#14

Jyron Gilmore

Junior defensive back on Georgia Tech's 2025 roster.

DB · Georgia Tech · Jr. · #14

5′9″ · 190 lb · Citra, FL

CFB Index 44 · #327 of 544 safetiesLow confidenceReturning to Georgia Tech for 2026

How he projects

Moves between deep coverage and the slot.

The full scouting read

The story

3 defensive back on Georgia Tech's 2025 roster.

Transferred from Tennessee Tech to Georgia State in 2024.

His career, year by year

Jyron Gilmore

DB · Georgia Tech · Jr · #14

Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Across two seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Dell McGee and Brent Key. The receipt on tape: 11 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Duke, Week 8, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2024Georgia State3-9HC: Dell McGee · Pass-leaning

2025Georgia Tech9-4HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

44Rotational starter #327 of 544?

Medium confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Production sits in the middle of the position cohort across the board.

Box-score production (6)

Passes defended#517 / 2975 · 78th pct

Solo tackles#959 / 2975 · 67th pct

Tackles#1098 / 2975 · 62nd pct

Tackles for loss#1222 / 2975 · 56th pct

2.5

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Sacks#1367 / 2975 · 51st 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

2025 season · 9 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home5g	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Road4g	6.2	0.6	0.1	0.8

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	3.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+3g	5.7	0.5	0.2	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Brent Key

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

44 · #327 of 544 safeties

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-ACC

Based on 2025: #45 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	Georgia Tech	35	21	2.5	0.5	3	--	--
2024	Georgia State	54	25	2.0	0.0	1	2	2
Career		89	46	4.5	0.5	4	2	2

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025

W 24–21

vs Clemson

4 TOT · 3 SOLO

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.

With H. King — 211 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 69.1 · 103 rush yds (25 car) · 1 TD · M. Nichols — 46 AVG · 48 LONG · 2 NO

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 27-20@ Colorado	3	2	1.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	W 59-12vs Gardner-Webb	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 3	W 24-21vs Clemson	4	3	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 4	W 45-24vs Temple	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 5	W 30-29@ Wake Forest	7	6	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	W 35-20vs Virginia Tech	2	1	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 8	W 27-18@ Duke	11	5	1.5	0.5	—	2	Season-high 11 tackles
Wk 12	W 36-34@ Boston College	4	2	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 13	L 28-42vs Pittsburgh	2	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Total		35	21	2.5	0.5	—	3

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

9 games

35Tackles

21Solo

2.5TFL

0.5Sacks

3Pass def.

0INT

35 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 TFL.

Week 80.5 sacks · 2 PD
Week 121 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

Georgia Tech

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Georgia Tech

Returning around him

2 Georgia Tech players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: -1 net (19 in / 20 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Georgia Tech · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #34 · 2026 recruiting class #41

DNA match

Player DNA

Hybrid Nickel

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

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Trey Morrison’s 2022 season.

Trey Morrison

78%match

Oklahoma · 2022

Mbiti Williams Jr.

Navy · 2022

77%

Aamaris Brown

South Florida · 2023

77%

Daniel Cobbs

Kansas State · 2025

76%

Daraun McKinney

Central Michigan · 2023

76%

Matches Trey on

Tackle volume

Class year

Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Marcus Williams's graduate season at Rice (2025).

Marcus Williams

54%match

Rice · 2025

Upton Stout

Western Kentucky · 2024

All-Conference USANFL Rd 3 · Pk 36

47%

Jaheem Joseph

UNLV · 2025

All-Mountain West

34%

Ladarius Tennison

UCF · 2024

32%

Keonte Glinton

New Mexico State · 2024

31%

Matches Marcus on

PD rate

TFL rate

Weight

Differs from Marcus on

Tackle volume (lower)

Height (lower)