Former defensive back at East Carolina. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′0″ · 195 lb · Grove City, OH
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
S recruit
No. 71 nationally · Joined East Carolina
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former defensive back at East Carolina. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
Kingston McKinstry
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. He has spent three seasons in the East Carolina secondary. The receipt: 4 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Navy — Week 14, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at East Carolina, 37 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2024
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mike Houston.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Mike Houston, all balanced offenses — 18-20 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: solo tackles (10th 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
2024 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Blake Harrell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #524 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | East Carolina | 13 | 6 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | East Carolina | 20 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | East Carolina | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 37 | 18 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 18 · 2024
W 26–21
at NC State
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 20-14@ Old Dominion | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 19-21vs App State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-35@ Liberty | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 38-31@ Tulsa | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 20-34vs Navy | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Bowl | W 26-21@ NC State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 13 | 6 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to John Broussard Jr.’s 2020 season.
Matches John on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Robert Daniel's sophomore season at Eastern Michigan (2022).
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Player DNA