Former defensive back at Texas. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
5′11″ · 185 lb · New Orleans, LA
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
CB recruit
No. 1278 nationally · Signed with Archbishop Rummel
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former defensive back at Texas. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
Gavin Holmes
Erases the deep middle of the field. Two head coaches in five seasons, at two different programs. The receipt: 3 tackles against Ohio State — Bowl, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Texas, 74 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2020–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Tom Herman → Steve Sarkisian. 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: 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Road3g | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Steve Sarkisian
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #206 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Texas | 14 | 10 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Texas | 14 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Wake Forest | 24 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Wake Forest | 19 | 17 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| 2020 | Wake Forest | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Career | 74 | 59 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 18 | 2 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-0vs Colorado State | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 35-13vs Mississippi State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-3@ Oklahoma | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 20-10@ Arkansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 15 | L 19-22vs Georgia | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Bowl | W 38-24vs Clemson | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Bowl | W 39-31@ Arizona State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 14-28vs Ohio State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 10 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Play style
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
14 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0.5 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
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to J.J. Roberts’s 2022 season.
Matches J.J. on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Rome Weber's junior season at Western Kentucky (2023).
Matches Rome on
Player DNA