Rodney Johnson

Senior defensive back on Louisville's 2025 roster.

DB · Louisville · Sr. · #7

6′2″ · 200 lb · New Orleans, LA

Returning to Louisville for 2026

The story

4 defensive back on Louisville's 2025 roster.

The record fills in as he plays.

His career, year by year

Rodney Johnson

DB · Louisville · Sr · #7

The receipt on tape: 6 tackles, 1 TFL against Toledo, Bowl, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025Louisville9-4HC: Jeff Brohm · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: tackles (0th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Passes defended#777 / 2975 · 67th pct

Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct

1.0

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

Solo tackles#2694 / 2975 · 8th pct

Tackles#2976 / 2975 · 0th 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 · 5 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home4g	2.0	0.2	0.0	0.5
Road1g	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-72g	3.0	0.5	0.0	1.0
Weeks 8+3g	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jeff Brohm

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Backup

On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Louisville	9	5	1.0	0.0	2	--	--
Career		9	5	1.0	0.0	2	--	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week