Senior safety on Michigan State's 2022 roster.
6′1″ · 210 lb · Reynoldsburg, OH
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. 313 nationally · Signed with Michigan State
Statement game17 tackles · 1 TFLvs Nebraska (FBS) · W 23-20
Top 0.1% tackles game since 2021.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
5 safety on Michigan State's roster.
Xavier Henderson
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Xavier Henderson has been at Michigan State through two head coaches in five seasons. His first career honor landed in 2021: All-Big Ten. One game to point at: 8 tackles, 1 TFL against Penn State — Week 13, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Michigan State, 273 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2022
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mark Dantonio → Mel Tucker. 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: sacks (24th 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
2022 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 4.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 6.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 6.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Fitzgerald
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Michigan State | 38 | 24 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Michigan State | 96 | 61 | 10.0 | 3.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| 2020 | Michigan State | 41 | 24 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Michigan State | 83 | 56 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 6 | 2 | -- |
| 2018 | Michigan State | 15 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 273 | 174 | 16.5 | 3.0 | 10 | 3 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 10 · 2022
W 23–15
at Illinois
4 TOT · 3 SOLO
With B. Baringer — 49 AVG · 4 IN 20 · 68 LONG · P. Thorne — 182 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 69.6 · 10 rush yds (6 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-13vs Western Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-28vs Wisconsin | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 7-29@ Michigan | 8 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 10 | W 23-15@ Illinois | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 27-21vs Rutgers | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 31-39vs Indiana | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 16-35@ Penn State | 8 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 38 | 24 | 3.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
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 Patrick Fields’s 2022 season.
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Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Patrick Fields's graduate season at Stanford (2022).
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Player DNA