Player Dossier

2014-2017

Iowa

Miles Taylor

DB • 5'10" • 203 lbs • Silver Spring, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Miles Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

30%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

38

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

39

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

49

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Iowa

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Iowa
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Wyoming

Player Story

Miles Taylor built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a defensive back from Silver Spring, MD wearing No. 19, spending time with Iowa. The clearest part of Miles Taylor's career was his defensive...

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3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.8572

Gonzaga · Washington, DC

Committed To
Iowa
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Miles Taylor, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Iowa. Miles Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
92
TFL
1
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Miles Taylor quick answers

Latest team and position
Iowa · DB
Career Tackles
92
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 20 games
Best season
2015 Regular Season · Iowa
Top game
Wyoming
Recruit profile
3-star · Gonzaga · Iowa
High school pipeline
Gonzaga · 33 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 19 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
47 tackles · DB 178th (top 23%) · Big Ten 84th (top 14%) · National 787th (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonIowa00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonIowa10-0--056.7
2016 Regular SeasonIowa94510--027
2017 Regular SeasonIowa1047-011040.2

Related Context

Miles Taylor played DB for Iowa. Across 4 tracked seasons, Miles Taylor recorded 92 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Iowa.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season

Iowa paired 1 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 21.6 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: Wyoming

Win with 1 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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2017 Regular Season · Iowa

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

21.6

Usage

3.9

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Wyoming

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wyoming: 1. Iowa State: 0. North Texas: 0. Penn State: 0. Michigan State: 0. Illinois: 0. Ohio State: 0. Wisconsin: 1. Purdue: 0. Nebraska: 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. Wyoming: 8 by 43.3. Iowa State: 3 by 12.5. North Texas: 6 by 25. Penn State: 7 by 29.2. Michigan State: 4 by 16.7. Illinois: 2 by 8.3. Ohio State: 3 by 12.5. Wisconsin: 7 by 39.2. Purdue: 5 by 20.8. Nebraska: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.2 · Games = 6 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Wyoming

Best efficiency game

43.3 vs Wyoming

Result
Fri 11/24@ NebraskaW 56-1422000
Sat 11/18vs PurdueL 15-2454000
Sat 11/11@ WisconsinL 14-3874001
Sat 11/4vs Ohio StateW 55-2431000
Sat 10/7vs IllinoisW 45-1622000
Sat 9/30@ Michigan StateL 10-1744000
Sat 9/23vs Penn StateL 19-2176000
Sat 9/16vs North TexasW 31-1464000
Sat 9/9@ Iowa StateW 44-4130000
Sat 9/2vs WyomingW 24-384000

Player Story

Miles Taylor story

Miles Taylor built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a defensive back from Silver Spring, MD wearing No. 19, spending time with Iowa. The clearest part of Miles Taylor's career was his defensive production: 92 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 interception, and 1 pass defended across 20 career games in the available record. That gives Miles Taylor's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Iowa

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonIowa0
2015 Regular SeasonIowa1201
2016 Regular SeasonIowa121.93.90
2017 Regular SeasonIowa221.63.91

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Wyoming

Week 1 · W 24-3

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#2

@ Rutgers

Week 4 · W 14-7 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

71.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 71.9 takeover score.

#3

vs Maryland

Week 9 · W 31-15 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#4

@ Wisconsin

Week 11 · L 14-38 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

59.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.2 takeover score.

#5

vs North Texas

Week 3 · W 31-14

0

Havoc Plays

28.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 28.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2015 Regular Season · Iowa

1 primary output · 20 efficiency · usage

56.7

#2

2017 Regular Season · Iowa

40.2

2 primary · 21.6 efficiency · 3.9 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Iowa

27

1 primary · 21.9 efficiency · 3.9 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games