Senior cornerback on Colorado's 2025 roster.
6′0″ · 170 lb · Roswell, GA
The story
4 cornerback on Colorado's 2025 roster.
Ivan Yates
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away. Ivan Yates arrived at Colorado from Furman. The receipt: 5 tackles against Iowa State — Week 7, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
2 seasons under Deion Sanders — 12-13 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (91st percentile). Concern: tackles for loss (7th 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 · 7 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Deion Sanders
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.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2025
W 24–17
vs Iowa State
5 TOT · 5 SOLO · 1 PD
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.
With K. Salter — 255 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 88.1 · 57 rush yds (9 car) · D. Greaves — 41 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 47 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | W 37-20vs Wyoming | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-17vs Iowa State | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 9 | L 7-53@ Utah | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-52vs Arizona | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-29@ West Virginia | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-42vs Arizona State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-24@ Kansas State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 5 |
Play style
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Colorado
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Cornerback · Colorado
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Colorado · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #39 · 2026 recruiting class #67
Player DNA
Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Marque Collins’s 2024 season.
Matches Marque on
Differs from Marque on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Tamarion Crumpley's graduate season at UAB (2025).
Matches Tamarion on