Player Dossier

2017-2021

Texas Tech

Jacob Morgenstern

LB • 6'4" • 220 lbs • LaGrange, NY, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jacob Morgenstern shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

12%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

48

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

36

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

57

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Texas Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Duke • Texas Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State

Player Story

Jacob Morgenstern built his college career from 2017 through 2021 as a linebacker from LaGrange, NY wearing No. 24, spending time with Duke and Texas Tech. The clearest part of Jacob Morgenstern's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8475

Hoover · Hoover, AL

Committed To
Duke
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Jacob Morgenstern, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Texas Tech. Jacob Morgenstern shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
46
TFL
5.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Jacob Morgenstern quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas Tech · LB
Career Tackles
46
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 21 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Texas Tech
Top game
Kansas State
Recruit profile
3-star · Hoover · Duke
High school pipeline
Hoover · 53 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Senior
2021 Tackles rank
6 tackles · LB 870th (top 70%) · Big 12 233rd (top 52%) · National 3,184th (top 54%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2017 Regular SeasonDuke00-0--0-
2018 Regular SeasonDuke11-0--037.2
2019 Regular SeasonDuke67-0--037.2
2020 Regular SeasonTexas Tech10324.5031058.3
2021 Regular SeasonTexas Tech46112-046.5

Related Context

Jacob Morgenstern played LB for Duke and Texas Tech. Across 5 tracked seasons, Jacob Morgenstern recorded 46 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Texas Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Texas Tech paired 8.5 primary output with 21.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2021 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Duke, Texas Tech.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Florida International

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2021 Regular Season · Texas Tech

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

16.3

Usage

6.5

Consistency

68.1

Best Game by takeover score

Florida International

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Houston: 0. Florida International: 2. Kansas: 1. Oklahoma State: 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. Houston: 1 by 4.2. Florida International: 3 by 32.5. Kansas: 2 by 18.3. Oklahoma State: 0 by 10

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Florida International

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Florida International

Result
Sun 11/21vs Oklahoma StateL 0-2300000
Sat 10/16@ KansasW 41-1422000
Sat 9/18vs Florida InternationalSplash gameW 54-2133110
Sat 9/4@ HoustonW 38-2111000

Player Story

Jacob Morgenstern story

Jacob Morgenstern built his college career from 2017 through 2021 as a linebacker from LaGrange, NY wearing No. 24, spending time with Duke and Texas Tech. The clearest part of Jacob Morgenstern's career was his defensive production: 46 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 pass defended across 21 career games in the available record. That gives Jacob Morgenstern's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Duke

    2017-2019

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Texas Tech

    2020-2021

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20172018201920202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonDuke0
2018 Regular SeasonDuke04.20.90
2019 Regular SeasonDuke04.90.80
2020 Regular SeasonTexas Tech8.521.86.38.5
2021 Regular SeasonTexas Tech416.36.5-4.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Kansas State

Week 5 · L 21-31 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Florida International

Week 3 · W 54-21

2

Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#3

vs Kansas

Week 14 · W 16-13 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

58.1 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 58.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Oklahoma

Week 9 · L 28-62 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

54.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Texas

Week 4 · L 56-63 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

50.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Texas Tech

8.5 primary output · 21.8 efficiency · 6.3 usage

58.3

#2

2021 Regular Season · Texas Tech

46.5

4 primary · 16.3 efficiency · 6.5 usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · Duke

37.2

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games