Player Dossier

2018-2020

Middle Tennessee

Cain McWilliams

LB • 6'1" • 218 lbs • Lewisburg, TN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Cain McWilliams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

28

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

27

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

32

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Middle Tennessee
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Troy
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8689

Speedway · Indianapolis, IN

Committed To
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Cain McWilliams, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee. Cain McWilliams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
20
TFL
0.5

Quick Answers

Cain McWilliams quick answers

Latest team and position
Middle Tennessee · LB
Career Tackles
20
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 12 games
Best season
2018 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
Top game
Troy
Recruit profile
3-star · Speedway
High school pipeline
Speedway · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 39 · Sophomore
2020 Tackles rank
9 tackles · LB 647th (top 58%) · Conference USA 230th (top 43%) · National 2,238th (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee68-0--037.6
2019 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee33-0--037
2020 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee390.50--023.5

Related Context

Cain McWilliams played LB for Middle Tennessee. Across 3 tracked seasons, Cain McWilliams recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Middle Tennessee.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season

Middle Tennessee paired 0 primary output with 5.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2020 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Troy

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2020 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

14.2

Usage

2.2

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Troy

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Army: 0. Troy: 0.5. Marshall: 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. Army: 4 by 16.7. Troy: 3 by 17.5. Marshall: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.3 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Troy

Best efficiency game

17.5 vs Troy

Result
Sat 11/14@ MarshallL 14-4220000
Sat 9/19vs TroyL 14-47320.5000
Sat 9/5@ ArmyL 0-4244000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Middle Tennessee

    2018-2020

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201820192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee05.60.9
2019 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee04.20.80
2020 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee0.514.22.20.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Troy

Week 3 · L 14-47

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5

Havoc Plays

31.4 takeover

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 31.4 takeover score.

#2

@ Army

Week 1 · L 0-42

0

Havoc Plays

12.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Old Dominion

Week 9 · W 51-17 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Marshall

Week 11 · L 14-42 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.

#5

@ Marshall

Week 6 · W 34-24 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2018 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

0 primary output · 5.6 efficiency · 0.9 usage

37.6

#2

2019 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

#3

2020 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

23.5

0.5 primary · 14.2 efficiency · 2.2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games