Jordan Robinson

Senior defensive back on Virginia's 2025 roster.

DB · Virginia · Sr. · #9

6′4″ · 210 lb · Columbia, SC

CFB Index 26 · #301 of 364 cornersLow confidenceReturning to Virginia for 2026

How he projects

Moves between deep coverage and the slot.

The full scouting read

The story

4 defensive back on Virginia's 2025 roster.

Transferred from Cincinnati to Virginia in 2025.

His career, year by year

Jordan Robinson

DB · Virginia · Sr · #9

Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Jordan Robinson has played for three head coaches across three seasons and three programs. The receipt: 5 tackles against Florida State — Week 5, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2023Kentucky7-6HC: Mark Stoops · Balanced, slow tempo

2024Cincinnati5-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced

2025Virginia11-3HC: Tony Elliott · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

26Below cohort / limited sample #301 of 364?

Low confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (86th percentile). Concern: qb hurries (22nd percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Passes defended#340 / 2975 · 86th pct

Tackles for loss#1222 / 2975 · 56th pct

2.5

Tackles#1469 / 2975 · 49th pct

Solo tackles#1622 / 2975 · 44th pct

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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	2.4	0.2	0.0	0.3
Road5g	2.2	0.2	0.0	0.4

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	2.7	0.2	0.0	0.2
Weeks 8+6g	2.0	0.2	0.0	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Tony Elliott

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

26 · #301 of 364 corners

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-ACC

Based on 2025: #63 of 75 ACC DBs

How the All-ACC estimate is computed

15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. 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	Virginia	28	13	2.5	4	--	--
2024	Cincinnati	18	11	2.0	1	--	--
2023	Kentucky	13	8	0.5	2	--	--
Career		59	32	5.0	7	--	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 48-7vs Coastal Carolina	1	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	L 31-35@ NC State	2	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 3	W 55-16vs William & Mary	1	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 4	W 48-20vs Stanford	5	1	1.0	—	0	Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 5	W 46-38vs Florida State	5	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	W 30-27@ Louisville	2	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 9	W 17-16@ North Carolina	2	1	1.0	—	0
Wk 10	W 31-21@ California	1	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 11	L 9-16vs Wake Forest	1	0	0.0	—	2
Wk 12	W 34-17@ Duke	4	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	W 27-7vs Virginia Tech	2	0	0.0	—	0
Wk 15	L 20-27vs Duke	2	1	0.5	—	0
Total		28	13	2.5	—	4

How he plays

Play style

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

12 games

28Tackles

13Solo

2.5TFL

0Sacks

4Pass def.

0INT

28 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 TFL.

Week 21 PD
Week 101 PD
Week 112 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

Virginia

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Virginia

Returning around him

Transfer portal: +9 net (31 in / 22 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Virginia · Last season: 11-3 (AP #20) · Talent rank #53 · 2026 recruiting class #111

DNA match

Player DNA

Hybrid Nickel

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to J'Marick Woods’s 2021 season.

J'Marick Woods

75%match

Duke · 2021

D.J. Ford

East Carolina · 2021

68%

Jaivion Green

Stanford · 2025

68%

Luke Talich

Notre Dame · 2025

66%

Antonio Stevens

Kennesaw State · 2025

64%

Matches J'Marick on

Weight

TFL rate

PD rate

Differs from J'Marick on

Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Bryan Addison's junior season at Oregon (2022).

Bryan Addison

81%match

Oregon · 2022

Tacario Davis

Arizona · 2024

All-Big 12NFL Rd 3 · Pk 8

78%

Julius Brents

Kansas State · 2022

All-Big 12NFL Rd 2 · Pk 13

78%

Lantz Russell

UTEP · 2025

76%

Zahran Manley

Stanford · 2023

75%

Matches Bryan on

Tackle volume

PD rate

Weight

Differs from Bryan on

TFL rate (higher)

Player DNA

Players who play like Jordan Robinson

Devin Grant

Syracuse · 2025

75%

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

Jordan Robinson

2022

20248 games

202512 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

Career stats

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Hybrid Nickel

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