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Jordan Dunbar

Senior cornerback for Missouri State. 2025: 2 interceptions, 11 pass breakups, 21 tackles.

CB · Missouri State · Sr. · #12

6′0″ · 195 lb · Syracuse, NY

CFB Index 79 · #44 of 364 cornersLow confidenceReturning to Missouri State for 2026

How he plays

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.

Passes defended: 99th percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

interceptions · 2025

11 PBU · 21 tackles · 1 TFL

Best game: 1 INT, 1 PBU, 3 tackles, at Liberty

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 cornerback for Missouri State. 2025: 2 interceptions, 11 pass breakups, 21 tackles.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Rice in 2020.
Transferred from Bowling Green to Missouri State in 2025.

His career, year by year

Jordan Dunbar

CB · Missouri State · Sr · #12

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away. Across four seasons and three programs, three head coaches: Mike Bloomgren, Chris Klieman and Nick Petrino. In 2022 the league put his name on paper for the first time: All-Conference USA. The receipt on tape: 4 tackles against SMU, Week 3, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Rice4-8HC: Mike Bloomgren · Run-leaning

2022Rice5-8HC: Mike Bloomgren · Run-leaning

2024Kansas State9-4HC: Chris Klieman · Run-leaning

2025Missouri State7-6HC: Nick Petrino · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

79All-Conference level #44 of 364?

Low confidence7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (99th percentile). Concern: qb hurries (22nd percentile).

Box-score production (7)

Passes defended#12 / 2975 · 99th pct

Interceptions#114 / 817 · 75th pct

Solo tackles#1434 / 2975 · 50th pct

Tackles#1929 / 2975 · 34th pct

Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct

1.0

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

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

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home5g	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.8
Road6g	1.7	0.2	0.0	1.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-75g	2.0	0.0	0.0	1.0
Weeks 8+6g	1.8	0.2	0.0	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Casey Woods

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

79 · #44 of 364 corners

Three-star recruit. Now #44 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-Conference USA

Based on 2025: #2 of 19 Conference USA CBs

How the All-Conference USA estimate is computed

49% estimated, 95% confidence interval 43–54%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Missouri State	21	15	1.0	11	2	--
2024	Kansas State	3	2	0.0	1	--	--
2022	Rice	24	20	0.0	6	--	--
2021	Rice	29	22	0.0	9	--	--
Career		77	59	1.0	27	2	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	L 13-73@ USC	3	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	W 21-20@ Marshall	1	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 3	L 10-28vs SMU	4	2	0.0	—	2	Season-high 4 tackles
Wk 5	L 22-27vs Western Kentucky	1	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	W 22-20@ Middle Tennessee	1	1	0.0	—	2
Wk 9	W 24-17@ New Mexico State	1	1	0.0	1	2
Wk 10	W 28-21vs Florida International	0	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 11	W 21-17@ Liberty	3	3	1.0	1	1
Wk 12	W 38-24vs UTEP	3	3	0.0	—	1
Wk 13	L 34-41@ Kennesaw State	1	1	0.0	—	1
Wk 14	L 30-42vs Louisiana Tech	3	2	0.0	—	0
Total		21	15	1.0	2	11

How he plays

Play style

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

11 games

21Tackles

15Solo

1TFL

0Sacks

11Pass def.

2INT

21 tackles. 11 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 1 TFL.

Week 21 PD
Week 32 PD
Week 72 PD
Week 92 PD · 1 INT
Week 101 PD
Week 111 PD · 1 INT
Week 121 PD
Week 131 PD

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

Missouri State

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · Missouri State

Returning around him

Transfer portal: +8 net (19 in / 11 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Missouri State · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #119 · 2026 recruiting class #131

DNA match

Player DNA

Ball Hawk

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kenneth Harris’s 2021 season.

Kenneth Harris

86%match

Arkansas State · 2021

Christian Gray

Notre Dame · 2025

76%

Jaylon Jones

Georgia State · 2022

NFL Rd 7

55%

Starling Thomas V

UAB · 2022

All-Conference USA

54%

Kalen King

Penn State · 2022

All-Big TenNFL Rd 7

53%

Matches Kenneth on

Interceptions

Weight

Height

Differs from Kenneth on

Tackle volume (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Michael Dansby's senior season at Arizona (2025).

Michael Dansby

86%match

Arizona · 2025

NFL Rd 7

Colby Dempsey

UAB · 2024

56%

Khary Crump

Rice · 2025

33%

Quinyon Mitchell

Toledo · 2023

1st-team All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 22

26%

Trey Amos

Alabama · 2023

All-SECNFL Rd 2 · Pk 29

24%

Matches Michael on

Class year

PD rate

Tackle volume

Player DNA

Players who play like Jordan Dunbar

Nicktroy Fortune

UTSA · 2023

90%

Chris Megginson

SMU · 2023

88%

Johnny Dixon

Penn State · 2022

87%

KK Meier

UTSA · 2025

86%

James Shellman

Middle Tennessee · 2024

84%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Jordan Dunbar

2020

202211 games

2024

202511 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

Career stats

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Ball Hawk

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