Usage / Role
6%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2020North Texas
Chris Thornton
LB • 6'1" • 220 lbs • Amarillo, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Chris Thornton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
21
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
19
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
28
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · North Texas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- North Texas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss
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- Committed To
- North Texas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Chris Thornton, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · North Texas. Chris Thornton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 14
Quick Answers
Chris Thornton quick answers
- Latest team and position
- North Texas · LB
- Career Tackles
- 14
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 8 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · North Texas
- Top game
- Southern Miss
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Palo Duro · North Texas
- High school pipeline
- Palo Duro · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 36 · Senior
- 2020 Tackles rank
- 9 tackles · LB 650th (top 58%) · Conference USA 232nd (top 43%) · National 2,248th (top 44%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | North Texas | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2019 Regular Season | North Texas | 4 | 5 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.5 |
| 2020 Regular Season | North Texas | 3 | 9 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 43.2 |
Related Context
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Chris Thornton played LB for North Texas. Across 3 tracked seasons, Chris Thornton recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with North Texas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
North Texas paired 0 primary output with 12.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2020 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 12.5 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: Oklahoma State
Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2020 Regular Season · North Texas
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
12.5
Usage
2.1
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Oklahoma State
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Split Comparison
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All Games0 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Oklahoma State
Best efficiency game
8.3 vs Oklahoma State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 9/17 | @ Oklahoma State | — | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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North Texas
2018-2020
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
201820192020
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | North Texas | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | North Texas | 0 | 5.2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2020 Regular Season | North Texas | 0 | 12.5 | 2.1 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Southern Miss
Week 5 · L 31-41 · Conference game
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
23.3 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 23.3 takeover score.
#2
vs UTEP
Week 10 · W 52-26 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
6.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.
#3
@ Oklahoma State
Week 3
0
Havoc Plays
4.2 takeover
Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.
#4
@ Rice
Week 13 · L 14-20 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
#5
vs Abilene Christian
Week 1 · W 51-31
0
Havoc Plays
3.3 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2020 Regular Season · North Texas
0 primary output · 12.5 efficiency · 2.1 usage
43.2
#2
2019 Regular Season · North Texas
37.5
0 primary · 5.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
#3
2018 Regular Season · North Texas
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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