Senior safety on Cincinnati's 2025 roster.
6′2″ · 220 lb · Mcdonough, GA
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 safety on Cincinnati's 2025 roster.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearXavier Williams
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Across two seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Derek Mason and Scott Satterfield. The receipt: 7 tackles against TCU — Week 14, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
Career arc
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
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 4.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
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-Big 12
Based on 2025: #31 of 40 Big 12 Ss
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 | Cincinnati | 34 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Middle Tennessee | 75 | 54 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 109 | 70 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-20vs Nebraska | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-20vs Bowling Green | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 20-11vs UCF | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 49-17@ Oklahoma State | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-20vs Baylor | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-45@ Utah | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-30vs Arizona | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 23-45@ TCU | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Total | 34 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
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
34 tackles. 1 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
Cincinnati
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · Cincinnati
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Cincinnati · Last season: 7-6 (AP #22) · Talent rank #77 · 2026 recruiting class #58
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Xamarion Gordon’s 2024 season.
Matches Xamarion on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Ja'Cquez Williams's sophomore season at UL Monroe (2021).
Matches Ja'Cquez on
Player DNA