Senior defensive lineman on Arkansas State's 2022 roster.
6′4″ · 290 lb · Homerville, GA
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
SDE recruit
No. 795 nationally · Signed with Tennessee
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive lineman on Arkansas State's roster.
John Mincey
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. John Mincey has played for two head coaches across five seasons and two programs. The receipt: 4 tackles, 1.5 TFL against South Alabama — Week 9, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Arkansas State, 2 sacks — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2022
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Blake Anderson → Butch Jones. 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: tackles for loss (86th percentile). Concern: solo tackles (11th 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
2022 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Butch Jones
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #382 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Arkansas State | 20 | 6 | 6.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Arkansas State | 19 | 13 | 4.0 | 0.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Tennessee | 8 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Tennessee | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Tennessee | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 57 | 27 | 13.0 | 1.5 | -- | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2022
W 58–3
vs Grambling
2 TFL · 2 SOLO · 2 TOT
Dominant 55-point win at home against Grambling.
With J. Lang — 124 rush yds (13 car) · 1 TD · J. Blackman — 210 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 97.8 · 11 rush yds (2 car) · 2 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 58-3vs Grambling | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 32-44@ Memphis | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 26-29@ Old Dominion | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 19-20@ Southern Miss | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 8 | L 18-38@ Louisiana | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 3-31vs South Alabama | 4 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 35-33vs Massachusetts | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 19-48vs Troy | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 6 | 6.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
20 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6.5 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.
Player DNA
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Josh Ellison’s 2022 season.
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Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to James Rawls's graduate season at Oregon State (2022).
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Player DNA