Player Dossier

2014-2016

Kentucky

Nico Firios

LB • 6'2" • Longwood, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Nico Firios shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 3.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Kentucky

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt
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Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.8572

Lyman · Longwood, FL

Committed To
Kentucky
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Nico Firios, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Kentucky. Nico Firios shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 3.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
5

Quick Answers

Nico Firios quick answers

Latest team and position
Kentucky · LB
Career Tackles
5
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 6 games
Best season
2016 Postseason · Kentucky
Top game
Vanderbilt
Recruit profile
3-star · Lyman · Kentucky
High school pipeline
Westlake · 34 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 40 · Class 2016
2016 Tackles rank
5 tackles · LB 803rd (top 78%) · SEC 382nd (top 63%) · National 3,365th (top 60%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonKentucky00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonKentucky00-0--0-
2016 PostseasonKentucky60-0--036.1
2016 Regular SeasonKentucky65-0--036.1

Related Context

Nico Firios played LB for Kentucky. Across 3 tracked seasons, Nico Firios recorded 5 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Postseason

Kentucky paired 0 primary output with 3.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2016 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 3.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2016 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt

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

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2016 Postseason · Kentucky

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

3.5

Usage

0.6

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Vanderbilt

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Georgia Tech: 0. Florida: 0. Alabama: 0. Vanderbilt: 0. Tennessee: 0. Austin Peay: 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. Florida: 1 by 4.2. Alabama: 1 by 4.2. Vanderbilt: 1 by 4.2. Tennessee: 1 by 4.2. Austin Peay: 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 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · +0 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

Vanderbilt

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Austin Peay

Result
Sat 12/31vs Georgia TechL 18-33
Sat 11/19vs Austin PeayW 49-1311000
Sat 11/12@ TennesseeL 36-4911000
Sat 10/8vs VanderbiltW 20-1311000
Sat 10/1@ AlabamaL 6-3410000
Sat 9/10@ FloridaL 7-4510000

Career Arc

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    Kentucky

    2014-2016

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162016
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonKentucky0
2015 Regular SeasonKentucky00
2016 PostseasonKentucky03.50.60
2016 Regular SeasonKentucky03.50.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Vanderbilt

Week 6 · W 20-13 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#2

@ Tennessee

Week 11 · L 36-49 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#3

@ Alabama

Week 5 · L 6-34 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

vs Austin Peay

Week 12 · W 49-13

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

#5

@ Florida

Week 2 · L 7-45 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Postseason · Kentucky

0 primary output · 3.5 efficiency · 0.6 usage

36.1

#2

2016 Regular Season · Kentucky

36.1

0 primary · 3.5 efficiency · 0.6 usage

#3

2014 Regular Season · Kentucky

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games