Senior defensive back on Charlotte's 2025 roster.
5′11″ · 180 lb · Hampton, VA
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
CB recruit
No. 2085 nationally · Signed with Ball State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive back on Charlotte's 2025 roster.
Thailand Baldwin
Erases the deep middle of the field. Thailand Baldwin has played for two head coaches across three seasons and two programs. The receipt on tape: 6 tackles against UTSA, Week 12, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2023–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Biff Poggi → Tim Albin. 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
Elite: passes defended (86th percentile). 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
2025 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tim Albin
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #316 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-AAC
Based on 2025: #26 of 28 American Athletic DBs
15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. 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.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Charlotte | 20 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Ball State | 23 | 18 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Ball State | 30 | 25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 | -- | -- |
| Career | 73 | 60 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 12 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025
W 42–35
vs Monmouth
2 TOT · 2 SOLO
Edged out Monmouth at home in a shootout.
With C. Harrell — 382 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 55.2 · 47 rush yds (13 car) · 2 TD · E. Jai Mason — 10 rec · 228 yds · 2 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 11-34vs App State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 3-20vs North Carolina | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 42-35vs Monmouth | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 14-49vs Temple | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-54vs North Texas | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-48@ East Carolina | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 7-28vs UTSA | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 3-35@ Georgia | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 14 | L 0-27@ Tulane | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 4 |
Play style
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
20 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 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.
2026 Outlook
Charlotte
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive back · Charlotte
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Charlotte · Last season: 1-11 · Talent rank #104 · 2026 recruiting class #103
Player DNA
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Brian Blades’s 2025 season.
Matches Brian on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Lance Robinson's junior season at Tulane (2022).
Matches Lance on
Player DNA