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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2009-2012Missouri
Zaviar Gooden
LB • 6'2" • Pflugerville, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Zaviar Gooden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.
Impact Production
80
High-end production for a linebacker
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
68
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2010 Regular Season · Missouri
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Missouri
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Texas Tech
Player Story
Zaviar Gooden built his college career from 2009 through 2012 as a linebacker from Pflugerville, TX wearing No. 25, spending time with Missouri. The clearest part of Zaviar Gooden's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Missouri
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2008
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2013
- Selection
- Round 3 · Pick 35
- Overall
- No. 97
- NFL Team
- Tennessee Titans
Zaviar Gooden, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2010 Regular Season · Missouri. Zaviar Gooden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Touchdowns
- 1
Quick Answers
Zaviar Gooden quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Missouri · LB
- Career Tackles
- 0
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2010 Regular Season · Missouri
- Top game
- Texas Tech
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Pflugerville · Missouri
- High school pipeline
- Pflugerville · 16 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2013 · Round 3 · Pick 35 · Tennessee Titans
- Latest roster
- No. 25 · Class 2012
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Regular Season | Missouri | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2010 Regular Season | Missouri | 2 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 73.3 |
| 2011 Postseason | Missouri | 2 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 73.3 |
| 2011 Regular Season | Missouri | 2 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 73.3 |
| 2012 Regular Season | Missouri | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 1 | 56.7 |
Related Context
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Zaviar Gooden played LB for Missouri. Across 4 tracked seasons, Zaviar Gooden recorded 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2012 with Missouri.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2010 Regular Season
Missouri paired 2 primary output with 20 efficiency.
Supporting note
2012 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 20 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2012 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: SE Louisiana
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2012 Regular Season · Missouri
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
20
Usage
—
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
SE Louisiana
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All Games1 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
SE Louisiana
Best efficiency game
20 vs SE Louisiana
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 9/1 | vs SE Louisiana | W 62-10 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
Player Story
Zaviar Gooden story
Zaviar Gooden built his college career from 2009 through 2012 as a linebacker from Pflugerville, TX wearing No. 25, spending time with Missouri. The clearest part of Zaviar Gooden's career was his defensive production: 5 interceptions across 5 career games in the available record. That gives Zaviar Gooden's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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Missouri
2009-2012
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Regular Season | Missouri | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2010 Regular Season | Missouri | 2 | 20 | — | 2 |
| 2011 Postseason | Missouri | 2 | 20 | — | 0 |
| 2011 Regular Season | Missouri | 2 | 20 | — | 0 |
| 2012 Regular Season | Missouri | 1 | 20 | — | -1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Texas Tech
Week 10 · L 17-24 · Conference game
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
60 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
#2
vs Oklahoma
Week 8 · W 36-27 · 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.
#3
@ North Carolina
Week 1 · W 41-24 · Postseason
1
Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
#4
@ Kansas
Week 13 · W 24-10 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
#5
vs SE Louisiana
Week 1 · W 62-10
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Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2010 Regular Season · Missouri
2 primary output · 20 efficiency · — usage
73.3
#2
2011 Postseason · Missouri
73.3
2 primary · 20 efficiency · — usage
#3
2011 Regular Season · Missouri
73.3
2 primary · 20 efficiency · — usage
Milestones
5
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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