Player Dossier

2015-2017

Penn State

Colin Castagna

DE • 6'4" • 257 lbs • Barrington, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Colin Castagna shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for an edge defender

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Penn State

151617

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Penn State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Purdue

Colin Castagna, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Penn State. Colin Castagna shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4
TFL
1

Quick Answers

Colin Castagna quick answers

Latest team and position
Penn State · DE
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 4 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Penn State
Top game
Purdue
Latest roster
No. 46 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
1 tackles · DE 339th (top 94%) · Big Ten 511th (top 83%) · National 4,755th (top 83%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonPenn State00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonPenn State3310--036.9
2017 Regular SeasonPenn State11-0--036.4

Related Context

Colin Castagna played DE for Penn State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Colin Castagna recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Penn State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Penn State paired 1 primary output with 7.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 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: Pittsburgh

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

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2017 Regular Season · Penn State

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.6

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

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All Games0 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Pittsburgh

Result
Sat 9/9vs PittsburghW 33-1410000

Career Arc

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

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    Penn State

    2015-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201520162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonPenn State0
2016 Regular SeasonPenn State17.53.51
2017 Regular SeasonPenn State04.20.6-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Purdue

Week 9 · W 62-24 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

63.1 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

#2

@ Rutgers

Week 12 · W 39-0 · 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.

#3

vs Pittsburgh

Week 2 · W 33-14

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Ohio State

Week 8 · W 24-21 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

2.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 2.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Regular Season · Penn State

1 primary output · 7.5 efficiency · 3.5 usage

36.9

#2

2017 Regular Season · Penn State

36.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

#3

2015 Regular Season · Penn State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games