Player Dossier

2015-2016

Texas Tech

D'Vonta Hinton

LB • 5'9" • Texas City, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

D'Vonta Hinton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

16%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

40

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

60

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

45

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Texas Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Stephen F. Austin

Player Story

D'Vonta Hinton built his college career from 2015 through 2016 as a linebacker from Texas City, TX wearing No. 34, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of D'Vonta Hinton's career was his defensive...

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4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9027

American Heritage · Fort Lauderdale, FL

Committed To
NC State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

D'Vonta Hinton, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech. D'Vonta Hinton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
19
TFL
1
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

D'Vonta Hinton quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas Tech · LB
Career Tackles
19
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech
Top game
Stephen F. Austin
Recruit profile
4-star · American Heritage · NC State
High school pipeline
American Heritage · 80 FBS recruits · 10 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 34 · Class 2016
2016 Tackles rank
19 tackles · LB 532nd (top 52%) · Big 12 159th (top 36%) · National 2,025th (top 36%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonTexas Tech519101-042.5

Related Context

D'Vonta Hinton played LB for Texas Tech. Across 2 tracked seasons, D'Vonta Hinton recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Texas Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Texas Tech paired 2 primary output with 19.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2016 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2016 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Stephen F. Austin

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

19.8

Usage

4.4

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Stephen F. Austin

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Stephen F. Austin: 1. Louisiana Tech: 0. Kansas: 1. Kansas State: 0. West Virginia: 0

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. Stephen F. Austin: 3 by 22.5. Louisiana Tech: 6 by 25. Kansas: 2 by 18.3. Kansas State: 5 by 20.8. West Virginia: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Stephen F. Austin

Best efficiency game

25 vs Louisiana Tech

Result
Sat 10/15vs West VirginiaL 17-4833000
Sat 10/8@ Kansas StateL 38-4455000
Fri 9/30vs KansasW 55-1922000
Sat 9/17vs Louisiana TechW 59-4564000
Sun 9/4vs Stephen F. AustinW 69-1733100

Player Story

D'Vonta Hinton story

D'Vonta Hinton built his college career from 2015 through 2016 as a linebacker from Texas City, TX wearing No. 34, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of D'Vonta Hinton's career was his defensive production: 19 tackles and 1 tackle for loss across 5 career games in the available record. That gives D'Vonta Hinton's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Texas Tech

    2015-2016

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20152016
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonTexas Tech0
2016 Regular SeasonTexas Tech219.84.42

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Stephen F. Austin

Week 1 · W 69-17

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

54.4 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Kansas

Week 5 · W 55-19 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

51.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Louisiana Tech

Week 3 · W 59-45

0

Havoc Plays

23.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 23.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Kansas State

Week 6 · L 38-44 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

21.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.1 takeover score.

#5

vs West Virginia

Week 7 · L 17-48 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

11.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech

2 primary output · 19.8 efficiency · 4.4 usage

42.5

#2

2015 Regular Season · Texas Tech

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games