Player Dossier

2015-2018

UCLA

Nate Meadors

DB • 5'11" • 196 lbs • San Bernardino, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Nate Meadors shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

34%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

51

Solid production for a defensive back

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Reliability

53

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

62

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
UCLA
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arizona State

Player Story

Nate Meadors built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a defensive back from San Bernardino, CA wearing No. 22, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Nate Meadors' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8117

Olathe North · Olathe, KS

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Jan 1, 2022

Nate Meadors, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · UCLA. Nate Meadors shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
123
TFL
4
Sacks
2
Passes defended
17
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Nate Meadors quick answers

Latest team and position
UCLA · DB
Career Tackles
123
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 33 games
Best season
2017 Postseason · UCLA
Top game
Arizona State
Recruit profile
3-star · Olathe North
High school pipeline
Olathe North · 8 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 22 · Senior
2018 Tackles rank
33 tackles · DB 283rd (top 33%) · Pac-12 106th (top 21%) · National 1,250th (top 22%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA10-0--042.6
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA1036-0-6025.2
2017 PostseasonUCLA123-0--052.2
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA125121-9252.2
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA103321-2041.2

Related Context

Nate Meadors played DB for UCLA. Across 4 tracked seasons, Nate Meadors recorded 123 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2017 with UCLA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Postseason

UCLA paired 13 primary output with 29.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 20.7 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: Colorado

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Regular Season · UCLA

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

20.7

Usage

6.4

Consistency

44.4

Best Game by takeover score

Colorado

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Cincinnati: 1. Oklahoma: 1. Fresno State: 1. Colorado: 2. Washington: 0. California: 0. Utah: 0. Oregon: 0. Arizona State: 0. USC: 1

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. Cincinnati: 5 by 30.8. Oklahoma: 5 by 30.8. Fresno State: 5 by 30.8. Colorado: 2 by 28.3. Washington: 7 by 29.2. California: 2 by 8.3. Utah: 3 by 12.5. Oregon: 2 by 8.3. Arizona State: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 8 · +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

Colorado

Best efficiency game

30.8 vs Fresno State

Result
Sat 11/17vs USCW 34-271
Sat 11/10@ Arizona StateL 28-3122000
Sat 11/3@ OregonL 21-4222000
Sat 10/27vs UtahL 10-4130000
Sat 10/13@ CaliforniaW 30-721000
Sat 10/6vs WashingtonL 24-3176000
Sat 9/29@ ColoradoSplash gameL 16-3822110
Sun 9/16vs Fresno StateL 14-3855100
Sat 9/8@ OklahomaL 21-4954001
Sat 9/1vs CincinnatiL 17-2655001

Player Story

Nate Meadors story

Nate Meadors built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a defensive back from San Bernardino, CA wearing No. 22, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Nate Meadors' career was his defensive production: 123 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 3 interceptions across 33 career games in the available record. That gives Nate Meadors' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    UCLA

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20152016201720172018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA120
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA6212.45
2017 PostseasonUCLA1329.64.87
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA1329.64.80
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA620.76.4-7

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Arizona State

Week 11 · W 44-37 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

83.1 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Oregon

Week 8 · W 31-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

77.8 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.8 takeover score.

#3

@ Colorado

Week 5 · L 16-38 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

71.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Colorado

Week 9 · W 35-31 · 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 Fresno State

Week 3 · L 14-38

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Havoc Plays

58.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Postseason · UCLA

13 primary output · 29.6 efficiency · 4.8 usage

52.2

#2

2017 Regular Season · UCLA

52.2

13 primary · 29.6 efficiency · 4.8 usage

#3

2015 Regular Season · UCLA

42.6

1 primary · 20 efficiency · usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

7

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games