Senior cornerback on SMU's 2019 roster.
6′0″ · 190 lb · Slidell, LA
Robert Hayes Jr.
He has spent two seasons in the SMU secondary. One game to point at: 5 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Temple — Week 8, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Two seasons at SMU, 42 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
2 seasons under Sonny Dykes — 15-10 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: sacks (23rd 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 3.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rhett Lashlee
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.
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 37-30@ Arkansas State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 49-27vs North Texas | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 47-17vs Texas State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 41-38@ TCU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 48-21@ South Florida | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-21vs Temple | 5 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 34-31@ Houston | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 48-54@ Memphis | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
19 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1.5 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.
Player DNA