Player Dossier

2017-2021

Nebraska

Ben Stille

DL • 6'5" • 295 lbs • Ashland, NE, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ben Stille shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

46%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

59

Solid production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

44

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

71

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Nebraska

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Nebraska
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Illinois

Player Story

Ben Stille built his college career from 2017 through 2021 as a defensive lineman from Ashland, NE wearing No. 95, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Ben Stille's career was his defensive production:...

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Ben Stille, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Nebraska. Ben Stille shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
149
TFL
32
Sacks
14.5
QB hurries
21
Passes defended
7

Quick Answers

Ben Stille quick answers

Latest team and position
Nebraska · DL
Career Tackles
149
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 51 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · Nebraska
Top game
Illinois
Latest roster
No. 95 · Senior
2021 Tackles rank
42 tackles · DL 58th (top 7%) · Big Ten 90th (top 15%) · National 848th (top 15%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2017 Regular SeasonNebraska924103.511069.9
2018 Regular SeasonNebraska11255562062.6
2019 Regular SeasonNebraska11318351065.1
2020 Regular SeasonNebraska82731.53-045.1
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska124261.563058.8

Related Context

Ben Stille played DL for Nebraska. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ben Stille recorded 149 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Nebraska.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

Nebraska paired 15.5 primary output with 28.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 23.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2021 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Purdue

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2020 Regular Season · Nebraska

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.9

Efficiency

23.4

Usage

7.1

Consistency

56.2

Best Game by takeover score

Purdue

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ohio State: 0.5. Northwestern: 0. Penn State: 1. Illinois: 0. Iowa: 1. Purdue: 3. Minnesota: 1. Rutgers: 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. Ohio State: 3 by 17.5. Northwestern: 4 by 16.7. Penn State: 3 by 22.5. Illinois: 4 by 16.7. Iowa: 5 by 30.8. Purdue: 5 by 50.8. Minnesota: 2 by 18.3. Rutgers: 1 by 14.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.7 · Games = 3 · +1.2 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 5 · -1.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Purdue

Best efficiency game

50.8 vs Purdue

Result
Sat 12/19@ RutgersW 28-2110000
Sat 12/12vs MinnesotaL 17-2420000
Sat 12/5@ PurdueSplash gameW 37-27541.501.500
Fri 11/27@ IowaL 20-2653100
Sat 11/21vs IllinoisL 23-4141000
Sat 11/14vs Penn StateW 30-2331000
Sat 11/7@ NorthwesternL 13-2142000
Sat 10/24@ Ohio StateL 17-52320.5000

Player Story

Ben Stille story

Ben Stille built his college career from 2017 through 2021 as a defensive lineman from Ashland, NE wearing No. 95, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Ben Stille's career was his defensive production: 149 tackles, 32 tackles for loss, 14.5 sacks, and 7 passes defended across 51 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2021 with Nebraska. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Ben Stille's production has multiple signals. With 51 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Nebraska.

The arc is straightforward: Ben Stille moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Nebraska

    2017-2021

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20172018201920202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonNebraska15.528.313.5
2018 Regular SeasonNebraska1825.88.32.5
2019 Regular SeasonNebraska1727.29.6-1
2020 Regular SeasonNebraska7.523.47.1-9.5
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska16.528.38.49

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Illinois

Week 5 · W 28-6 · Conference game

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4

Havoc Plays

85.6 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 85.6 takeover score.

#2

vs Buffalo

Week 2 · W 28-3

3.5

Havoc Plays

83.9 takeover

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 83.9 takeover score.

#3

@ Purdue

Week 14 · W 37-27 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

83.6 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Purdue

Week 10 · L 27-31 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

82.2 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Iowa

Week 13 · L 21-28 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

80.2 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · Nebraska

15.5 primary output · 28.3 efficiency · 13.5 usage

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#2

2019 Regular Season · Nebraska

65.1

17 primary · 27.2 efficiency · 9.6 usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · Nebraska

62.6

18 primary · 25.8 efficiency · 8.3 usage

Milestones

16

Impact games

22

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games