Player Dossier

2017-2022

Kansas

Caleb Sampson

DL • 6'3" • 305 lbs • Covington, LA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Caleb Sampson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

24%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

35

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

38

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

44

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Kansas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Missouri • Kansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Baylor

Player Story

Caleb Sampson built his college career from 2017 through 2022 as a defensive lineman from Covington, LA wearing No. 98, spending time with Kansas and Missouri. The clearest part of Caleb Sampson's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2017 · Rating 0.8059

Northlake Christian School · Covington, LA

Committed To
Missouri
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2017

Caleb Sampson, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Kansas. Caleb Sampson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
70
TFL
11
Sacks
5.5
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
6

Quick Answers

Caleb Sampson quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas · DL
Career Tackles
70
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 33 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Kansas
Top game
Baylor
Recruit profile
3-star · Northlake Christian School · Missouri
High school pipeline
Northlake Christian School · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 98 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
19 tackles · DL 345th (top 35%) · Big 12 144th (top 32%) · National 1,930th (top 33%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2017 Regular SeasonMissouri00-0--0-
2018 Regular SeasonKansas00-0--0-
2019 Regular SeasonKansas91222-3045.1
2020 Regular SeasonKansas615201-039.2
2021 Regular SeasonKansas9243.51-1038.2
2022 Regular SeasonKansas9193.52.5-2045.6

Related Context

Caleb Sampson played DL for Missouri and Kansas. Across 6 tracked seasons, Caleb Sampson recorded 70 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Kansas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Kansas paired 8 primary output with 17.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 15.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Missouri, Kansas.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Texas Tech

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

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2020 Regular Season · Kansas

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

15.4

Usage

6.5

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Texas Tech

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Coastal Carolina: 0. Baylor: 1. Oklahoma State: 0. West Virginia: 1. Iowa State: 0. Texas Tech: 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. Coastal Carolina: 3 by 12.5. Baylor: 2 by 18.3. Oklahoma State: 2 by 8.3. West Virginia: 1 by 14.2. Iowa State: 2 by 8.3. Texas Tech: 5 by 30.8

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Texas Tech

Best efficiency game

30.8 vs Texas Tech

Result
Sat 12/5@ Texas TechL 13-1654100
Sat 10/31vs Iowa StateL 22-5221000
Sat 10/17@ West VirginiaL 17-3811100
Sat 10/3vs Oklahoma StateL 7-4722000
Sat 9/26@ BaylorL 14-4721000
Sun 9/13vs Coastal CarolinaL 23-3833000

Player Story

Caleb Sampson story

Caleb Sampson built his college career from 2017 through 2022 as a defensive lineman from Covington, LA wearing No. 98, spending time with Kansas and Missouri. The clearest part of Caleb Sampson's career was his defensive production: 70 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, and 6 passes defended across 33 career games in the available record. That gives Caleb Sampson'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

    Missouri

    2017

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kansas

    2018-2022

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

201720182019202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonMissouri0
2018 Regular SeasonKansas00
2019 Regular SeasonKansas713.43.37
2020 Regular SeasonKansas315.46.5-4
2021 Regular SeasonKansas5.517.26.22.5
2022 Regular SeasonKansas817.762.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Baylor

Week 3 · L 7-45 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#2

@ Texas Tech

Week 14 · L 13-16 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

76.9 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 76.9 takeover score.

#3

@ Houston

Week 3 · W 48-30

3

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#4

@ TCU

Week 5 · L 14-51 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Oklahoma

Week 8 · L 23-35 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Kansas

8 primary output · 17.7 efficiency · 6 usage

45.6

#2

2019 Regular Season · Kansas

45.1

7 primary · 13.4 efficiency · 3.3 usage

#3

2020 Regular Season · Kansas

39.2

3 primary · 15.4 efficiency · 6.5 usage

Milestones

8

Impact games

7

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games