Junior cornerback on Vanderbilt's 2026 roster.
6′0″ · 195 lb · Atlanta, GA · South Gwinnett
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 757 nationally · Signed with Vanderbilt
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 cornerback on Vanderbilt's 2025 roster.
How he projects
Doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
Grades highest in speed and play recognition.
The full scouting readJaylin Lackey
Doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play. Second year in the Vanderbilt secondary, same address the whole way. The receipt: 3 tackles against Texas — Week 10, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
2 seasons under Clark Lea — 17-9 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (6th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Clark Lea
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 at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Vanderbilt | 11 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Vanderbilt | 14 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 25 | 21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 44-20@ Virginia Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-7@ South Carolina | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-30@ Alabama | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 31-24vs LSU | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 17-10vs Missouri | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 31-34@ Texas | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 45-17vs Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 27-34vs Iowa | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 11 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
11 tackles. 0 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.
2026 Outlook
Vanderbilt
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Cornerback · Vanderbilt
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Vanderbilt · Last season: 10-3 (AP #13) · Talent rank #42 · 2026 recruiting class #33
Player DNA
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Alex Graham’s 2025 season.
Matches Alex on
Differs from Alex on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Joe Perkins's sophomore season at Florida International (2022).
Matches Joe on
Player DNA
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