Player Dossier

2014-2017

Rutgers

Brandon Russell

LB • 6'0" • 235 lbs • Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Russell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

19

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

26

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Rutgers

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Rutgers
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Maryland
2★

Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.7944

University School · Fort Lauderdale, FL

Committed To
Rutgers
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Brandon Russell, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Rutgers. Brandon Russell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
27
TFL
1

Quick Answers

Brandon Russell quick answers

Latest team and position
Rutgers · LB
Career Tackles
27
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 7 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Rutgers
Top game
Maryland
Recruit profile
2-star · University School · Rutgers
High school pipeline
University School · 29 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 49 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
11 tackles · LB 664th (top 61%) · Big Ten 278th (top 45%) · National 2,578th (top 45%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonRutgers00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonRutgers00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonRutgers31610--043.5
2017 Regular SeasonRutgers411-0--042.2

Related Context

Brandon Russell played LB for Rutgers. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brandon Russell recorded 27 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Rutgers.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Rutgers paired 1 primary output with 25.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2017 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Penn State

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2017 Regular Season · Rutgers

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

11.5

Usage

1.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Penn State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Morgan State: 0. Michigan: 0. Penn State: 0. Michigan 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. Morgan State: 1 by 4.2. Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Penn State: 4 by 16.7. Michigan State: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Penn State

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Michigan State

Result
Sat 11/25vs Michigan StateL 7-4052000
Sat 11/11@ Penn StateL 6-3541000
Sat 10/28@ MichiganL 14-3511000
Sat 9/16vs Morgan StateW 65-010000

Career Arc

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

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    Rutgers

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonRutgers0
2015 Regular SeasonRutgers00
2016 Regular SeasonRutgers125.64.51
2017 Regular SeasonRutgers011.51.8-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Maryland

Week 13 · L 13-31 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

83.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 83.9 takeover score.

#2

@ Penn State

Week 11 · L 6-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

15.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.6 takeover score.

#3

vs Michigan State

Week 13 · L 7-40 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

13.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.3 takeover score.

#4

vs Penn State

Week 12 · L 0-39 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Morgan State

Week 3 · W 65-0

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Regular Season · Rutgers

1 primary output · 25.6 efficiency · 4.5 usage

43.5

#2

2017 Regular Season · Rutgers

42.2

0 primary · 11.5 efficiency · 1.8 usage

#3

2014 Regular Season · Rutgers

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games