Usage Score
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Player Dossier
2014-2018Iowa
Aaron Mends
LB • 6'0" • 228 lbs • Kansas City, MO, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Aaron Mends shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.
Efficiency
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Consistency
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Season Value
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season · Iowa
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Seasons Tracked
- 6
- Program Path
- Iowa
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Florida
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.
Aaron Mends, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season · Iowa. Aaron Mends shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.
Aaron Mends played LB for Iowa. Across 5 tracked seasons, Aaron Mends recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Iowa.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season
Iowa paired 0 primary output with 6.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2018 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with — efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2018 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Northern Illinois
Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2018 Regular Season · Iowa
Games
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Usage
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Consistency
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Best Game by takeover score
Northern Illinois
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Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Northern Illinois
Best efficiency game
12.5 vs Northern Illinois
| Result | |||||||||||
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| Sat 8/31 | @ Northern Illinois | — | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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Iowa
2014-2018
Opening stop
Season Progression
201420152016201620172018
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
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| 2014 Regular Season | Iowa | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2015 Regular Season | Iowa | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Postseason | Iowa | 2 | 12.2 | 5.2 | 2 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Iowa | 2 | 12.2 | 5.2 | 0 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Iowa | 0 | 6.9 | 1.2 | -2 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Iowa | 0 | — | — | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
Florida
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Primary metric
2 disruption/tackle impact with 45.9 takeover score.
#2
Northern Illinois
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Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.3 takeover score.
#3
Iowa State
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Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
#4
Ohio State
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Primary metric
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
#5
Iowa State
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Primary metric
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by value score
2017 Regular Season · Iowa
0 primary output · 6.9 efficiency · 1.2 usage
36.1
#2
2016 Postseason · Iowa
15.5
2 primary · 12.2 efficiency · 5.2 usage
#3
2016 Regular Season · Iowa
15.5
2 primary · 12.2 efficiency · 5.2 usage
Milestones
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Impact games
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Splash games
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10+ tackle games
Bio, Recruit, and Data Context
Recruit Profile
3★
Class 2022 · Rating 0.8685
Lakota East · Middletown, OH
- Committed To
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- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Career Facts
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Career teams
6
Seasons tracked
9
Career Tackles
Data Context
Coverage spans 6 tracked seasons, 7 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.