Sharif Denson

Senior defensive back on Ole Miss's 2026 roster.

DB · Ole Miss · Sr. · #7

5′11″ · 195 lb · Jacksonville, FL · Bartram Trail

CFB Index 47 · #299 of 544 safetiesLow confidenceTransferred Florida → Ole Miss for 2026

Next upSat Sep 19 · 7:30 pm ETvs LSUVaught-Hemingway StadiumLSU by 3

Recruiting

4★

CB recruit

No. 220 nationally · Signed with Florida

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive back on Ole Miss's 2025 roster.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Florida in 2023.
Transferred from Florida to Ole Miss in 2026.

His career, year by year

How he projects

Moves between deep coverage and the slot.

Grades highest in speed and press coverage.

The full scouting read

Sharif Denson

DB · Ole Miss · Sr · #7

Moves between deep coverage and the slot. He got to Ole Miss by way of Florida. The receipt: 11 tackles against Kentucky — Week 11, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

3 seasons under Billy Napier — 17-20 over that span.

2023Florida5-7HC: Billy Napier · Balanced

2024Florida8-5HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning, slow tempo

2025Florida4-8HC: Billy Napier · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

47Rotational starter #299 of 544?

Medium confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: solo tackles (91st percentile). Strength: tackles (81st percentile). Concern: sacks (24th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Solo tackles#237 / 2975 · 91st pct

Tackles#550 / 2975 · 81st pct

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct

Tackles for loss#1424 / 2975 · 47th pct

2.0

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

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 · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home5g	4.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
Road5g	6.4	0.2	0.0	0.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-75g	4.2	0.2	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+5g	6.2	0.2	0.0	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Pete Golding

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

47 · #299 of 544 safeties

Former four-star. Now #299 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Florida	52	39	2.0	0.0	1	--	--
2024	Florida	36	21	5.0	2.0	2	1	--
2023	Florida	7	3	0.5	0.0	--	--	--
Career		95	63	7.5	2.0	3	1	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 2	L 16-18vs South Florida	4	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 3	L 10-20@ LSU	3	3	1.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 7-26@ Miami	4	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	W 29-21vs Texas	4	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	L 17-34@ Texas A&M	6	6	0.0	—	0
Wk 10	L 20-24vs Georgia	4	3	1.0	—	0
Wk 11	L 7-38@ Kentucky	11	9	0.0	—	1	Season-high 11 tackles
Wk 12	L 24-34@ Ole Miss	8	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 13	L 11-31vs Tennessee	4	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	W 40-21vs Florida State	4	2	0.0	—	0
Total		52	39	2.0	—	1

How he plays

Play style

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

10 games

52Tackles

39Solo

2TFL

0Sacks

1Pass def.

0INT

52 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2 TFL.

Week 111 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.

DNA match

Player DNA

Hybrid Nickel

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Wesley Miller’s 2025 season.

Wesley Miller

93%match

South Alabama · 2025

All-Sun Belt

Braden Turner

Northwestern · 2025

89%

Harrell Blackmon

Old Dominion · 2021

88%

Gunner Maldonado

Arizona · 2022

87%

Stephan Blaylock

UCLA · 2021

86%

Matches Wesley on

Class year

Height

Tackle volume

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Wesley Miller's junior season at South Alabama (2025).

Wesley Miller

97%match

South Alabama · 2025

All-Sun Belt

Brandon Greil

Arkansas State · 2025

91%

Braden Turner

Northwestern · 2025

90%

Jace Bellah

Colorado State · 2025

All-Mountain West

84%

Tyson Flowers

Virginia Tech · 2025

83%

Matches Wesley on

Class year

PD rate

Tackle volume

Player DNA

Players who play like Sharif Denson

Wesley Miller

South Alabama · 2025

93%

Braden Turner

Northwestern · 2025

89%

Aaron Gates

Florida · 2024

61%

Background

2026 (SENIOR): Transfer who arrived on campus in January and participated in spring drills. FLORIDA: Appeared in all 36 games over the course of three seasons with the Gators, making 17 starts ... Started 11 of 12 games during the 2025 season, totaling 53 tackles, including two tackles for loss,...

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The secondary · Ole Miss

#7Sharif DensonS · Sr.52 tackles · 2025
#14Edwin JosephS · Jr.37 tackles · 2025
#6Joenel AgueroS · Sr.36 tackles · 2025
#8Antonio KiteCB · Sr.33 tackles · 2025
#2Jaylon BraxtonCB · Jr.24 tackles · 2025

22 more on the roster · Ole Miss team page

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

20237 games

2026

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Hybrid Nickel

Players who play like Sharif Denson

Background

The secondary · Ole Miss