Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2017-2018Wake Forest
Jake Simpson
LB • 6'0" • 215 lbs • Buford, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Jake Simpson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
26
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
20
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
33
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Wake Forest
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Clemson
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- Committed To
- Wake Forest
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Jake Simpson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest. Jake Simpson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 9
- TFL
- 1
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Jake Simpson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Wake Forest · LB
- Career Tackles
- 9
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 8 games
- Best season
- 2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
- Top game
- Clemson
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Buford · Wake Forest
- High school pipeline
- Buford · 99 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 15 · Sophomore
- 2018 Tackles rank
- 5 tackles · LB 852nd (top 73%) · ACC 367th (top 59%) · National 3,289th (top 57%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 4 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.8 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 44.9 |
Related Context
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Jake Simpson played LB for Wake Forest. Across 2 tracked seasons, Jake Simpson recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with Wake Forest.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season
Wake Forest paired 2 primary output with 10.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2018 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2018 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Clemson
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
Games
4
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
10.2
Usage
2.3
Consistency
50
Best Game by takeover score
Clemson
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Tulane: 0. Towson: 1. Clemson: 1. Duke: 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. Tulane: 1 by 4.2. Towson: 0 by 10. Clemson: 1 by 14.2. Duke: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.7 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 1 · +0.7 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
Clemson
Best efficiency game
14.2 vs Clemson
Career Arc
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Wake Forest
2017-2018
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20172018
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | — |
| 2018 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 2 | 10.2 | 2.3 | 2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Clemson
Week 6 · L 3-63 · Conference game
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
55.6 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.6 takeover score.
#2
vs Towson
Week 2 · W 51-20
1
Havoc Plays
36.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.
#3
@ Duke
Week 13 · W 59-7 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
10.6 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.
#4
vs Utah State
Week 3 · W 46-10
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#5
vs Presbyterian
Week 1 · W 51-7
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2018 Regular Season · Wake Forest
2 primary output · 10.2 efficiency · 2.3 usage
44.9
#2
2017 Regular Season · Wake Forest
36.8
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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