Usage / Role
13%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2017-2018Coastal Carolina
James Heft
LB • 6'2" • 235 lbs • Covington, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
James Heft shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
30
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
17
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
44
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Coastal Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe
Player Story
James Heft built his college career from 2017 through 2018 as a linebacker from Covington, GA wearing No. 49, spending time with Coastal Carolina. The clearest part of James Heft's career was his defensive...
Read the storyJames Heft, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina. James Heft shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 39
- TFL
- 3
- Sacks
- 1
Quick Answers
James Heft quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Coastal Carolina · LB
- Career Tackles
- 39
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 13 games
- Best season
- 2017 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
- Top game
- UL Monroe
- Latest roster
- No. 49 · Senior
- 2018 Tackles rank
- 16 tackles · LB 599th (top 51%) · Sun Belt 182nd (top 39%) · National 2,180th (top 38%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 7 | 23 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 40.8 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 20.6 |
Related Context
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James Heft played LB for Coastal Carolina. Across 2 tracked seasons, James Heft recorded 39 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Coastal Carolina.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season
Coastal Carolina paired 3 primary output with 18 efficiency.
Supporting note
2018 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 12.8 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: Georgia Southern
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2018 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
0.2
Efficiency
12.8
Usage
3.7
Consistency
5.6
Best Game by takeover score
Georgia Southern
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. South Carolina: 0. UAB: 0. Campbell: 0. Troy: 0. UL Monroe: 0. Georgia Southern: 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. South Carolina: 3 by 12.5. UAB: 2 by 8.3. Campbell: 1 by 4.2. Troy: 1 by 4.2. Georgia Southern: 9 by 47.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
6 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Georgia Southern
Best efficiency game
47.5 vs Georgia Southern
Player Story
James Heft story
James Heft built his college career from 2017 through 2018 as a linebacker from Covington, GA wearing No. 49, spending time with Coastal Carolina. The clearest part of James Heft's career was his defensive production: 39 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 13 career games in the available record. His career also includes 16 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives James Heft's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Coastal Carolina
2017-2018
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20172018
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 3 | 18 | 4.9 | — |
| 2018 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 1 | 12.8 | 3.7 | -2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ UL Monroe
Week 5 · L 43-51 · Conference game
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
85 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 85 takeover score.
#2
vs Georgia Southern
Week 12 · L 17-41 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
82.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 82.5 takeover score.
#3
vs Western Illinois
Week 4 · L 10-52
0
Havoc Plays
36.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.
#4
@ South Carolina
Week 1 · L 15-49
0
Havoc Plays
10.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.3 takeover score.
#5
@ App State
Week 8 · L 29-37 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
6.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2017 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
3 primary output · 18 efficiency · 4.9 usage
40.8
#2
2018 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
20.6
1 primary · 12.8 efficiency · 3.7 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
1
Splash games
1
10+ tackle games
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