Player Dossier

2016-2020

Iowa

Chauncey Golston

DL • 6'5" • 270 lbs • Detroit, MI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Chauncey Golston shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 47.2 disruption score.

Usage Score

13.2

Efficiency

47.2

Consistency

70

Season Value

51.2

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Iowa

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
7
Program Path
Iowa
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Michigan

Scouting Read

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Chauncey Golston, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Iowa. Chauncey Golston shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 47.2 disruption score.

Chauncey Golston played DL for Iowa. Across 5 tracked seasons, Chauncey Golston recorded 128 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Iowa.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Iowa paired 19 primary output with 47.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 47.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Penn State

Win with 4 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 · Iowa

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

2.4

Efficiency

47.2

Usage

13.2

Consistency

70

Best Game by takeover score

Penn State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Purdue: 1. Northwestern: 3. Michigan State: 3.5. Minnesota: 0.5. Penn State: 4. Nebraska: 3. Illinois: 1. Wisconsin: 3

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. Purdue: 3 by 22.5. Northwestern: 7 by 59.2. Michigan State: 6 by 60. Minnesota: 4 by 21.7. Penn State: 4 by 56.7. Nebraska: 4 by 46.7. Illinois: 8 by 43.3. Wisconsin: 9 by 67.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.5 · Games = 6 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses2 · Games = 2 · -0.5 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

Penn State

Best efficiency game

67.5 vs Wisconsin

Result
Sat 12/12vs WisconsinSplash gameW 28-794110
Sat 12/5@ IllinoisW 35-21840.500.500
Fri 11/27vs NebraskaSplash gameW 26-2042110
Sat 11/21@ Penn StateSplash gameW 41-21422110
Sat 11/14@ MinnesotaW 35-7430.5000
Sat 11/7vs Michigan StateSplash gameW 49-76321.500
Sat 10/31vs NorthwesternSplash gameL 20-21741.500.500
Sat 10/24@ PurdueL 20-2432001

Career Arc

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    Iowa

    2016-2020

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2016201720182018201920192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonIowa04.20.6
2017 Regular SeasonIowa04.20.80
2018 PostseasonIowa17.524.89.117.5
2018 Regular SeasonIowa17.524.89.10
2019 PostseasonIowa25.534.79.78
2019 Regular SeasonIowa25.534.79.70
2020 Regular SeasonIowa1947.213.2-6.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Michigan

Loss with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5

Primary metric

5 disruption/tackle impact with 72.7 takeover score.

#2

Penn State

4

Primary metric

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 57.3 takeover score.

#3

Illinois

4

Primary metric

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 56.2 takeover score.

#4

Michigan State

3.5

Primary metric

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 54.8 takeover score.

#5

Purdue

4.5

Primary metric

Win with 4.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 54.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Iowa

19 primary output · 47.2 efficiency · 13.2 usage

51.2

#2

2019 Postseason · Iowa

50

25.5 primary · 34.7 efficiency · 9.7 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Iowa

50

25.5 primary · 34.7 efficiency · 9.7 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

16

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit context is not available for this player in the current dataset.

Career Facts

1

Career teams

7

Seasons tracked

128

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 7 tracked seasons, 37 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.