Senior defensive back on Florida Atlantic's 2025 roster.
5′9″ · 180 lb · Miramar, 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.
The story
4 defensive back on Florida Atlantic's 2025 roster.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearWendol Philord
Erases the deep middle of the field. Wendol Philord has played for two head coaches in two seasons at Florida Atlantic. The receipt: 5 tackles against Memphis — Week 5, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2024–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Chad Lunsford → Zach Kittley. 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 (21st 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Zach Kittley
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-AAC
Based on 2025: #25 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 | Florida Atlantic | 16 | 8 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 4 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Florida Atlantic | 41 | 28 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 4 | -- | -- |
| Career | 57 | 36 | 7.5 | 1.0 | 8 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025
W 56–14
vs Florida A&M
2 PD · 1 SOLO · 2 TOT
Dominant 42-point win at home against Florida A&M.
With C. Veltkamp — 309 yds · 5 TD · 0 INT · QBR 85.0 · 13 rush yds (5 car) · L. Lupo — 47 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 55 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-39@ Maryland | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 56-14vs Florida A&M | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-38@ Florida International | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 26-55vs Memphis | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 27-21@ Rice | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 7 | W 53-33vs UAB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 45-48vs UConn | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 3-42vs East Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 8 | 1.5 | 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
16 tackles. 4 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.
2026 Outlook
Florida Atlantic
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive back · Florida Atlantic
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Florida Atlantic · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #98 · 2026 recruiting class #130
Player DNA
Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jeremiah Wilson’s 2023 season.
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As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Jeremiah Wilson's sophomore season at Syracuse (2023).
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Player DNA