Usage / Role
7%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2016-2017Kent State
Sam Thomas
LB • 6'0" • 234 lbs • Baltimore, MD, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Sam Thomas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
18
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
14
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
27
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Kent State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Kent State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Clemson
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- Committed To
- Kent State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2016
Sam Thomas, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Kent State. Sam Thomas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 10
- TFL
- 0.5
Quick Answers
Sam Thomas quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kent State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 10
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2017 Regular Season · Kent State
- Top game
- Clemson
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Tallahassee Leon · Kent State
- High school pipeline
- Tallahassee Leon · 14 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 35 · Sophomore
- 2017 Tackles rank
- 10 tackles · LB 713th (top 65%) · Mid-American 258th (top 48%) · National 2,746th (top 48%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Kent State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2017 Regular Season | Kent State | 5 | 10 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 22 |
Related Context
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Sam Thomas played LB for Kent State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Sam Thomas recorded 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Kent State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season
Kent State paired 0.5 primary output with 9.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2017 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 9.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2017 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Clemson
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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2017 Regular Season · Kent State
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0.1
Efficiency
9.4
Usage
2.6
Consistency
6.7
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. Clemson: 0.5. Howard: 0. Louisville: 0. Ohio: 0. Bowling Green: 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. Clemson: 3 by 17.5. Howard: 4 by 16.7. Louisville: 1 by 4.2. Ohio: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.1 · Games = 4 · +0.1 vs Wins
Game Log
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5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Clemson
Best efficiency game
17.5 vs Clemson
Career Arc
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- 1
Kent State
2016-2017
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20162017
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Kent State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2017 Regular Season | Kent State | 0.5 | 9.4 | 2.6 | 0.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Clemson
Week 1 · L 3-56
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5
Havoc Plays
44.4 takeover
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 44.4 takeover score.
#2
vs Howard
Week 2 · W 38-31
0
Havoc Plays
13.1 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.1 takeover score.
#3
@ Ohio
Week 8 · L 3-48 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#4
@ Louisville
Week 4 · L 3-42
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#5
vs Bowling Green
Week 10 · L 16-44 · 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.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2017 Regular Season · Kent State
0.5 primary output · 9.4 efficiency · 2.6 usage
22
#2
2016 Regular Season · Kent State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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