Matthew McDoom

Senior cornerback for Cincinnati. 2025: 1 interception, 4 pass breakups, 42 tackles.

CB · Cincinnati · Sr.

5′9″ · 180 lb · Winter Garden, FL

CFB Index 46 · #201 of 364 cornersLow confidenceReturning to Cincinnati for 2026

The numbers

interception · 2025

4 PBU · 42 tackles · 1.5 TFL

Backed by 2 INT -- top 1% interceptions game. -- Best game: 1 PBU, 3 tackles, at Utah

The play that turned itSwung Coastal Carolina from 43% to 73% to win.Gardner-Webb at Coastal Carolina · 31-27

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 cornerback for Cincinnati. 2025: 1 interception, 4 pass breakups, 42 tackles.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Coastal Carolina in 2022.
Transferred from Coastal Carolina to Cincinnati in 2025.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Gets targeted often and tackles in space.

Passes defended: 86th percentile.

The full scouting read

Matthew McDoom

CB · Cincinnati · Sr

Gets targeted often and tackles in space. Across four seasons and two programs, three head coaches: Chad Staggs, Tim Beck and Scott Satterfield. All-Sun Belt in 2024 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. The receipt: 8 tackles against TCU — Week 14, 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

2022Coastal Carolina9-4HC: Chad Staggs · Run-leaning

2023Coastal Carolina8-5HC: Tim Beck · Balanced

2024Coastal Carolina6-7HC: Tim Beck · Run-leaning

2025Cincinnati7-6HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

46Rotational starter #201 of 364?

Low confidenceFading7 metrics · season cumulative

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

Box-score production (7)

Passes defended#340 / 2975 · 86th pct

Solo tackles#744 / 2975 · 74th pct

Tackles#834 / 2975 · 71st pct

Tackles for loss#1711 / 2975 · 39th pct

1.5

Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home9g	3.3	0.1	0.0	0.3
Road4g	3.0	0.1	0.0	0.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-77g	3.6	0.1	0.0	0.3
Weeks 8+6g	2.8	0.1	0.0	0.3

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Scott Satterfield

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

46 · #201 of 364 corners

Three-star recruit. Now #201 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #14 of 29 Big 12 CBs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. 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	Cincinnati	42	25	1.5	4	1	--
2024	Coastal Carolina	36	27	3.0	10	3	--
2023	Coastal Carolina	27	19	0.0	10	--	--
2022	Coastal Carolina	7	5	1.0	--	--	1
Career		112	76	5.5	24	4	1

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2025

W 38–30

vs Iowa State

8 TOT · 5 SOLO

Edged out Iowa State at home in a shootout.

With B. Sorsby — 214 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 86.0 · 64 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD · M. Fletcher — 41 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 60 LONG

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	L 17-20vs Nebraska	5	0	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	W 34-20vs Bowling Green	3	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 3	W 70-0vs Northwestern State	3	3	1.0	—	0
Wk 5	W 37-34@ Kansas	1	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	W 38-30vs Iowa State	8	5	0.0	—	0	Season-high 8 tackles
Wk 7	W 20-11vs UCF	4	2	0.0	—	2
Wk 8	W 49-17@ Oklahoma State	0	0	0.0	1	0
Wk 9	W 41-20vs Baylor	1	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 10	L 14-45@ Utah	3	1	0.5	—	1
Wk 12	L 24-30vs Arizona	5	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 13	L 14-26vs BYU	0	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 14	L 23-45@ TCU	8	6	0.0	—	0
Bowl	L 13-35vs Navy	1	1	0.0	—	0
Total		42	25	1.5	1	4

How he plays

Play style

Targeted often and asked to tackle in space on the perimeter.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

13 games

42Tackles

25Solo

1.5TFL

0Sacks

4Pass def.

1INT

42 tackles. 4 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 1.5 TFL.

Week 72 PD
Week 81 INT
Week 101 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

Cincinnati

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · Cincinnati

Returning around him

4 Cincinnati players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: +0 net (23 in / 23 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Cincinnati · Last season: 7-6 (AP #22) · Talent rank #77 · 2026 recruiting class #58

DNA match

Player DNA

Perimeter Tackler

Targeted often and asked to tackle in space on the perimeter.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Michael Anyanwu’s 2023 season.

Michael Anyanwu

87%match

Utah State · 2023

Sean Fresch

Rice · 2023

85%

Logan Wilson

North Texas · 2023

78%

Michael McMorris

Navy · 2021

76%

Jacob Boren

BYU · 2021

74%

Matches Michael on

Tackle volume

Height

PD rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Romain Mungin's senior season at Florida Atlantic (2023).

Romain Mungin

92%match

Florida Atlantic · 2023

Demarcus Griffin-Taylor

Louisiana Tech · 2024

All-Conference USA

90%

Sean Fresch

Rice · 2023

88%

Jason Maitre

Wisconsin · 2023

86%

Marquis Williams

Pittsburgh · 2023

85%

Matches Romain on

Class year

Height

PD rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Matthew McDoom

Caldra Williford

Baylor · 2025

76%

Daequan Hardy

Penn State · 2023

76%

Lamareon James

TCU · 2024

68%

Kobi Blackwell

Buffalo · 2025

57%

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

Matthew McDoom

202210 games

202412 games

202513 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Perimeter Tackler

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