Senior defensive back on Kansas's 2025 roster.
6′0″ · 200 lb · Fort Worth, TX
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.
The story
4 defensive back on Kansas's 2025 roster.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearD.J. Graham
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Across five seasons and three programs, five head coaches: Lincoln Riley, Bob Stoops, Brent Venables, Nate Dreiling and Lance Leipold. The receipt: 5 tackles, 1 TFL against UCF — Week 6, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2020–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Les Miles → Lance Leipold. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: qb hurries (22nd 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lance Leipold
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
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Big 12
Based on 2025: #42 of 42 Big 12 DBs
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 | Kansas | 24 | 22 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Utah State | 42 | 28 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | -- |
| 2022 | Oklahoma | 14 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Oklahoma | 36 | 25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| 2020 | Oklahoma | 20 | 15 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 136 | 95 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 10 | 4 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025
W 46–7
vs Wagner
2 SOLO · 3 TOT
Dominant 39-point win at home against Wagner.
With J. Daniels — 280 yds · 4 TD · 1 INT · QBR 80.7 · 18 rush yds (3 car) · T. Nagy — 2 rec · 20 yds
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 46-7vs Wagner | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 31-42@ Missouri | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 41-10vs West Virginia | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 34-37vs Cincinnati | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-20@ UCF | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 17-42@ Texas Tech | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-42vs Kansas State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-21vs Oklahoma State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-38@ Iowa State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 24 | 22 | 2.0 | 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
24 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2 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
Kansas
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive back · Kansas
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Kansas · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #62 · 2026 recruiting class #61
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jason Marshall Jr.’s 2021 season.
Matches Jason on
Differs from Jason on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Jaelen Stokes's graduate season at South Florida (2025).
Matches Jaelen on
Player DNA