Senior safety for LSU. 2018: 3 interceptions, 2 pass breakups, 39 tackles.
6′3″ · 201 lb · Hallandale, FL
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 394 nationally · Signed with LSU
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety for LSU. 2018: 3 interceptions, 2 pass breakups, 39 tackles.
John Battle
Four seasons at LSU, two different head coaches: Les Miles and Ed Orgeron. The receipt on tape: 10 tackles against Florida, Week 6, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at LSU, 139 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2015–2018
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Les Miles → Ed Orgeron. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: interceptions (89th percentile). Concern: tackles for loss (8th 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
2018 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lane Kiffin
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2018
W 36–16
vs Georgia
8 TOT · 2 SOLO · 1 INT
With J. Burrow — 200 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · 66 rush yds (13 car) · 2 TD · C. Edwards-Helaire — 145 rush yds (19 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 33-17vs Miami | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-0vs SE Louisiana | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 22-21@ Auburn | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-21vs Louisiana Tech | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 45-16vs Ole Miss | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 19-27@ Florida | 10 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 36-16vs Georgia | 8 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 19-3vs Mississippi State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 40-32@ UCF | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 39 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 2 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
39 tackles. 2 passes defended. 3 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.