Former safety at Cincinnati. 2020: 1 interception, 6 pass breakups, 32 tackles.
6′0″ · 205 lb · Miami, FL
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 800 nationally · Signed with Cincinnati
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former safety at Cincinnati. 2020: 1 interception, 6 pass breakups, 32 tackles.
James Wiggins
Third year in the Cincinnati secondary, same address the whole way. 2020 brought the first one: All-America (The Athletic). One game to point at: 7 tackles against Army — Week 4, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Cincinnati, 84 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — drafted at #243 overall by Arizona.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA
Named All-American (2020)
1 selectors honored him
ALL-AAC · 1ST TEAM
All-AAC 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Luke Fickell.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
ArizonaEntering 6th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Luke Fickell — 24-11 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (96th percentile). Concern: qb hurries (29th 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
2020 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Road2g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
In the All-America conversation, short of a selector's first team.
Selector Grid · 2020
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Cincinnati | 32 | 25 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 6 | 1 | -- |
| 2018 | Cincinnati | 51 | 35 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 2017 | Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 84 | 61 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 11 | 4 | 1 |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 12 · 2020
W 36–33
at UCF
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 55-20vs Austin Peay | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 24-10vs Army | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 28-7vs South Florida | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 42-13@ SMU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 49-10vs Memphis | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-10vs Houston | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 55-17vs East Carolina | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 36-33@ UCF | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 16 | W 27-24vs Tulsa | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 32 | 25 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 6 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
32 tackles. 6 passes defended. 1 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.