Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-31vs North Texas | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 1 | L 13-45@ Oklahoma | 10 | 7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Total | 16 | 11 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
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Justin Prince
Senior defensive back on UTEP's 2022 roster.
5′10″ · 205 lb · Inglewood, CA
UTEP 2022 alumnus
Recruiting
2★
S recruit
No. 334 nationally · Joined UTEP
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back on UTEP's roster.
- Signed as a 2-star recruit to UTEP in 2018.
Justin Prince
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. 2 stars out of high school, four seasons of real snaps at UTEP since. 2020 brought the first one: All-Conference USA. The receipt on tape: 10 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Oklahoma, Week 1, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- positional archetype classification
- recruiting profile
- recognition record
- game log
How it ended
Four seasons at UTEP, 97 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
2018
- Signed with UTEP2-star out of Long Beach City College
20208 games
- All-Conference USAhonorable_mention
2023
- Entered the portal
Career arc
HS
Recruit
★★
CFB
College
UTEP
NFL
NFL Draft
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Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
1 coach2019–2022
UTEP
Played his entire career under Dana Dimel.
2022 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Dana Dimel, all run-leaning offenses — 16-29 over that span.
2019UTEP1-11HC: Dana Dimel · Run-leaning
2020UTEP3-5HC: Dana Dimel · Run-leaning
2021UTEP7-6HC: Dana Dimel · Run-leaning
2022UTEP5-7HC: Dana Dimel · Run-leaning
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).
Box-score production (6)
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 splits
Through 2 games: 8.0 TKL/g, 0.2 TFL/g, 0.0 SACK/g, 0.0 PD/g — splits start at 3 games.
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scotty Walden
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Awards
Player standing · 2022
Backup
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career stats
Game log
How he plays
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
DNA match
Player DNA
Hybrid Nickel
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
S
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Loren Strickland’s 2022 season.
84%match
Matches Loren on
Class year
Height
Tackle volume
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Rex Fleming's senior season at Maryland (2023).
Matches Rex on
Class year
Height
TFL rate
Player DNA
Players who play like Justin Prince
Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology