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Player Dossier
2014-2017Boise State
Leighton Vander Esch
? • 6'4" • 240 lbs • Riggins, ID, USA
Impact contributor
Leighton Vander Esch shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.
Impact Production
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Production sample still building
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
93
Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Boise State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Boise State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico
Player Story
Leighton Vander Esch built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a player from Riggins, ID wearing No. 38, spending time with Boise State. The clearest part of Leighton Vander Esch's career was his defensive...
Read the storyNFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2018
- Selection
- Round 1 · Pick 19
- Overall
- No. 19
- NFL Team
- Dallas Cowboys
Leighton Vander Esch, ?. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Boise State. Leighton Vander Esch shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Rushing yards
- 10
Quick Answers
Leighton Vander Esch quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Boise State · ?
- Career Touchdowns
- 0
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 21 games
- Best season
- 2015 Regular Season · Boise State
- Top game
- New Mexico
- NFL Draft
- 2018 · Round 1 · Pick 19 · Dallas Cowboys
- Latest roster
- No. 38 · Class 2017
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | TD | Primary | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Boise State | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2015 Regular Season | Boise State | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2016 Postseason | Boise State | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Boise State | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2017 Postseason | Boise State | 14 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Boise State | 14 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Related Context
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Leighton Vander Esch played ? for Boise State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Leighton Vander Esch recorded 10 rushing yards and 168 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Boise State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season
Boise State paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.
Supporting note
2017 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with — efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2017 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon
Win with a strong all-around stat line. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2017 Postseason · Boise State
Games
14
Primary Metric / G
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Efficiency
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Usage
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Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Oregon
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Oregon: 0. Troy: 0. Washington State: 0. New Mexico: 0. Virginia: 0. BYU: 0. San Diego State: 0. Wyoming: 0. Utah State: 0. Nevada: 0. Colorado State: 0. Air Force: 0. Fresno State: 0. Fresno State: 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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Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 11 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
14 games
Featured metric
Touchdowns
Top game by takeover score
Oregon
Best efficiency game
— vs Oregon
| Result | ||||||||||||||
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| Sat 12/16 | @ Oregon | W 38-28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 12/3 | vs Fresno State | W 17-14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/25 | @ Fresno State | L 17-28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 11/19 | vs Air Force | W 44-19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 11/12 | @ Colorado State | W 59-52 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/4 | vs Nevada | W 41-14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 10/29 | @ Utah State | W 41-14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 10/22 | vs Wyoming | W 24-14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 10/15 | @ San Diego State | W 31-14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | @ BYU | W 24-7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/23 | vs Virginia | L 23-42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fri 9/15 | vs New Mexico | W 28-14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 9/10 | @ Washington State | L 44-47 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/2 | vs Troy | W 24-13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Player Story
Leighton Vander Esch story
Leighton Vander Esch built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a player from Riggins, ID wearing No. 38, spending time with Boise State. The clearest part of Leighton Vander Esch's career was his defensive production: 168 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, 5 sacks, and 4 interceptions across 21 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2017 with Boise State. 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 Leighton Vander Esch's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 10 rushing yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 21 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Boise State.
The arc is straightforward: Leighton Vander Esch 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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Boise State
2014-2017
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
201420152016201620172017
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
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| 2014 Regular Season | Boise State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2015 Regular Season | Boise State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Postseason | Boise State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Boise State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2017 Postseason | Boise State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Boise State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs New Mexico
Week 11 · L 24-31 · Conference game
Loss with a strong all-around stat line.
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Touchdowns
0 takeover
0 primary-metric impact.
#2
@ Baylor
Week 1 · L 12-31 · Postseason
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Touchdowns
0 takeover
Loss with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#3
@ Air Force
Week 13 · L 20-27 · Conference game
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Touchdowns
0 takeover
Loss with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#4
vs Utah State
Week 5 · W 21-10 · Conference game
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Touchdowns
0 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#5
@ Oregon State
Week 4 · W 38-24
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Touchdowns
0 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2015 Regular Season · Boise State
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#2
2016 Postseason · Boise State
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#3
2016 Regular Season · Boise State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
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Impact games
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Splash games
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10+ tackle games
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