Ayden Garnes

Senior defensive back for Arizona. 2025: 1 interception, 8 pass breakups, 43 tackles.

DB · Arizona · Sr. · #9

6′0″ · 176 lb · Philadelphia, PA

CFB Index 64 · #111 of 364 cornersLow confidenceReturning to Arizona for 2026

How he plays

Erases the deep middle of the field.

Passes defended: 98th percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

interception · 2025

8 PBU · 43 tackles · 1.5 TFL

Best game: 9 tackles, vs SMU

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive back for Arizona. 2025: 1 interception, 8 pass breakups, 43 tackles.

Transferred from West Virginia to Arizona in 2025.

His career, year by year

Ayden Garnes

DB · Arizona · Sr · #9

Erases the deep middle of the field. Ayden Garnes has played for two head coaches across two seasons and two programs. The receipt: 9 tackles, 1 TFL against SMU — Bowl, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2024West Virginia6-7HC: Chad Scott · Run-leaning

2025Arizona9-4HC: Brent Brennan · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

64Quality starter #111 of 364?

Low confidenceAscending7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (98th percentile). Strength: solo tackles (84th percentile). Concern: sacks (24th percentile).

Box-score production (7)

Passes defended#45 / 2975 · 98th pct

Solo tackles#448 / 2975 · 84th pct

Tackles#804 / 2975 · 73rd pct

QB hurries#634 / 2975 · 72nd pct

Tackles for loss#1711 / 2975 · 39th pct

1.5

Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

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

2025 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	2.7	0.1	0.0	0.9
Road6g	4.0	0.2	0.0	0.3

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-77g	3.3	0.1	0.0	0.7
Weeks 8+6g	3.3	0.1	0.0	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Brent Brennan

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

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

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

64 · #111 of 364 corners

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #15 of 42 Big 12 DBs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Arizona	43	32	1.5	8	1	--
2024	West Virginia	25	19	1.0	1	--	--
Career		68	51	2.5	9	1	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025

W 23–17

vs Kansas State

2 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 PD

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 6 at home.

With I. Mahdi — 189 rush yds (22 car) · N. Fifita — 178 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 55.4 · 48 rush yds (15 car) · 2 TD

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 40-6vs Hawai'i	3	2	0.0	—	1	Season-high 9 tackles
Wk 2	W 48-3vs Weber State	1	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 3	W 23-17vs Kansas State	2	1	0.0	—	1
Wk 5	L 14-39@ Iowa State	4	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	W 41-13vs Oklahoma State	2	2	0.0	—	1
Wk 7	L 27-33vs BYU	2	1	0.0	—	1
Wk 8	L 28-31@ Houston	3	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 10	W 52-17@ Colorado	1	1	0.0	1	0
Wk 11	W 24-20vs Kansas	7	5	0.5	—	0
Wk 12	W 30-24@ Cincinnati	3	2	0.0	—	2
Wk 13	W 41-17vs Baylor	2	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 14	W 23-7@ Arizona State	4	4	0.0	—	0
Bowl	L 19-24@ SMU	9	8	1.0	—	0
Total		43	32	1.5	1	8

How he plays

Play style

Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

13 games

43Tackles

32Solo

1.5TFL

0Sacks

8Pass def.

1INT

43 tackles. 8 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 1.5 TFL.

Week 11 PD
Week 21 PD
Week 31 PD
Week 61 PD
Week 71 PD
Week 101 INT
Week 122 PD
Week 131 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.

2026 Outlook

Arizona

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Arizona

Returning around him

4 Arizona players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +2 net (22 in / 20 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Arizona · Last season: 9-4 (AP #21) · Talent rank #54 · 2026 recruiting class #42

DNA match

Player DNA

Centerfielder

Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Robert Longerbeam’s 2023 season.

Robert Longerbeam

83%match

Rutgers · 2023

NFL Rd 6

Ryan Cooper Jr.

Oregon State · 2023

80%

Damel Hickman

Georgia Southern · 2023

80%

Chase Lucas

Arizona State · 2021

NFL Rd 7

79%

Kempton Shine

Virginia · 2024

79%

Matches Robert on

Interceptions

Tackle volume

TFL rate

Differs from Robert on

Height (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Fentrell Cypress's senior season at Florida State (2023).

Fentrell Cypress

90%match

Florida State · 2023

All-ACC

Damel Hickman

Georgia Southern · 2023

87%

K.J. Wallace

Georgia Tech · 2023

87%

De'Shawn Rucker

South Florida · 2024

86%

Joshua Pickett

Duke · 2024

84%

Matches Fentrell on

Class year

TFL rate

Tackle volume

Player DNA

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TyMir Brown

East Carolina · 2025

86%

Cam Smith

TCU · 2024

85%

Zy Jackson

UL Monroe · 2025

82%

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

Ayden Garnes

20246 games

202513 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Centerfielder

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