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Blake Cotton

Senior cornerback on Utah's 2025 roster.

CB · Utah · Sr. · #10

6′2″ · 190 lb · Sherman Oaks, CA

CFB Index 42 · #224 of 364 cornersLow confidenceIn transfer portal — destination TBD (from Utah)

How he projects

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.

The full scouting read

Recruiting

CB recruit

Signed with UC Davis

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 cornerback on Utah's 2025 roster.

Signed with UC Davis in 2022.

His career, year by year

Blake Cotton

CB · Utah · Sr · #10

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away. Blake Cotton arrived at Utah from UC Davis. One game to point at: 6 tackles, 1 TFL against Baylor — Week 12, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025Utah11-2HC: Kyle Whittingham · Run-heavy

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

42Rotational starter #224 of 364?

Low confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (96th percentile). Concern: qb hurries (22nd percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Passes defended#85 / 2975 · 96th pct

Solo tackles#1095 / 2975 · 62nd pct

Tackles for loss#1424 / 2975 · 47th pct

2.0

Tackles#1543 / 2975 · 47th pct

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd 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.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	2.4	0.1	0.0	0.7
Road4g	2.5	0.2	0.0	0.5

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-75g	2.8	0.0	0.0	0.4
Weeks 8+6g	2.2	0.3	0.0	0.8

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Morgan Scalley

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

42 · #224 of 364 corners

Unranked recruit. Now #224 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Utah	27	19	2.0	0.0	7	--	--
Career		27	19	2.0	0.0	7	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 13 · 2025

W 51–47

vs Kansas State

4 TOT · 3 SOLO · 2 PD

Edged out Kansas State at home in a shootout.

With D. Dampier — 259 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 90.0 · 94 rush yds (14 car) · 2 TD · O. Phillips — 42 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 54 LONG

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 43-10@ UCLA	3	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	W 63-9vs Cal Poly	1	0	0.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 10-34vs Texas Tech	3	3	0.0	—	1
Wk 7	W 42-10vs Arizona State	2	1	0.0	—	1
Wk 8	L 21-24@ BYU	0	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 9	W 53-7vs Colorado	1	1	1.0	—	0
Wk 10	W 45-14vs Cincinnati	1	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 12	W 55-28@ Baylor	6	6	1.0	—	0	Season-high 6 tackles
Wk 13	W 51-47vs Kansas State	4	3	0.0	—	2
Wk 14	W 31-21@ Kansas	1	1	0.0	—	1
Bowl	W 44-22vs Nebraska	5	2	0.0	—	0
Total		27	19	2.0	—	7

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

Blake Cotton

2022

202511 games

2026

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

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