Player Dossier

2014-2018

Northwestern

Ben Oxley

DL • 6'6" • 292 lbs • Avon Lake, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ben Oxley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

22%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

27

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

29

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2018 Postseason · Northwestern

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Northwestern
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.8556

Avon Lake · Avon Lake, OH

Committed To
Northwestern
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Ben Oxley, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Postseason · Northwestern. Ben Oxley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
14
TFL
1
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Ben Oxley quick answers

Latest team and position
Northwestern · DL
Career Tackles
14
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 11 games
Best season
2018 Postseason · Northwestern
Top game
Bowling Green
Recruit profile
3-star · Avon Lake · Northwestern
High school pipeline
Avon Lake · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 75 · Senior
2018 Tackles rank
3 tackles · DL 630th (top 80%) · Big Ten 378th (top 61%) · National 3,663rd (top 63%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00-0--0-
2017 PostseasonNorthwestern81-0--030.9
2017 Regular SeasonNorthwestern810-01-030.9
2018 PostseasonNorthwestern310.50--048.4
2018 Regular SeasonNorthwestern320.50--048.4

Related Context

Ben Oxley played DL for Northwestern. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ben Oxley recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Northwestern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Postseason

Northwestern paired 1 primary output with 7.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 7.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2018 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Utah

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Postseason · Northwestern

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

7.5

Usage

2.5

Consistency

65.3

Best Game by takeover score

Utah

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah: 0.5. Minnesota: 0.5. Ohio State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Utah: 1 by 9.2. Minnesota: 1 by 9.2. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Utah

Best efficiency game

9.2 vs Utah

Result
Tue 1/1@ UtahW 31-20100.5000
Sun 12/2@ Ohio StateL 24-4511000
Sat 11/17@ MinnesotaW 24-14100.5000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Northwestern

    2014-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162017201720182018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonNorthwestern0
2015 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00
2016 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00
2017 PostseasonNorthwestern171.51
2017 Regular SeasonNorthwestern171.50
2018 PostseasonNorthwestern17.52.50
2018 Regular SeasonNorthwestern17.52.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Bowling Green

Week 3 · W 49-7

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#2

@ Utah

Week 1 · W 31-20 · Postseason

0.5

Havoc Plays

30.6 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Minnesota

Week 12 · W 24-14 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

28.1 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 28.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Minnesota

Week 12 · W 39-0 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

12.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.8 takeover score.

#5

@ Duke

Week 2 · L 17-41

0

Havoc Plays

5.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2018 Postseason · Northwestern

1 primary output · 7.5 efficiency · 2.5 usage

48.4

#2

2018 Regular Season · Northwestern

48.4

1 primary · 7.5 efficiency · 2.5 usage

#3

2017 Postseason · Northwestern

30.9

1 primary · 7 efficiency · 1.5 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games