Player Dossier

2014-2017

Pittsburgh

Brian Popp

LB • 6'0" • 235 lbs • Loveland, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brian Popp shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

11

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

4

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Pittsburgh
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Miami

Brian Popp, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh. Brian Popp shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
9

Quick Answers

Brian Popp quick answers

Latest team and position
Pittsburgh · LB
Career Tackles
9
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 6 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh
Top game
Miami
Latest roster
No. 53 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
9 tackles · LB 721st (top 66%) · ACC 286th (top 48%) · National 2,774th (top 49%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00-0--0-
2017 Regular SeasonPittsburgh69-0--039.5

Related Context

Brian Popp played LB for Pittsburgh. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brian Popp recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Pittsburgh.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

Pittsburgh paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2017 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Miami

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

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

6.3

Usage

1.5

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Miami

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Rice: 0. Duke: 0. Virginia: 0. North Carolina: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. Miami: 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. Rice: 1 by 4.2. Duke: 1 by 4.2. Virginia: 1 by 4.2. North Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Virginia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Miami: 4 by 16.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +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

Miami

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Miami

Result
Fri 11/24vs MiamiW 24-1442000
Sat 11/18@ Virginia TechL 14-2011000
Fri 11/10vs North CarolinaL 31-3411000
Sat 10/28vs VirginiaW 31-1410000
Sat 10/21@ DukeW 24-1710000
Sat 9/30vs RiceW 42-1010000

Career Arc

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

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    Pittsburgh

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonPittsburgh0
2015 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00
2016 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00
2017 Regular SeasonPittsburgh06.31.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Miami

Week 13 · W 24-14 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

18.1 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 18.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Rice

Week 5 · W 42-10

0

Havoc Plays

4.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.7 takeover score.

#3

@ Duke

Week 8 · W 24-17 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#4

vs North Carolina

Week 11 · L 31-34 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

@ Virginia Tech

Week 12 · L 14-20 · 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.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1.5 usage

39.5

#2

2014 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2015 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games