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Caleb Wooden

Senior defensive back on Arkansas's 2025 roster.

DB · Arkansas · Sr. · #22

6′1″ · 195 lb · Lawrenceville, GA

CFB Index 49 · #282 of 544 safetiesLow confidenceReturning to Arkansas for 2026

Recruiting

3★

S recruit

No. 855 nationally · Signed with Auburn

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive back on Arkansas's 2025 roster.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Auburn in 2022.
Transferred from Auburn to Arkansas in 2025.

His career, year by year

How he projects

Plays like an extra linebacker near the line.

The full scouting read

Caleb Wooden

DB · Arkansas · Sr · #22

Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Across four seasons and two programs, three head coaches: Cadillac Williams, Hugh Freeze and Sam Pittman. The receipt: 10 tackles, 1 TFL against Auburn — Week 9, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022Auburn5-7HC: Cadillac Williams · Run-heavy

2023Auburn6-7HC: Hugh Freeze · Run-heavy

2024Auburn5-7HC: Hugh Freeze · Balanced

2025Arkansas2-10HC: Sam Pittman · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

49Rotational starter #282 of 544?

Medium confidenceAscending6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: solo tackles (91st percentile). Strength: tackles (86th percentile). Concern: sacks (24th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Solo tackles#237 / 2975 · 91st pct

Tackles#413 / 2975 · 86th pct

Passes defended#517 / 2975 · 78th pct

Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct

3.0

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	4.9	0.2	0.0	0.4
Road5g	5.0	0.3	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	4.2	0.3	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	5.7	0.2	0.0	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Ryan Silverfield

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Starter

Tackle volume for the position at a full-time starter's level.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

49 · #282 of 544 safeties

Three-star recruit. Now #282 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-SEC

Based on 2025: #35 of 57 SEC DBs

How the All-SEC estimate is computed

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.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Arkansas	59	39	3.0	0.0	3	--	--
2024	Auburn	17	12	1.0	0.0	1	1	--
2023	Auburn	15	13	4.5	1.0	1	1	--
2022	Auburn	9	4	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
Career		100	68	8.5	1.0	5	2	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025

W 52–7

vs Alabama A&M

0 TFL · 2 SOLO · 3 TOT

Dominant 45-point win at home against Alabama A&M.

With T. Green — 322 yds · 6 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.4 · 41 rush yds (9 car) · D. Bale — 1 REC · 45 AVG · 2 IN 20

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 52-7vs Alabama A&M	3	2	0.5	—	0
Wk 2	W 56-14vs Arkansas State	5	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 3	L 35-41@ Ole Miss	6	3	1.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 31-32@ Memphis	2	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 5	L 13-56vs Notre Dame	3	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	L 31-34@ Tennessee	6	4	0.5	—	0
Wk 8	L 42-45vs Texas A&M	5	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 9	L 24-33vs Auburn	10	6	1.0	—	0	Season-high 10 tackles
Wk 10	L 35-38vs Mississippi State	4	4	0.0	—	3
Wk 12	L 22-23@ LSU	7	5	0.0	—	0
Wk 13	L 37-52@ Texas	4	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	L 17-31vs Missouri	4	3	0.0	—	0
Total		59	39	3.0	—	3

How he plays

Play style

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

12 games

59Tackles

39Solo

3TFL

0Sacks

3Pass def.

0INT

59 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 TFL.

Week 103 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

Arkansas

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Arkansas

Returning around him

4 Arkansas players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: -1 net (42 in / 43 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Arkansas · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #36 · 2026 recruiting class #46

DNA match

Player DNA

Box Safety

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Blake Thompson’s 2024 season.

Blake Thompson

91%match

Louisiana Tech · 2024

Tavin Ward

South Florida · 2024

88%

Key Lawrence

Oklahoma · 2022

87%

Phillip Dunnam

UCF · 2025

87%

Chigozie Anusiem

Colorado State · 2023

86%

Matches Blake on

Tackle volume

Height

Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to CJ Taylor's senior season at Vanderbilt (2024).

CJ Taylor

90%match

Vanderbilt · 2024

Chigozie Anusiem

Colorado State · 2023

All-Mountain West

90%

Phillip Dunnam

UCF · 2025

90%

Alijah Clark

Syracuse · 2024

90%

Demani Richardson

Texas A&M · 2023

89%

Matches CJ on

Class year

PD rate

TFL rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Caleb Wooden

Phillip Dunnam

UCF · 2025

87%

JoJo Evans

Louisville · 2025

84%

Dru Polidore

California · 2025

84%

Lee Molette III

UConn · 2025

84%

Bobby Crosby

Texas State · 2025

83%

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

Caleb Wooden

20223 games

202512 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Starter

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Box Safety

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