Senior safety on Ole Miss's 2023 roster.
5′11″ · 195 lb · West Palm Beach, FL
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
ATH recruit
No. 1663 nationally · Signed with Florida Atlantic
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety on Ole Miss's roster.
Teja Young
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Teja Young has played for two head coaches across six seasons and two programs. All-Conference USA in 2022 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. The receipt: 5 tackles against Tulane — Week 2, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at Ole Miss, 171 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA
All-Conference USA mention (2022)
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Matt Luke → Lane Kiffin. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th 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
2023 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road2g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pete Golding
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ole Miss | 12 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Florida Atlantic | 47 | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 | 2 | -- |
| 2021 | Florida Atlantic | 58 | 24 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 5 | 3 | -- |
| 2020 | Florida Atlantic | 36 | 19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | -- |
| 2019 | Florida Atlantic | 15 | 10 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Florida Atlantic | 3 | -- | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 171 | 88 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 16 | 7 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 73-7vs Mercer | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 37-20@ Tulane | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 48-23vs Georgia Tech | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 33-7vs Vanderbilt | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-35vs Texas A&M | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 35-3vs UL Monroe | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 17-7@ Mississippi State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 12 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 |
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 2022 production profile sits closest to Jabari Moore’s 2021 season.
Matches Jabari on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Al-Ma'Hi Ali's graduate season at Charlotte (2024).
Matches Al-Ma'Hi on
Player DNA