner
Second year in the Kansas State secondary, same address the whole way. The receipt on tape: 3 tackles against West Virginia, Week 11, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Two seasons at Kansas State, 10 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career Arc
2021 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (85th). Concern: tackles (0th).
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 & context
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Road1g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Collin Klein
Awards
Player standing · 2021
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
Career stats
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Kansas State | 8 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Oregon State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 10 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | -- | -- |
Signature game
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2021
W 31–23
1 SOLO · 1 TOT
With M. Knowles — 4 rush yds (1 car) · S. John Thompson — 96 yds · 0 TD · 1 INT · QBR 76.3
Game log
Game Log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-7vs Stanford | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-23vs Southern Illinois | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-17vs Nevada | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 31-37vs Oklahoma | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-12vs TCU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-10@ Kansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 34-17vs West Virginia | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Total | 8 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 4 |
How he plays
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (85th). Concern: tackles (0th).
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.