🚨 NEW @SotDPodcast 🚨
— Brad Denny (@BDenny29) December 19, 2023
ASU DB @100YardLandLord opens up on:
- His journey
- Staying positive
- Belief in ASU's culture
- Texas-to-Tempe
& more...
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2024 / Redshirt Junior
- Xavion Alford dubbed himself the @100YardLandlord across his social media platforms and has made sure to become eponymous with the title this season as ASU’s last line of defense in the secondary.
- Played the 10th-most snaps in coverage in the FBS (522) and allowed just 9 receptions, the 7th-fewest in the FBS despite posting 100 more coverage snaps than any of the six players ahead of him (min. 300 coverage snaps).
- Prior to the Bowl Season, opponents chose to throw his way on just 4.2 percent of coverage snaps, the 4th-lowest total among all FBS players. His 19 targets on the year are 14th-lowest in the FBS.
- He allowed just 90 yards in coverage prior to Bowl Season - 4th-lowest among all FBS players.
- He allowed just 0.20 yards per coverage snap prior to Bowl Season, the 2nd-lowest total in the FBS.
- Alford forced an incompletion 26.3 percent of the time when targeted, the 8th-best tally among all FBS players.
- Opponents had just a 34.9 NFL QBR when targeting Alford prior to the Bowl Season, 9th-lowest in the FBS.
- Alford was the 38th-highest graded defensive player in coverage prior to Bowl Season (87.5), 19th among safeties and 4th among Big 12 players ... he was the 31st-highest graded safety in the FBS on overall defense (81.0), a total good for ninth among all Big 12 players.
- ASU’s last line of defense, Alford was sure-handed as well with the nation’s 24th-best tackling grade among safeties (82.1).
- He was credited with just 8 missed tackles this year with a 9.7 missed tackle percentage that was 37th among FBS safeties.
- Alford was second on the Sun Devils with 85 tackles.
2023 / Redshirt Junior
- Was forced to sit out the season due to NCAA's two-time transfer rules - which were inevitably lifted later in the '23-24 athletics campaign
- Proved to be an invaluable resource on ASU's scout team as a result, giving the Sun Devils a proven DI talent to practice against on offense
USC/Texas/High school
- Missed the 2022 season to injuries
- Transferred to USC from Texas in the spring of 2021 and saw significant playing time at strong safety and on special teams as a redshirt freshman in 2021 … Overall in 2021 while appearing in 11 games (all but California) and starting twice (UCLA and BYU), he made 31 tackles, a team-best 3 interceptions and 3 deflections and earned USC’s 2021 Co-Defensive Perimeter Player of the Year Award
- Appeared in 4 games (UTEP, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Kansas State) as a first-year freshman reserve safety at Texas in 2020, recording 4 tackles
- An All-America and all-state honoree … selected to participate in the 2020 All-American Bowl … injured in the first game of 2019 and missed the remainder of his senior season
- Selected for the Class Act award by a local television station
- Ranked No. 137 nationally overall, No. 9 at safety and No. 14 overall in Texas by Rivals … No. 145 nationally, No. 9 at safety, and No. 21 overall in Texas according to 247Sports … rated No. 202 on the ESPN300, No. 9 at safety and No. 32 overall in Texas by ESPN … listed at No. 19 on the Austin American-Statesman’s Fab 55 … ranked No. 5 in the Houston Top 100 by the Houston Chronicle
- Named first-team 2019 Super Team and to the Texas Top 300 by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football … named to the Touchdown Club of Houston’s 2019 UIL High School Preseason Team … earned first-team 5A All-State honors from the Texas Sports Writers Association and honorable mention from the Associated Press in 2018 … tabbed first-team All-District 10-5A Division I
- Played in all 16 games as a junior, recording 70 tackles (58 solo), six interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown, and 21 passes defended as a junior … also returned two kickoffs … part of a defense that allowed just 16.1 points per game, including two shutouts … posted at least four tackles in 10 games and at least six tackles five times … returned an interception 45 yards for a touchdown against Texas City
- Helped Shadow Creek to a 15-1 overall record, a 7-0 district mark and title, and an appearance in the 5A Division 1 state title game in 2018 – the same season Shadow Creek debuted a varsity football squad
- Also played basketball in high school