Junior cornerback on Notre Dame's 2019 roster.
6′2″ · 212 lb · Memphis, TN
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 304 nationally · Signed with Notre Dame
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 cornerback on Notre Dame's roster.
Donte Vaughn
This is his fourth year in the same secondary at Notre Dame. The receipt on tape: 6 tackles against Virginia Tech, Week 10, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Notre Dame, 56 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Brian Kelly.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Brian Kelly — 37-14 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (88th percentile). Concern: solo tackles (5th 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
2019 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Marcus Freeman
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Notre Dame | 16 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Notre Dame | 12 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Notre Dame | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Notre Dame | 22 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 56 | 28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2019
W 30–27
vs USC
3 TOT
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.
With I. Book — 165 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 57.1 · 49 rush yds (12 car) · 1 TD · T. Jones Jr. — 176 rush yds (25 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 66-14vs New Mexico | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 30-27vs USC | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-45@ Michigan | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 21-20vs Virginia Tech | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 11 | W 38-7@ Duke | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 52-20vs Navy | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 45-24@ Stanford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Bowl | W 33-9@ Iowa State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 5 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
16 tackles. 5 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.