Player Dossier

2014-2017

Kent State

Matthew Sommers

DE • 6'2" • 265 lbs • Kent, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Matthew Sommers shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

20

Developing production for an edge defender

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Reliability

13

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

30

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Kent State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Kent State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Monmouth

Player Story

Matthew Sommers built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a defensive end from Kent, OH wearing No. 33, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Matthew Sommers' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.7333

Theodore Roosevelt · Kent, OH

Committed To
Kent State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Matthew Sommers, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Kent State. Matthew Sommers shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
18
TFL
3
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Matthew Sommers quick answers

Latest team and position
Kent State · DE
Career Tackles
18
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 14 games
Best season
2015 Regular Season · Kent State
Top game
Monmouth
Recruit profile
2-star · Theodore Roosevelt · Kent State
High school pipeline
Theodore Roosevelt · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 33 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DE 248th (top 69%) · Mid-American 257th (top 47%) · National 2,735th (top 48%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonKent State00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonKent State10-0--050
2016 Regular SeasonKent State782.502-044.9
2017 Regular SeasonKent State6100.50-1016.8

Related Context

Matthew Sommers played DE for Kent State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Matthew Sommers recorded 18 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Kent State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season

Kent State paired 0 primary output with 0 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2017 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Ohio

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2017 Regular Season · Kent State

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

9.5

Usage

1.6

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Ohio

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Howard: 0. Marshall: 0.5. Louisville: 0. Buffalo: 0. Ohio: 1. Akron: 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. Howard: 1 by 4.2. Marshall: 1 by 9.2. Louisville: 1 by 4.2. Buffalo: 2 by 8.3. Ohio: 3 by 22.5. Akron: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 5 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ohio

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs Ohio

Result
Wed 11/22@ AkronL 14-2421000
Sat 10/21@ OhioL 3-4833001
Sat 9/30vs BuffaloL 13-2720000
Sat 9/23@ LouisvilleL 3-4210000
Sat 9/16@ MarshallL 0-21100.5000
Sat 9/9vs HowardW 38-3111000

Player Story

Matthew Sommers story

Matthew Sommers built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a defensive end from Kent, OH wearing No. 33, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Matthew Sommers' career was his defensive production: 18 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 1 pass defended across 14 career games in the available record. His career also includes 7 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Matthew Sommers' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Kent State

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonKent State0
2015 Regular SeasonKent State000
2016 Regular SeasonKent State4.511.23.44.5
2017 Regular SeasonKent State1.59.51.6-3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Monmouth

Week 3 · W 27-7

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

57.5 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.

#2

@ Ohio

Week 8 · L 3-48 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

48.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.1 takeover score.

#3

@ Central Michigan

Week 9 · W 27-24 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

35.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 35.6 takeover score.

#4

vs Northern Illinois

Week 13 · L 21-31 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

34.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.5 takeover score.

#5

@ Marshall

Week 3 · L 0-21

0.5

Havoc Plays

26.1 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 26.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2015 Regular Season · Kent State

0 primary output · 0 efficiency · usage

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#2

2016 Regular Season · Kent State

44.9

4.5 primary · 11.2 efficiency · 3.4 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · Kent State

16.8

1.5 primary · 9.5 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games