Usage / Role
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Regular defensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2014-2016East Carolina
Yiannis Bowden
OLB • 6'5" • Kernersville, NC, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Yiannis Bowden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28 disruption score.
Impact Production
72
High-end production for a linebacker
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Reliability
51
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
80
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · East Carolina
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- East Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Western Carolina
Player Story
Yiannis Bowden built his college career from 2014 through 2016 as an outside linebacker from Kernersville, NC wearing No. 46, spending time with East Carolina. The clearest part of Yiannis Bowden's career was his...
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- Committed To
- East Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2014
Yiannis Bowden, OLB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · East Carolina. Yiannis Bowden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 42
- TFL
- 7.5
- QB hurries
- 2
- Touchdowns
- 1
Quick Answers
Yiannis Bowden quick answers
- Latest team and position
- East Carolina · OLB
- Career Tackles
- 42
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2016 Regular Season · East Carolina
- Top game
- Western Carolina
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Glenn · East Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Glenn · 7 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 46 · Class 2016
- 2016 Tackles rank
- 42 tackles · OLB 25th (top 35%) · American Athletic 100th (top 20%) · National 964th (top 18%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | East Carolina | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2015 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 1 | 43.2 |
| 2016 Regular Season | East Carolina | 10 | 42 | 7.5 | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 60.1 |
Related Context
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Yiannis Bowden played OLB for East Carolina. Across 3 tracked seasons, Yiannis Bowden recorded 42 tackles and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2016 with East Carolina.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season
East Carolina paired 10.5 primary output with 28 efficiency.
Supporting note
2016 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 28 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2016 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Western Carolina
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2016 Regular Season · East Carolina
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
1.1
Efficiency
28
Usage
9.6
Consistency
32.5
Best Game by takeover score
Western Carolina
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Western Carolina: 4. NC State: 1.5. Virginia Tech: 1. UCF: 2. South Florida: 0. Cincinnati: 0. UConn: 0. Tulsa: 0. SMU: 2. Navy: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Western Carolina: 5 by 60.8. NC State: 5 by 35.8. Virginia Tech: 5 by 30.8. UCF: 1 by 24.2. South Florida: 3 by 12.5. Cincinnati: 8 by 33.3. UConn: 1 by 4.2. Tulsa: 1 by 4.2. SMU: 12 by 70. Navy: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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Wins1.8 · Games = 3 · +1.1 vs Losses
Losses0.7 · Games = 7 · -1.1 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Western Carolina
Best efficiency game
70 vs SMU
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/19 | vs Navy | L 31-66 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/12 | vs SMU10+ tackles · Splash game | L 31-55 | 12 | 7 | — | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/6 | @ Tulsa | L 24-45 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/29 | vs UConn | W 41-3 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/22 | @ Cincinnati | L 19-31 | 8 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/8 | @ South Florida | L 22-38 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/1 | vs UCFSplash game | L 29-47 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/24 | @ Virginia Tech | L 17-54 | 5 | 3 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/10 | vs NC State | W 33-30 | 5 | 4 | — | 1.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/3 | vs Western CarolinaSplash game | W 52-7 | 5 | 4 | — | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Yiannis Bowden story
Yiannis Bowden built his college career from 2014 through 2016 as an outside linebacker from Kernersville, NC wearing No. 46, spending time with East Carolina. The clearest part of Yiannis Bowden's career was his defensive production: 42 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, and 2 interceptions across 11 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with East Carolina. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Yiannis Bowden's production has multiple signals. With 11 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across East Carolina.
The arc is straightforward: Yiannis Bowden moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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East Carolina
2014-2016
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
201420152016
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | East Carolina | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2015 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1 | 20 | — | 1 |
| 2016 Regular Season | East Carolina | 10.5 | 28 | 9.6 | 9.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Western Carolina
Week 1 · W 52-7
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4
Havoc Plays
86.9 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 86.9 takeover score.
#2
vs SMU
Week 11 · L 31-55 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
73.3 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.3 takeover score.
#3
@ BYU
Week 6 · L 38-45
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Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
#4
vs NC State
Week 2 · W 33-30
1.5
Havoc Plays
57.8 takeover
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 57.8 takeover score.
#5
vs UCF
Week 5 · L 29-47 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
54.7 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2016 Regular Season · East Carolina
10.5 primary output · 28 efficiency · 9.6 usage
60.1
#2
2015 Regular Season · East Carolina
43.2
1 primary · 20 efficiency · — usage
#3
2014 Regular Season · East Carolina
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
3
Splash games
1
10+ tackle games
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