Player Dossier

2017-2020

Kent State

Tony Butler

CB • 6'2" • 214 lbs • Lakewood, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tony Butler shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

45%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

46

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

37

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

55

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kent State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Nebraska • Kent State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green
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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8589

Alpharetta · Alpharetta, GA

Committed To
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Tony Butler, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kent State. Tony Butler shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
18
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Tony Butler quick answers

Latest team and position
Kent State · CB
Career Tackles
18
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 8 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Kent State
Top game
Bowling Green
Recruit profile
3-star · Alpharetta
High school pipeline
Alpharetta · 23 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Senior
2020 Tackles rank
15 tackles · CB 132nd (top 42%) · Mid-American 114th (top 27%) · National 1,739th (top 34%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2017 Regular SeasonNebraska22-0--036.4
2018 Regular SeasonNebraska10-0--033.3
2019 Regular SeasonNebraska11-0--036.4
2020 Regular SeasonKent State4150.50-2040.2

Related Context

Tony Butler played CB for Nebraska and Kent State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Tony Butler recorded 11 rushing yards and 18 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Kent State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Kent State paired 2.5 primary output with 21.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 21.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2020 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Nebraska, Kent State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green

Win with 2.5 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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2020 Regular Season · Kent State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

21.9

Usage

3.7

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Eastern Michigan: 0. Bowling Green: 2.5. Akron: 0. Buffalo: 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. Eastern Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 5 by 45.8. Akron: 5 by 20.8. Buffalo: 4 by 16.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 3 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Bowling Green

Best efficiency game

45.8 vs Bowling Green

Result
Sat 11/28@ BuffaloL 41-7043000
Wed 11/18vs AkronW 69-3553000
Wed 11/11@ Bowling GreenSplash gameW 62-24530.5002
Wed 11/4vs Eastern MichiganW 27-2311000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Nebraska

    2017-2019

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kent State

    2020

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2017201820192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonNebraska04.20.6
2018 Regular SeasonNebraska0000
2019 Regular SeasonNebraska04.20.60
2020 Regular SeasonKent State2.521.93.72.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Bowling Green

Week 11 · W 62-24 · Conference game

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Akron

Week 12 · W 69-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

18 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 18 takeover score.

#3

@ Buffalo

Week 13 · L 41-70 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

14.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.2 takeover score.

#4

vs Eastern Michigan

Week 10 · W 27-23 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

vs Iowa

Week 13 · L 14-56 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Kent State

2.5 primary output · 21.9 efficiency · 3.7 usage

40.2

#2

2017 Regular Season · Nebraska

36.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Nebraska

36.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games