Junior defensive back on Sam Houston's 2025 roster.
5′10″ · 185 lb · Houston, TX
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. 1959 nationally · Signed with Sam Houston
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 defensive back on Sam Houston's 2025 roster.
Jaidan Scott
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Jaidan Scott has been at Sam Houston through two head coaches in three seasons. The receipt: 7 tackles against New Mexico State — Week 6, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2023–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: K.C. Keeler → Phil Longo. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 4.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Phil Longo
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.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #394 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | 32 | 19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Sam Houston | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Sam Houston | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 42 | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 12 · 2025
W 26–23
vs Delaware
1 TOT
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.
With C. Gerrand — 43 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 50 LONG · L. Locke — 213 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 26.1 · -14 rush yds (4 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-41@ Western Kentucky | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 1 | L 21-38vs UNLV | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-37@ Hawai'i | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 0-55@ Texas | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 6 | L 10-37@ New Mexico State | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 27-29vs Jacksonville State | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 26-23vs Delaware | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-31@ Middle Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 32 | 19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
32 tackles. 2 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.
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to O.J. Burroughs’s 2021 season.
Matches O.J. on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Devin Lemear's senior season at Baylor (2024).
Matches Devin on