Senior defensive back for Alabama. 2025: 1 interception, 2 pass breakups, 19 tackles.
6′0″ · 190 lb · Baltimore, MD
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
Moves between deep coverage and the slot.
Passes defended: 67th percentile.
The full scouting readThe numbers
interception · 2025
2 PBU · 19 tackles · 1 TFL
Best game: 1 INT, 3 tackles, at South Carolina
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back for Alabama. 2025: 1 interception, 2 pass breakups, 19 tackles.
Dashawn Jones
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Across five seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Dave Clawson and Kalen DeBoer. The receipt: 3 tackles against LSU — Week 11, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Nick Saban → Kalen DeBoer. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kalen DeBoer
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 #430 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-SEC
Based on 2025: #47 of 57 SEC 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 | Alabama | 19 | 11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Alabama | 23 | 11 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Wake Forest | 37 | 27 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | Wake Forest | 20 | 16 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 5 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Wake Forest | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 100 | 66 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 11 | 4 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 5 · 2025
W 24–21
at Georgia
3 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 TFL
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 on the road.
With T. Simpson — 276 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 90.1 · 12 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD · B. Doud — 39 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 46 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-31@ Florida State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-21@ Georgia | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 30-14vs Vanderbilt | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 27-24@ Missouri | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 37-20vs Tennessee | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 29-22@ South Carolina | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 20-9vs LSU | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 34-24@ Oklahoma | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Bowl | L 3-38@ Indiana | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 19 | 11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 |
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
19 tackles. 2 passes defended. 1 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.
2026 Outlook
Alabama
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive back · Alabama
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Alabama · Last season: 11-4 (AP #11) · Talent rank #4 · 2026 recruiting class #2
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Camryn Bracha’s 2024 season.
Matches Camryn on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to D.J. Graham's graduate season at Kansas (2025).
Matches D.J. on
Player DNA