Senior defensive end for Purdue. 2019: 1 sack, 3.5 tackles for loss, 18 tackles.
6′4″ · 260 lb · Pomona, CA
The story
4 defensive end for Purdue. 2019: 1 sack, 3.5 tackles for loss, 18 tackles.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearKai Higgins
This is his third year in the same defensive front at Purdue. The receipt on tape: 3 tackles against Maryland, Week 7, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Purdue, 2 sacks — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2017–2019
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Jeff Brohm.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Jeff Brohm — 17-21 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: passes defended (19th 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
2019 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Barry Odom
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 10 · 2019
W 31–27
vs Nebraska
2 TOT · 2 SOLO · 2 TFL
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 4 at home.
With J. Plummer — 242 yds · 2 TD · 2 INT · 61 rush yds (12 car) · Z. Collins — 43 AVG · 48 LONG · 3 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-34@ Nevada | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-24vs Vanderbilt | 3 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 31-38vs Minnesota | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-35@ Penn State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 40-14vs Maryland | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 20-26@ Iowa | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 6-24vs Illinois | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-27vs Nebraska | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 18 | 13 | 3.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
18 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3.5 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.