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Jayden Perry

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2001-02-20 (age 25)
Height:: 175 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 30 GP · 1,818 min · 4 goals · 3 assists

Composite 2026: -0.158 — ranked 261 of 385 Composite page →

Standard Stats

			Playing Time			Performance									Per 90
Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	GS	Min	Gls	Ast	PK	Sh	SoT	KP	Pass%	CrdY	CrdR	Gls/90	G+A/90
1	2025	Thorns	19	14	1305	3	1	3	4	3	1	81.0	2	0	0.21	0.28
2	2026	Thorns	11	5	513	1	2	0	4	4	2	83.3	2	0	0.18	0.53
	2 Yrs		30	19	1818	4	3	3	8	7	3	81.7	4	0	0.20	0.35

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2025	Thorns	1305	3	2.20	0.80	0.15	1.33	2.17	-0.84	0.09	4.03	0.28	0.190
2	2026	Thorns	513	1	0.67	0.33	0.12	0.94	1.44	-0.50	0.17	2.35	0.41	0.080
	2 Yrs		1818	4	2.87	1.13	0.14	2.27	3.61	-1.34	0.11	6.38	0.32	0.270

Composite Rating

Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2026	-0.047	-0.765	0.755	-0.512	0.000	-0.158	261	385

Structural Roles

Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.

			Explicit (Team Sheet)								Inferred (Event Data)
Rk	Season ▴	Starts	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	Read
1	2025	14			14								14						played her role
2	2026	5			5								5						played her role
	2 Yrs	19			19								19						played her role

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Becky Sauerbrunn	Thorns	2021	Defender	0.868
2	Rafaelle	Pride	2025	Defender	0.859
3	Tierna Davidson	Stars	2023	Defender	0.850
4	Kylie Nadaner	Pride	2024	Defender	0.833
5	Kayla Sharples	Bay FC	2024	Defender	0.827
6	Mandy Freeman	Gotham	2021	Defender	0.818
7	Sam Hiatt	Gotham	2024	Defender	0.816
8	Meaghan Nally	Thorns	2022	Defender	0.815
9	Megan Reid	Angel City	2024	Defender	0.803
10	Kaleigh Riehl	Royals	2024	Defender	0.802