Senior defensive back on Kent State's 2022 roster.
6′0″ · 199 lb · Erial, NJ
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 1522 nationally · Signed with Timber Creek
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back on Kent State's roster.
Naijee Jones
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Naijee Jones has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. One game to point at: 11 tackles against Eastern Michigan — Week 12, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Kent State, 57 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2022
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Sean Lewis.
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
2022 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road2g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mark Carney
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Kent State | 18 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Rutgers | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Rutgers | 29 | 19 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -- | 1 | -- |
| 2019 | Rutgers | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 57 | 37 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2022
W 63–10
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 63-10vs Long Island University | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | L 22-39@ Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-24vs Ohio | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-27vs Ball State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 40-6@ Bowling Green | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-31vs Eastern Michigan | 11 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Total | 18 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to JoJo Evans’s 2021 season.
Matches JoJo on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Tee Denson's senior season at Jacksonville State (2024).
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Player DNA