Former safety at Mississippi State. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′3″ · 200 lb · Lexington, MS
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.
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 1142 nationally · Signed with Mississippi State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former safety at Mississippi State. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
Corey Ellington
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Corey Ellington has played for three head coaches in four seasons at Mississippi State. One game to point at: 10 tackles against Missouri — Week 13, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Mississippi State, 146 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Mike Leach, Greg Knox, and Jeff Lebby. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: tackles (81st percentile). Concern: qb hurries (23rd 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 7.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 4.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 5.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 6.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Lebby
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 part-time-starter range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #255 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mississippi State | 53 | 28 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | 66 | 30 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Mississippi State | 14 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Mississippi State | 13 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 146 | 73 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 5 | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | L 28-45vs Florida | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-35@ Texas | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 31-41@ Georgia | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-34vs Texas A&M | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 25-58vs Arkansas | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 45-20vs Massachusetts | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 14-33@ Tennessee | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 20-39vs Missouri | 10 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 14 | L 14-26@ Ole Miss | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 53 | 28 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
53 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 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.
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to D'Angelo Hutchinson’s 2024 season.
Matches D'Angelo on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Quentavius Scandrett's senior season at Eastern Michigan (2024).
Matches Quentavius on
Player DNA