Player Dossier

2017-2020

Massachusetts

Mike Ruane

LB • 6'0" • 230 lbs • Middletown, NJ, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Mike Ruane shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 47.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

92%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

85

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

87

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Massachusetts

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Massachusetts
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Marshall

Player Story

Mike Ruane built his college career from 2017 through 2020 as a linebacker from Middletown, NJ wearing No. 33, spending time with Massachusetts. The clearest part of Mike Ruane's career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2017 · Rating 0.8115

Rumson-Fair Haven · Middletown, NJ

Committed To
Massachusetts
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2017

Mike Ruane, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Massachusetts. Mike Ruane shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 47.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
125
TFL
6.5
Sacks
1.5
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Mike Ruane quick answers

Latest team and position
Massachusetts · LB
Career Tackles
125
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 28 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Massachusetts
Top game
Marshall
Recruit profile
3-star · Rumson-Fair Haven · Massachusetts
High school pipeline
Rumson-Fair Haven · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 33 · Senior
2020 Tackles rank
31 tackles · LB 317th (top 29%) · FBS Independents 30th (top 14%) · National 769th (top 15%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2017 Regular SeasonMassachusetts21-0-1019.4
2018 Regular SeasonMassachusetts10271.50--017.8
2019 Regular SeasonMassachusetts12661.50--022.4
2020 Regular SeasonMassachusetts4313.51.5-1076.4

Related Context

Mike Ruane played LB for Massachusetts. Across 4 tracked seasons, Mike Ruane recorded 125 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Massachusetts.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Massachusetts paired 6 primary output with 47.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 47.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2020 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Marshall

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Regular Season · Massachusetts

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

1.5

Efficiency

47.3

Usage

13.2

Consistency

58.5

Best Game by takeover score

Marshall

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Georgia Southern: 1. Marshall: 3. Florida Atlantic: 0. Liberty: 2

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. Georgia Southern: 8 by 43.3. Marshall: 9 by 67.5. Florida Atlantic: 5 by 20.8. Liberty: 9 by 57.5

Split Comparison

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

First Half2 · Games = 2 · +1 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 2 · -1 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Marshall

Best efficiency game

67.5 vs Marshall

Result
Fri 11/27@ LibertySplash gameL 0-45940.500.501
Sat 11/21@ Florida AtlanticL 2-2454000
Sat 11/7@ MarshallSplash gameL 10-5193210
Sat 10/17@ Georgia SouthernL 0-4184100

Player Story

Mike Ruane story

Mike Ruane built his college career from 2017 through 2020 as a linebacker from Middletown, NJ wearing No. 33, spending time with Massachusetts. The clearest part of Mike Ruane's career was his defensive production: 125 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 28 career games in the available record. That gives Mike Ruane'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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    Massachusetts

    2017-2020

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2017201820192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonMassachusetts17.10.5
2018 Regular SeasonMassachusetts1.512.83.20.5
2019 Regular SeasonMassachusetts1.522.84.30
2020 Regular SeasonMassachusetts647.313.24.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Marshall

Week 10 · L 10-51

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

89.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 89.2 takeover score.

#2

@ Florida International

Week 3 · L 24-63

1

Havoc Plays

75.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 75.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Liberty

Week 13 · L 0-45 · 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.

#4

vs Akron

Week 5 · W 37-29

1

Havoc Plays

66.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 66.4 takeover score.

#5

@ Georgia Southern

Week 7 · L 0-41

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Havoc Plays

58.9 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Massachusetts

6 primary output · 47.3 efficiency · 13.2 usage

76.4

#2

2019 Regular Season · Massachusetts

22.4

1.5 primary · 22.8 efficiency · 4.3 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · Massachusetts

19.4

1 primary · 7.1 efficiency · 0.5 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

2

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games