Former cornerback at USC. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′2″ · 200 lb · Chandler, AZ
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
S recruit
No. 193 nationally · Signed with Washington
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former cornerback at USC. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
Jacobe Covington
Jams receivers off their route at the line. Across four seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Jimmy Lake and Lincoln Riley. One game to point at: 6 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Michigan — Week 4, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at USC, 60 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 · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Donte Williams → Lincoln Riley. 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 (23rd 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 4.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lincoln Riley
Pass share
46.0%
97 pass / 114 run
Plays / game
70.3
3 games
Team sack rate
2.0%
102 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2024
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Former four-star. Now #297 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | USC | 29 | 21 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | USC | 12 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | USC | 14 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Washington | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 60 | 44 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 8 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 18 · 2024
W 35–31
vs Texas A&M
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-20@ LSU | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 48-0vs Utah State | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-27@ Michigan | 6 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 38-21vs Wisconsin | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 6 | L 17-24@ Minnesota | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-20vs Nebraska | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 19-13@ UCLA | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 35-49vs Notre Dame | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 35-31vs Texas A&M | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 29 | 21 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Play style
Long and physical; jams receivers off their route at the line.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
29 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 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.
Player DNA
Long and physical; jams receivers off their route at the line.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Tyreque Jones’s 2022 season.
Matches Tyreque on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to John Humphrey's senior season at UCLA (2023).
Matches John on
Player DNA