Player Dossier

2014-2017

Indiana

Tegray Scales

LB • 6'0" • 230 lbs • Cincinnati, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tegray Scales shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

87%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

87

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

87

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Indiana

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Indiana
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Wake Forest

Player Story

Tegray Scales built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a linebacker from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 8, spending time with Indiana. The clearest part of Tegray Scales' career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.8794

Colerain · Cincinnati, OH

Committed To
Indiana
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Tegray Scales, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Indiana. Tegray Scales shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
200
TFL
34
Sacks
12
QB hurries
6
Passes defended
2
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Tegray Scales quick answers

Latest team and position
Indiana · LB
Career Tackles
200
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 30 games
Best season
2016 Postseason · Indiana
Top game
Wake Forest
Recruit profile
3-star · Colerain · Indiana
High school pipeline
Colerain · 50 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 8 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
77 tackles · LB 147th (top 14%) · Big Ten 27th (top 5%) · National 246th (top 5%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonIndiana30-0--042.7
2015 Regular SeasonIndiana20-0--041.8
2016 PostseasonIndiana131032--078.5
2016 Regular SeasonIndiana1311320.5541278.5
2017 Regular SeasonIndiana127710.5521059.1

Related Context

Tegray Scales played LB for Indiana. Across 4 tracked seasons, Tegray Scales recorded 200 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Indiana.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Postseason

Indiana paired 36.5 primary output with 64.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 43.8 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: Penn State

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2017 Regular Season · Indiana

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

1.7

Efficiency

43.8

Usage

12.6

Consistency

36.3

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. Ohio State: 0. Virginia: 2. Georgia Southern: 1. Penn State: 6. Charleston Southern: 1. Michigan: 0. Michigan State: 1. Maryland: 2.5. Wisconsin: 1. Illinois: 2. Rutgers: 1. Purdue: 3

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. Ohio State: 12 by 50. Virginia: 8 by 53.3. Georgia Southern: 6 by 35. Penn State: 11 by 95.8. Charleston Southern: 5 by 30.8. Michigan: 6 by 25. Michigan State: 8 by 43.3. Maryland: 8 by 58.3. Illinois: 4 by 36.7. Rutgers: 3 by 22.5. Purdue: 6 by 55

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.4 · Games = 5 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses1.9 · Games = 7 · +0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Penn State

Best efficiency game

95.8 vs Penn State

Result
Sat 11/25@ PurdueSplash gameL 24-3165111
Sat 11/18vs RutgersW 41-032100
Sat 11/11@ IllinoisSplash gameW 24-14420010
Sat 11/4vs WisconsinL 17-451
Sat 10/28@ MarylandSplash gameL 39-428520.500
Sat 10/21@ Michigan StateL 9-1782000
Sat 10/14vs MichiganL 20-2765000
Sat 10/7vs Charleston SouthernW 27-054100
Sat 9/30@ Penn State10+ tackles · 2+ sacksL 14-45117330
Sat 9/23vs Georgia SouthernW 52-1764100
Sat 9/9@ VirginiaSplash gameW 34-17841.500.500
Fri 9/1vs Ohio State10+ tacklesL 21-49129000

Player Story

Tegray Scales story

Tegray Scales built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a linebacker from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 8, spending time with Indiana. The clearest part of Tegray Scales' career was his defensive production: 200 tackles, 34 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, and 8 interceptions across 30 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with Indiana. 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 Tegray Scales' production has multiple signals. With 30 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Indiana.

The arc is straightforward: Tegray Scales 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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    Indiana

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20142015201620162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonIndiana320
2015 Regular SeasonIndiana220-1
2016 PostseasonIndiana36.564.720.334.5
2016 Regular SeasonIndiana36.564.720.30
2017 Regular SeasonIndiana20.543.812.6-16

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Wake Forest

Week 4 · L 28-33

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

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Havoc Plays

100 takeover

6 disruption/tackle impact with 100 takeover score.

#2

@ Penn State

Week 5 · L 14-45 · Conference game

6

Havoc Plays

98.6 takeover

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 98.6 takeover score.

#3

vs Penn State

Week 11 · L 31-45 · Conference game

6

Havoc Plays

95.8 takeover

Loss with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 95.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Utah

Week 1 · L 24-26 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

91.7 takeover

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 91.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Purdue

Week 13 · W 26-24 · Conference game

5

Havoc Plays

88.9 takeover

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Postseason · Indiana

36.5 primary output · 64.7 efficiency · 20.3 usage

78.5

#2

2016 Regular Season · Indiana

78.5

36.5 primary · 64.7 efficiency · 20.3 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · Indiana

59.1

20.5 primary · 43.8 efficiency · 12.6 usage

Milestones

17

Impact games

13

Splash games

10

10+ tackle games