Player Dossier

2016-2019

Air Force

Eric Ward

DB • 5'11" • 187 lbs • Kennedale, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Eric Ward shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

11%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

26

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

28

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

37

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Air Force

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Air Force
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Hawai'i
2★

Recruit Profile

Class 2016 · Rating 0.78

Sam Houston · Arlington, TX

Committed To
Air Force
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2016

Eric Ward, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Air Force. Eric Ward shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
11
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Eric Ward quick answers

Latest team and position
Air Force · DB
Career Tackles
11
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 6 games
Best season
2018 Regular Season · Air Force
Top game
Hawai'i
Recruit profile
2-star · Sam Houston · Air Force
High school pipeline
Sam Houston · 18 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 21 · Senior
2019 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DB 540th (top 60%) · Mountain West 239th (top 44%) · National 2,662nd (top 45%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonAir Force00-0--0-
2017 Regular SeasonAir Force00-0--0-
2018 Regular SeasonAir Force11-0--036.7
2019 Regular SeasonAir Force510-0-2034.7

Related Context

Eric Ward played DB for Air Force. Across 4 tracked seasons, Eric Ward recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Air Force.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season

Air Force paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2019 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Hawai'i

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Explorer

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2019 Regular Season · Air Force

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

12.4

Usage

1.6

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Hawai'i

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Colgate: 1. Colorado: 0. Navy: 0. Hawai'i: 1. New Mexico: 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. Colgate: 1 by 14.2. Colorado: 1 by 4.2. Navy: 1 by 4.2. Hawai'i: 6 by 35. New Mexico: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 4 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Hawai'i

Best efficiency game

35 vs Hawai'i

Result
Sat 11/23@ New MexicoW 44-2211000
Sun 10/20@ Hawai'iW 56-2666001
Sat 10/5@ NavyL 25-3411000
Sat 9/14@ ColoradoW 30-2311000
Sat 8/31vs ColgateW 48-710001

Career Arc

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

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    Air Force

    2016-2019

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2016201720182019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonAir Force0
2017 Regular SeasonAir Force00
2018 Regular SeasonAir Force04.20.70
2019 Regular SeasonAir Force212.41.62

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Hawai'i

Week 8 · W 56-26 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

59.4 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Colgate

Week 1 · W 48-7

1

Havoc Plays

40 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.

#3

@ Colorado

Week 3 · W 30-23

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#4

vs Boise State

Week 9 · L 38-48 · 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

@ New Mexico

Week 13 · W 44-22 · Conference game

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

2018 Regular Season · Air Force

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

36.7

#2

2019 Regular Season · Air Force

34.7

2 primary · 12.4 efficiency · 1.6 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Air Force

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games