Senior defensive back for Michigan State. 2025: 1 interception, 15 tackles.
5′11″ · 187 lb · Mansfield, OH · Mansfield Senior
The numbers
interception · 2025
15 tackles
Best game: 1 INT, 3 tackles, vs Maryland
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back for Michigan State. 2025: 1 interception, 15 tackles.
How he plays
Moves between deep coverage and the slot.
Solo tackles: 40th percentile.
The full scouting readAveon Grose
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Two head coaches in three seasons, at two different programs. One game to point at: 4 tackles against Iowa — Week 13, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mel Tucker → Jonathan Smith. 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
2025 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Fitzgerald
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michigan State | 15 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Michigan State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Charlotte | 16 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 35 | 24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025
W 41–24
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 41-24vs Youngstown State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 31-45@ USC | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-38@ Indiana | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-23@ Minnesota | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-28vs Penn State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-20@ Iowa | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 14 | W 38-28vs Maryland | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Michigan State
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · Michigan State
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Michigan State · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #61 · 2026 recruiting class #45
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Demarcus Rankin’s 2023 season.
Matches Demarcus on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Antonio Patterson's junior season at Florida International (2024).
Matches Antonio on
Player DNA
CAREER NOTES: Has played in 34 collegiate games, including five starts . . . lettered the last two seasons (2024-25) at Michigan State, where he has played in 24 games . . . transferred to MSU from Southern Illinois in January 2024 . . . played four games at SIU in 2023 . . . played six games at...
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