Senior safety on Coastal Carolina's 2025 roster.
6′1″ · 205 lb · Richmond, 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. 896 nationally · Signed with Vanderbilt
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety on Coastal Carolina's 2025 roster.
Jeffrey Ugochukwu
Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. Across four seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Clark Lea and Jeremiah Johnson. The receipt on tape: 1 tackles against Georgia Southern, Week 12, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Chad Staggs, Tim Beck, and Jeremiah Johnson. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (0th 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 · 3 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road1g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-71g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ryan Beard
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #398 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Coastal Carolina | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Vanderbilt | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Vanderbilt | 23 | 12 | 3.0 | 1.0 | -- | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | 10 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 37 | 22 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 7 | W 23-8vs UL Monroe | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 1 tackles |
| Wk 11 | W 40-27vs Georgia State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 40-45@ Georgia Southern | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Coastal Carolina
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · Coastal Carolina
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Coastal Carolina · Last season: 6-7 · Talent rank #105 · 2026 recruiting class #118
Player DNA
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Jay Jones’s 2022 season.
Matches Jay on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Jay Jones's sophomore season at Southern Miss (2022).
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Player DNA