Former safety at Middle Tennessee. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
5′10″ · 188 lb · Murfreesboro, TN
The story
Former safety at Middle Tennessee. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearChris Johnson
Erases the deep middle of the field. Chris Johnson has played for two head coaches in three seasons at Middle Tennessee. The receipt: 9 tackles against Western Kentucky — Week 3, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Middle Tennessee, 35 tackles — drafted at #27 overall by Miami.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Rick Stockstill → Derek Mason. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Miami2026 NFL rookie season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: solo tackles (14th 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
2024 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Derek Mason
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Middle Tennessee | 18 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Middle Tennessee | 14 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Middle Tennessee | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 35 | 17 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024
W 32–25
1 TOT
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.
With N. Vattiato — 210 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 38.4 · 4 rush yds (3 car) · G. Chadwick — 35 AVG · 38 LONG · 2 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 32-25vs Tennessee Tech | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 21-49vs Western Kentucky | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 7-24@ Memphis | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-48@ Louisiana Tech | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 14-5vs Kennesaw State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 20-13@ UTEP | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-35@ Florida International | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 18 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Play style
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Javhari Bourdeau’s 2020 season.
Matches Javhari on
Differs from Javhari on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jayvon Henderson's junior season at South Alabama (2025).
Matches Jayvon on
Player DNA