#24

John Bonney

Senior defensive back on Texas Tech's 2018 roster.

DB · Texas Tech · Sr. · #24

6′1″ · 205 lb · Houston, TX

Texas Tech 2018 alumnus

Recruiting

4★

S recruit

No. 251 nationally · Signed with Texas

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive back on Texas Tech's roster.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Texas in 2014.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Three seasons at Texas Tech, 90 tackles — his college career is complete.

His career

He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.

2014

Signed with Texas4-star out of Lamar

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#251 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2016–2018

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2016–2018

1 coach

2016–2018

Kliff Kingsbury

Texas Tech

Played his entire career under Kliff Kingsbury.

2018 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2016Texas5-7HC: Charlie Strong · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2017Texas7-6HC: Tom Herman · Balanced, fast tempo

2018Texas Tech5-7HC: Kliff Kingsbury · Pass-leaning, fast tempo

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: tackles for loss (19th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

QB hurries#730 / 2662 · 63rd pct

Solo tackles#1012 / 2662 · 61st pct

Tackles#1259 / 2662 · 52nd pct

Passes defended#1093 / 2662 · 48th pct

Sacks#1396 / 2662 · 24th pct

0.0

Tackles for loss#2101 / 2662 · 19th pct

0.5

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

2018 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Road4g	2.8	0.1	0.0	0.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	3.2	0.1	0.0	0.2
Weeks 8+5g	2.6	0.0	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Joey McGuire

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

Awards

Player standing · 2018

Rotational

Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career stats

Season	Team
2018	Texas Tech	32	22	0.5	0.0	1	--	--
2017	Texas	19	12	0.5	0.5	3	1	--
2016	Texas	39	32	0.5	0.0	9	--	--
Career		90	66	1.5	0.5	13	1	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2018

W 41–17

at Oklahoma State

3 TOT · 2 SOLO · 0 TFL

Dominant 24-point win on the road against Oklahoma State.

With A. Bowman — 397 yds · 2 TD · 2 INT · -26 rush yds (4 car) · D. Felton — 121 rush yds (12 car) · 2 TD

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week