Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2015-2018Wake Forest
Nate Mays
LB • 6'1" • 225 lbs • Dalton, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Nate Mays shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.6 disruption score.
Impact Production
28
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
23
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
34
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Wake Forest
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Towson
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- Committed To
- Wake Forest
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2015
Nate Mays, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest. Nate Mays shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.6 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 19
Quick Answers
Nate Mays quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Wake Forest · LB
- Career Tackles
- 19
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 10 games
- Best season
- 2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
- Top game
- Towson
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Dalton · Wake Forest
- High school pipeline
- Dalton · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 35 · Junior
- 2018 Tackles rank
- 12 tackles · LB 671st (top 57%) · ACC 279th (top 45%) · National 2,500th (top 43%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2016 Postseason | Wake Forest | 4 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.1 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 4 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.1 |
| 2017 Postseason | Wake Forest | 3 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.6 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 3 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.6 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 3 | 12 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 45.7 |
Related Context
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Nate Mays played LB for Wake Forest. Across 4 tracked seasons, Nate Mays recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with Wake Forest.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season
Wake Forest paired 0 primary output with 16.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2018 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 16.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2018 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Towson
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
16.6
Usage
2.5
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Towson
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Towson: 0. Boston College: 0. Notre Dame: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Towson: 8 by 33.3. Boston College: 2 by 8.3. Notre Dame: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
3 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Towson
Best efficiency game
33.3 vs Towson
Career Arc
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Wake Forest
2015-2018
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
201520162016201720172018
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2016 Postseason | Wake Forest | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2017 Postseason | Wake Forest | 0 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | 16.6 | 2.5 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Towson
Week 2 · W 51-20
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Havoc Plays
24.4 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 24.4 takeover score.
#2
vs Notre Dame
Week 4 · L 27-56
0
Havoc Plays
6.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.
#3
vs Boston College
Week 3 · L 34-41 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
6.1 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.1 takeover score.
#4
vs Boston College
Week 13 · L 14-17 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#5
@ Louisville
Week 11 · L 12-44 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
0 primary output · 16.6 efficiency · 2.5 usage
45.7
#2
2016 Postseason · Wake Forest
37.1
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
#3
2016 Regular Season · Wake Forest
37.1
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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