Player Dossier

2014-2016

Michigan State

Vayante Copeland

CB • 5'11" • Dayton, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Vayante Copeland shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.7 disruption score.

Usage Score

7

Efficiency

25.7

Consistency

9.5

Season Value

12.6

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season · Michigan State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
3
Program Path
Michigan State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Vayante Copeland, CB. Best season Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season · Michigan State. Vayante Copeland shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.7 disruption score.

Vayante Copeland played CB for Michigan State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Vayante Copeland recorded 36 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Michigan State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season

Michigan State paired 1 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2016 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 25.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2016 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2016 Regular Season · Michigan State

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

25.7

Usage

7

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

Maryland

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Unknown: 0. Notre Dame: 2. Wisconsin: 0. Indiana: 1. BYU: 0. Northwestern: 0. Maryland: 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. Unknown: 6 by 25. Notre Dame: 3 by 32.5. Wisconsin: 8 by 33.3. Indiana: 4 by 26.7. BYU: 7 by 29.2. Northwestern: 5 by 20.8. Maryland: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Losses0.2 · Games = 5
First Half0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.8 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.8 vs First Half
All Games0.4 · Games = 7

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Notre Dame

Best efficiency game

33.3 vs Wisconsin

Result
Sat 10/22@ MarylandL 17-2833000
Sat 10/15vs NorthwesternL 40-5452000
Sat 10/8vs BYUL 14-3174000
Sun 10/2@ IndianaL 21-24430010
Sat 9/24vs WisconsinL 6-3083000
Sat 9/17@ Notre DameW 36-2833002
Fri 9/2vs Unknown62000

Career Arc

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

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    Michigan State

    2014-2016

    Opening stop

Season Progression

201420152016
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonMichigan State0
2015 Regular SeasonMichigan State1201
2016 Regular SeasonMichigan State325.772

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Western Michigan

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#2

Notre Dame

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 45.2 takeover score.

#3

Indiana

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.9 takeover score.

#4

Wisconsin

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.7 takeover score.

#5

BYU

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2015 Regular Season · Michigan State

1 primary output · 20 efficiency · usage

40.9

#2

2016 Regular Season · Michigan State

12.6

3 primary · 25.7 efficiency · 7 usage

#3

2014 Regular Season · Michigan State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

4★

Class 2014 · Rating 0.8913

Thurgood Marshall · Dayton, OH

Committed To
Michigan State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Career Facts

1

Career teams

3

Seasons tracked

36

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 3 tracked seasons, 8 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.