Sophomore safety on Utah State's 2018 roster.
6′1″ · 200 lb · Alpine, UT
Baron Gajkowski
Second year in the Utah State secondary, same address the whole way. The receipt: 2 tackles, 2 TFL against San José State — Week 11, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Two seasons at Utah State, 55 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
2 seasons under Matt Wells, all balanced offenses — 17-9 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (0th 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
2018 season · 5 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bronco Mendenhall
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Utah State | 5 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Utah State | 50 | 25 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 55 | 29 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2018
W 45–20
at BYU
1 TOT · 1 SOLO
Dominant 25-point win on the road against BYU.
With T. Hintze — 42 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 50 LONG · D. Thompson — 109 rush yds (17 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-38@ Michigan State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 45-20@ BYU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 59-28vs UNLV | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 62-24vs San José State | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 52-13@ North Texas | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 5 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |