Former cornerback at West Virginia. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
5′11″ · 186 lb · Fort Lauderdale, FL
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 213 nationally · Signed with West Virginia
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former cornerback at West Virginia. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
Jacolby Spells
Doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play. Jacolby Spells has played for two head coaches in three seasons at West Virginia. One game to point at: 2 tackles against Kansas — Week 4, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at West Virginia, 25 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Neal Brown → Chad Scott. 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 (0th 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 · 4 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Road1g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rich Rodriguez
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 at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | West Virginia | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | West Virginia | 8 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | 1 |
| 2022 | West Virginia | 13 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Career | 25 | 16 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2024
W 49–14
vs UAlbany
1 PD
Dominant 35-point win at home against UAlbany.
With G. Greene — 236 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 95.2 · 68 rush yds (7 car) · 1 TD · C. Donaldson — 125 rush yds (14 car) · 1 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 49-14vs UAlbany | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 32-28vs Kansas | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 2 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 18-45vs Kansas State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 31-24@ Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 |
Play style
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Simeon Harris’s 2022 season.
Matches Simeon on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to Matthew Seliga's freshman season at Navy (2024).
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Player DNA