#11

Jalonnie Williams

Senior defensive end on Northern Illinois's 2025 roster.

DE · Northern Illinois · Sr. · #11

6′4″ · 286 lb · Milwaukee, WI

CFB Index 10 · #408 of 420 edge rushersMedium confidenceReturning to Northern Illinois for 2026

How he plays

Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack.

QB hurries: 92nd percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

sacks · 2025

1 TFL · 30 tackles · 5 hurries

Best game: 0.5 TFL, 6 tackles, at Eastern Michigan

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive end on Northern Illinois's 2025 roster.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Northern Illinois in 2021.

His career, year by year

Jalonnie Williams

DE · Northern Illinois · Sr · #11

Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Third year in the Northern Illinois defensive front, same address the whole way. One game to point at: 7 tackles against Ohio — Week 8, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
seasons on the roster
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

3 seasons under Thomas Hammock — 18-20 over that span.

2023Northern Illinois7-6HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-leaning

2024Northern Illinois8-5HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-leaning

2025Northern Illinois3-9HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-heavy, slow tempo

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

10Below cohort / limited sample #408 of 420?

Medium confidenceFading7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: qb hurries (92nd percentile). Concern: solo tackles (21st percentile).

Box-score production (7)

QB hurries#188 / 2975 · 92nd pct

Tackles#1362 / 2975 · 53rd pct

Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct

Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct

Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct

1.0

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

Solo tackles#2282 / 2975 · 21st 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 · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home5g	2.6	0.0	0.0	0.2
Road4g	4.2	0.2	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	3.2	0.2	0.0	0.2
Weeks 8+3g	3.7	0.0	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Rob Harley

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

10 · #408 of 420 edge rushers

Three-star recruit. Now #408 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Mountain West

Based on 2025: #13 of 13 Mid-American DEs — his program moves to the Mountain West for 2026

How the All-Mountain West estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. 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. The base rate was measured on players who stayed in the same conference; this estimate is not adjusted for the move to the Mountain West.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Northern Illinois	30	8	1.0	0.0	1	--	--
2024	Northern Illinois	27	14	4.0	1.0	--	--	--
2023	Northern Illinois	4	1	0.5	0.5	--	--	--
Career		61	23	5.5	1.5	1	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025

W 19–17

vs Holy Cross

1 PD · 1 SOLO · 3 TOT

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 2 at home.

With D. Vuckovic — 40 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 54 LONG · D. Reynolds — 2 SOLO · 1 TD · 2 TOT

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 19-17vs Holy Cross	3	1	0.0	—	1
Wk 2	L 9-20@ Maryland	2	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 10-38@ Mississippi State	2	0	0.5	—	0
Wk 5	L 3-6vs San Diego State	4	0	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	L 14-25vs Miami (OH)	2	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	L 10-16@ Eastern Michigan	6	0	0.5	—	0
Wk 8	L 21-48@ Ohio	7	0	0.0	—	0	Season-high 7 tackles
Wk 9	W 21-7vs Ball State	2	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	L 31-35vs Kent State	2	1	0.0	—	0
Total		30	8	1.0	—	1

How he plays

Play style

No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

9 games

30Tackles

8Solo

1TFL

0Sacks

1Pass def.

0INT

30 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 TFL.

Week 11 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

Northern Illinois

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive end · Northern Illinois

Returning around him

Transfer portal: -15 net (7 in / 22 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Northern Illinois · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #126 · 2026 recruiting class #82

DNA match

Player DNA

Versatile End

No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.

EDGE

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Anthony Franklin’s 2022 season.

Anthony Franklin

85%match

Stanford · 2022

Cortez Hogans

Boise State · 2023

81%

Kameron Hamilton

Tulane · 2022

79%

Bam Booker

Bowling Green · 2025

78%

Rashawn Yates

South Florida · 2022

76%

Matches Anthony on

Sack rate

Weight

TFL rate

Differs from Anthony on

Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Makius Scott's junior season at Georgia Tech (2023).

Makius Scott

98%match

Georgia Tech · 2023

Zionangelo Shockley

Charlotte · 2025

97%

Troy Rainey

Rutgers · 2024

90%

Cole Maxwell

Baylor · 2022

88%

Sedarius McConnell

Boston College · 2024

87%

Matches Makius on

Class year

Height

Sack rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Jalonnie Williams

Ian Mathews

Georgia State · 2025

86%

Jabriel Rhodes-Nelson

Georgia State · 2025

84%

Anthony Franklin

Stanford · 2024

80%

Bam Booker

Bowling Green · 2025

78%

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

2021

20259 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Versatile End

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