Junior linebacker for South Alabama. 2025: 39 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss.
6′2″ · 220 lb · Dothan, AL
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
How he plays
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait.
QB hurries: 82nd percentile.
The full scouting readThe numbers
tackles · 2025
0.5 TFL · 1 PBU
Best game: 10 tackles, vs Tulane
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 linebacker for South Alabama. 2025: 39 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss.
Caleb Dozier
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Georgia Tech to South Alabama — the move that set up everything since. The receipt: 10 tackles against Tulane — Week 2, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: qb hurries (82nd percentile). Concern: tackles for loss (18th 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 5.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Major Applewhite
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 in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #493 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Sun Belt
Based on 2025: #51 of 63 Sun Belt LBs
15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. 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.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Alabama | 39 | 13 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 39 | 13 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025
W 38–21
vs Morgan State
1 SOLO · 4 TOT
With D. Voisin — 7 rec · 69 yds · 1 TD · A. Pulkkinen — 42 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 55 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-21vs Morgan State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 31-33vs Tulane | 10 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 3 | L 15-31@ Auburn | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-38vs Coastal Carolina | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 22-36@ North Texas | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-31@ Troy | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 14-15vs Arkansas State | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 38-31@ Georgia State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 39 | 13 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
39 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0.5 TFL.
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
South Alabama
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Linebacker · South Alabama
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
South Alabama · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #107 · 2026 recruiting class #77
Player DNA
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Mataira Brown’s 2025 season.
Matches Mataira on
Differs from Mataira on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to Tyler Lockhart's freshman season at Mississippi State (2025).
Matches Tyler on
Player DNA
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