Jalen Mcclendon

Senior cornerback on Bowling Green's 2025 roster.

CB · Bowling Green · Sr. · #8

6′0″ · 185 lb · Tampa, FL

CFB Index 50 · #180 of 364 cornersLow confidenceAll-ConferenceReturning to Bowling Green for 2026

The story

4 cornerback on Bowling Green's 2025 roster.

Signed with Tennessee State in 2021.
Transferred from Tennessee State to Bowling Green in 2025.

His career, year by year

Recruiting

CB recruit

Signed with Tennessee State

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

How he projects

Gets targeted often and tackles in space.

The full scouting read

Jalen Mcclendon

CB · Bowling Green · Sr · #8

Gets targeted often and tackles in space. He got to Bowling Green by way of Tennessee State. 2025 brought the first one: All-MAC. One game to point at: 8 tackles against Buffalo — Week 10, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025Bowling Green4-8HC: Eddie George · Run-heavy

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

50Rotational starter #180 of 364?

Low confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (96th percentile). Strength: solo tackles (92nd percentile). Concern: qb hurries (22nd percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Passes defended#85 / 2975 · 96th pct

Solo tackles#212 / 2975 · 92nd pct

Tackles#468 / 2975 · 84th pct

Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct

1.0

Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct

1.0

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	5.0	0.0	0.0	1.0
Road6g	4.3	0.2	0.2	0.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	4.3	0.0	0.0	0.5
Weeks 8+6g	5.0	0.2	0.2	0.7

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Eddie George

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

50 · #180 of 364 corners

Unranked recruit. Now #180 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-MAC

Based on 2025: #10 of 21 Mid-American CBs

How the All-MAC estimate is computed

35% estimated, 95% confidence interval 31–38%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Bowling Green	56	40	1.0	1.0	7	--	--
Career		56	40	1.0	1.0	7	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2025

W 28–23

vs Toledo

6 TOT · 5 SOLO · 2 PD

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 5 at home.

With J. Henderson — 39 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 51 LONG · C. Pettaway — 6 rush yds (3 car)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 26-7vs Lafayette	1	1	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 2	L 20-34@ Cincinnati	6	5	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 3	W 23-13vs Liberty	5	3	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 17-40@ Louisville	5	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 5	L 20-35@ Ohio	3	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	W 28-23vs Toledo	6	5	0.0	0.0	—	2
Wk 8	L 6-27vs Central Michigan	5	3	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 9	L 21-24@ Kent State	2	1	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 10	L 3-28vs Buffalo	8	8	0.0	0.0	—	1	Season-high 8 tackles
Wk 11	L 21-27@ Eastern Michigan	5	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 13	L 16-19vs Akron	5	5	0.0	0.0	—	2
Wk 14	W 45-14@ Massachusetts	5	3	1.0	1.0	—	1
Total		56	40	1.0	1.0	—	7

How he plays

Play style

Targeted often and asked to tackle in space on the perimeter.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

12 games

56Tackles

40Solo

1TFL

1Sacks

7Pass def.

0INT

56 tackles. 7 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 TFL.

Week 11 PD
Week 72 PD
Week 101 PD
Week 132 PD
Week 141 sack · 1 PD

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.

2026 Outlook

Bowling Green

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · Bowling Green

Returning around him

Transfer portal: -10 net (17 in / 27 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Bowling Green · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #111 · 2026 recruiting class #75

DNA match

Player DNA

Perimeter Tackler

Targeted often and asked to tackle in space on the perimeter.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Mansoor Delane’s 2024 season.

Mansoor Delane

87%match

Virginia Tech · 2024

All-ACCNFL Rd 1 · Pk 6

Chris Johnson

San Diego State · 2025

All-Mountain West

84%

Montre Miller

Kent State · 2022

82%

Jordan Mahoney

Massachusetts · 2022

81%

Jackson Vick

NC State · 2025

80%

Matches Mansoor on

PD rate

Height

Tackle volume

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Mansoor Delane's junior season at Virginia Tech (2024).

Mansoor Delane

96%match

Virginia Tech · 2024

Consensus All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 6

Tre'Von Jones

Minnesota · 2023

92%

Damond Harmon

Liberty · 2025

90%

Brandon Crossley

SMU · 2022

90%

Jordan Riley-Scott

Ball State · 2023

89%

Matches Mansoor on

Class year

Height

PD rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Jalen Mcclendon

Chris Johnson

San Diego State · 2025

84%

Josh Moten

Southern Miss · 2025

78%

Noah Avinger

Utah State · 2025

71%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

2021

202512 games