Player Dossier

2016-2017

Oregon State

Wesley Payne

ILB • 5'10" • 222 lbs • Maricopa, AZ, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Wesley Payne shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

17%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

27

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

42

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Oregon State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
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Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Oregon State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon

Player Story

Wesley Payne built his college career from 2016 through 2017 as an inside linebacker from Maricopa, AZ wearing No. 50, spending time with Oregon State. The clearest part of Wesley Payne's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8522

Cedar Grove · Ellenwood, GA

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Jan 1, 2022

Wesley Payne, ILB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Oregon State. Wesley Payne shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
20
TFL
2

Quick Answers

Wesley Payne quick answers

Latest team and position
Oregon State · ILB
Career Tackles
20
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 9 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · Oregon State
Top game
Oregon
Recruit profile
3-star · Cedar Grove
High school pipeline
Cedar Grove · 40 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 50 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
19 tackles · ILB 29th (top 61%) · Pac-12 194th (top 37%) · National 2,053rd (top 36%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonOregon State11-0--036.4
2017 Regular SeasonOregon State81920--042.3

Related Context

Wesley Payne played ILB for Oregon State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Wesley Payne recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Oregon State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

Oregon State paired 2 primary output with 12.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2017 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Oregon

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2017 Regular Season · Oregon State

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

12.4

Usage

5.8

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Oregon

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Portland State: 0. Colorado State: 0. Minnesota: 1. USC: 0. Colorado: 0. California: 0. Arizona State: 0. Oregon: 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. Portland State: 1 by 4.2. Colorado State: 1 by 4.2. Minnesota: 2 by 18.3. USC: 2 by 8.3. Colorado: 1 by 4.2. California: 3 by 12.5. Arizona State: 4 by 16.7. Oregon: 5 by 30.8

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 7 · +0.3 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

Oregon

Best efficiency game

30.8 vs Oregon

Result
Sun 11/26@ OregonL 10-6954100
Sat 11/18vs Arizona StateL 24-4042000
Sat 11/4@ CaliforniaL 23-3731000
Sat 10/14vs ColoradoL 33-3610000
Sat 10/7@ USCL 10-3821000
Sun 9/10vs MinnesotaL 14-4822100
Sat 9/2vs Portland StateW 35-3210000
Sat 8/26@ Colorado StateL 27-5811000

Player Story

Wesley Payne story

Wesley Payne built his college career from 2016 through 2017 as an inside linebacker from Maricopa, AZ wearing No. 50, spending time with Oregon State. The clearest part of Wesley Payne's career was his defensive production: 20 tackles and 2 tackles for loss across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Wesley Payne'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.

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    Oregon State

    2016-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonOregon State04.20.6
2017 Regular SeasonOregon State212.45.82

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Oregon

Week 13 · L 10-69 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

76.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 76.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Minnesota

Week 2 · L 14-48

1

Havoc Plays

72.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 72.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Arizona State

Week 12 · L 24-40 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

13.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.6 takeover score.

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@ California

Week 10 · L 23-37 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.

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@ USC

Week 6 · L 10-38 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · Oregon State

2 primary output · 12.4 efficiency · 5.8 usage

42.3

#2

2016 Regular Season · Oregon State

36.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games