Taye Seymore

Senior safety on North Texas's 2026 roster.

S · North Texas · Sr. · #2

5′11″ · 206 lb · Fort Walton Beach, FL · South Atlanta HS

CFB Index 41 · #354 of 537 safetiesMedium confidenceTransferred Auburn → North Texas for 2026

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Recruiting

3★

LB recruit

No. 1049 nationally · Signed with Georgia Tech

Last played in 2024.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Senior safety on North Texas's 2026 roster.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Georgia Tech in 2023.
Transferred from Auburn to North Texas in 2026.

The full story, with sources

How he projects

Grades highest in speed and play recognition.

The full scouting read

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Taye Seymore

S · North Texas · Sr · #2

Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Auburn to North Texas — the move that set up everything since. The receipt on tape: 10 tackles against Syracuse, Week 2, 2024.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Georgia Tech	45	28	3.0	2	--	--
2023	Georgia Tech	3	1	0.0	--	--	--
Career		48	29	3.0	2	--	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 24-21vs Florida State	1	1	1.0	—	0
Wk 1	W 35-12vs Georgia State	1	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	L 28-31@ Syracuse	10	6	0.0	—	0	Season-high 10 tackles
Wk 3	W 59-7vs VMI	4	0	1.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 19-31@ Louisville	4	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	W 24-14vs Duke	5	2	0.5	—	1
Wk 7	W 41-34@ North Carolina	3	2	0.0	—	1
Wk 8	L 13-31vs Notre Dame	7	5	0.5	—	0
Wk 9	L 6-21@ Virginia Tech	6	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 11	W 28-23vs Miami	4	3	0.0	—	0
Total		45	28	3.0	—	2

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2 seasons under Brent Key, all run-leaning offenses — 14-12 over that span.

2023Georgia Tech7-6HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning

2024Georgia Tech7-6HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

41Rotational starter #354 of 537?

Medium confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: qb hurries (23rd percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Solo tackles#613 / 2892 · 78th pct

Tackles#748 / 2892 · 74th pct

Passes defended#755 / 2892 · 67th pct

Tackles for loss#1063 / 2892 · 61st pct

3.0

Sacks#1455 / 2892 · 25th pct

0.0

QB hurries#1536 / 2892 · 23rd pct

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.

Defensive profile

Defender profile · Production by role

Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet

45 tkl · 3 TFL · 2 PD

PD rate

4%2 pass breakups

Tackle volume

45tackles this season

TFL rate

7%3 TFL

45 tackles · 3 for loss · 2 pass breakups.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	3.7	0.5	0.0	0.2
Road4g	5.8	0.0	0.0	0.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-77g	4.0	0.4	0.0	0.3
Weeks 8+3g	5.7	0.2	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Neal Brown

Pass share

52.3%

115 pass / 105 run

Plays / game

73.3

3 games

Team sack rate

1.6%

122 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Part-time starter

Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

41 · #354 of 537 safeties

Three-star recruit. Now #354 at the position.

How he plays

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

10 games

45Tackles

28Solo

3TFL

0Sacks

2Pass def.

0INT

45 tackles. 2 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 TFL.

Week 61 PD
Week 71 PD

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.

DNA match

Player DNA

Hybrid Nickel

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

His 2024 production profile sits closest to Jaden Harris’s 2024 season.

Jaden Harris

80%match

Miami · 2024

Myles Purchase

Iowa State · 2022

77%

Cedarious Barfield

San Diego State · 2021

76%

Jaylen Mahoney

Vanderbilt · 2021

76%

Malik Mustapha

Wake Forest · 2021

NFL Rd 4

76%

Matches Jaden on

Class year

PD rate

Tackle volume

Differs from Jaden on

Height (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Jaden Harris's sophomore season at Miami (2024).

Jaden Harris

85%match

Miami · 2024

Daniel Cobbs

Kansas State · 2025

83%

Khalan Tolson

Illinois · 2021

83%

Braden Turner

Northwestern · 2024

82%

Phillip Hill

North Texas · 2023

82%

Matches Jaden on

Class year

PD rate

Tackle volume

Player DNA

Players who play like Taye Seymore

Jordan Allen

Houston · 2025

80%

Jaden Harris

Miami · 2024

80%

Aiden Manutai

California · 2025

79%

Ethan Minter

Virginia · 2025

79%

Fred Gaskin

South Florida · 2025

78%

Background

Prior to UNT: Spent the 2025 season at Auburn and was at Georgia Tech in 2024 and 2023 … has appeared in 20 games in his career with seven starts … has 51 tackles, 28 solo stops, three TFLs and a pair of PBUs in his career prior to joining UNT … did not see game action for Auburn in 2025 ……

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#8Caden JenkinsCB · Sr.10 tackles · 2025
#9Cameren JenkinsS · Sr.6 tackles · 2025
#5Chase CanadaCB · Sr.3 tackles · 2025
#2Taye SeymoreS · Sr.no box-score line yet

18 more on the roster · North Texas team page

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology