Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2017-2021Kansas State
Justin Gardner
DB • 6'2" • 180 lbs • Charlotte, NC, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Justin Gardner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
25
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
23
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
39
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kansas State
17182021
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Oregon State • Kansas State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: TCU
Player Story
Justin Gardner built his college career from 2017 through 2021 as a defensive back from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 6, spending time with Kansas State and Oregon State. The clearest part of Justin Gardner's career was...
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- Committed To
- Oregon State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Justin Gardner, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kansas State. Justin Gardner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 25
- Passes defended
- 11
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Justin Gardner quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kansas State · DB
- Career Tackles
- 25
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · Kansas State
- Top game
- TCU
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Shiloh · Oregon State
- High school pipeline
- Shiloh · 8 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 6 · Senior
- 2021 Tackles rank
- 8 tackles · DB 596th (top 65%) · Big 12 215th (top 48%) · National 2,949th (top 50%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Regular Season | Oregon State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2018 Regular Season | Oregon State | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.4 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Kansas State | 7 | 15 | - | 0 | - | 7 | 2 | 46.7 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Kansas State | 7 | 8 | - | 0 | - | 4 | 0 | 20.9 |
Related Context
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Justin Gardner played DB for Oregon State and Kansas State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Justin Gardner recorded 4 receiving yards, 25 tackles, and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Kansas State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
Kansas State paired 8 primary output with 20.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10.5 efficiency.
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Career value cooled off
2021 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Oregon State, Kansas State.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: TCU
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2021 Regular Season · Kansas State
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
10.5
Usage
1
Consistency
14.3
Best Game by takeover score
TCU
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Stanford: 1. Southern Illinois: 0. Nevada: 1. Oklahoma: 0. TCU: 2. Kansas: 0. West Virginia: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Stanford: 1 by 14.2. Southern Illinois: 1 by 4.2. Nevada: 0 by 10. Oklahoma: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 1 by 24.2. Kansas: 1 by 4.2. West Virginia: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.7 · Games = 6 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.7 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
TCU
Best efficiency game
24.2 vs TCU
Player Story
Justin Gardner story
Justin Gardner built his college career from 2017 through 2021 as a defensive back from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 6, spending time with Kansas State and Oregon State. The clearest part of Justin Gardner's career was his defensive production: 25 tackles, 1 interception, and 11 passes defended across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2020 with Kansas State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Justin Gardner's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 4 receiving yards and 19 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kansas State and Oregon State.
The arc is straightforward: Justin Gardner moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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- 1
Oregon State
2017-2018
Opening stop
- 2
Kansas State
2020-2021
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2017201820202021
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Regular Season | Oregon State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2018 Regular Season | Oregon State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Kansas State | 8 | 20.3 | 2.2 | 8 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Kansas State | 4 | 10.5 | 1 | -4 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ TCU
Week 6 · W 21-14 · Conference game
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4
Havoc Plays
53.9 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 53.9 takeover score.
#2
vs TCU
Week 9 · W 31-12 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
43.6 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 43.6 takeover score.
#3
vs Kansas
Week 8 · W 55-14 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
33.9 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 33.9 takeover score.
#4
vs Texas
Week 14 · L 31-69 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
23.9 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 23.9 takeover score.
#5
vs Stanford
Week 1 · W 24-7
1
Havoc Plays
23.9 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 23.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2020 Regular Season · Kansas State
8 primary output · 20.3 efficiency · 2.2 usage
46.7
#2
2018 Regular Season · Oregon State
36.4
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Kansas State
20.9
4 primary · 10.5 efficiency · 1 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
3
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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