Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2016-2021Massachusetts
Bryce Watts
DB • 6'0" • 175 lbs • Toms River, NJ, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Bryce Watts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
54
Solid production for a defensive back
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Reliability
39
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
75
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Massachusetts
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 3
- Unique Seasons
- 6
- Program Path
- Virginia Tech • North Carolina • Massachusetts
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh
Player Story
Bryce Watts built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a defensive back from Toms River, NJ wearing No. 2, spending time with Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech. The clearest part of Bryce...
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- Committed To
- Virginia Tech
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Bryce Watts, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Massachusetts. Bryce Watts shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 70
- TFL
- 1
- Passes defended
- 11
Quick Answers
Bryce Watts quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Massachusetts · DB
- Career Tackles
- 70
- Tracked sample
- 6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 25 games
- Best season
- 2021 Regular Season · Massachusetts
- Top game
- Pittsburgh
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Toms River North · Virginia Tech
- High school pipeline
- Toms River North · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 2 · Junior
- 2021 Tackles rank
- 43 tackles · DB 194th (top 21%) · FBS Independents 45th (top 14%) · National 817th (top 14%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2017 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 5 | 5 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 8.8 |
| 2018 Postseason | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.3 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 10 | 22 | - | 0 | - | 6 | 0 | 36.3 |
| 2019 Regular Season | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2020 Regular Season | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | Massachusetts | 10 | 43 | 1 | 0 | - | 4 | 0 | 39.2 |
Related Context
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Bryce Watts played DB for Virginia Tech, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. Across 6 tracked seasons, Bryce Watts recorded 70 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Massachusetts.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season
Massachusetts paired 6 primary output with 23.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 23.9 efficiency.
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Career value is trending up
2021 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
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Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Massachusetts.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh
Loss 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 · Massachusetts
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
23.9
Usage
4.5
Consistency
10
Best Game by takeover score
Pittsburgh
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Pittsburgh: 2. Boston College: 0. Coastal Carolina: 0. Toledo: 2. UConn: 2. Florida State: 0. Liberty: 0. Rhode Island: 0. Army: 0. New Mexico State: 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. Pittsburgh: 6 by 45. Boston College: 3 by 12.5. Coastal Carolina: 3 by 12.5. Toledo: 7 by 49.2. UConn: 5 by 40.8. Florida State: 4 by 16.7. Liberty: 1 by 4.2. Rhode Island: 6 by 25. Army: 5 by 20.8. New Mexico State: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins2 · Games = 1 · +1.6 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 9 · -1.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Pittsburgh
Best efficiency game
49.2 vs Toledo
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/27 | @ New Mexico State | L 27-44 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/20 | @ Army | L 17-33 | 5 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/6 | vs Rhode Island | L 22-35 | 6 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/30 | @ Liberty | L 17-62 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/23 | @ Florida State | L 3-59 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/9 | vs UConnSplash game | W 27-13 | 5 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/2 | vs ToledoSplash game | L 7-45 | 7 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | — | — |
| Sat 9/25 | @ Coastal Carolina | L 3-53 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/11 | vs Boston College | L 28-45 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/4 | @ PittsburghSplash game | L 7-51 | 6 | 6 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
Bryce Watts story
Bryce Watts built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a defensive back from Toms River, NJ wearing No. 2, spending time with Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech. The clearest part of Bryce Watts' career was his defensive production: 70 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 2 interceptions, and 11 passes defended across 25 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2021 with Massachusetts. 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 Bryce Watts' production has multiple signals. His career also includes 9 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 25 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech.
The arc is straightforward: Bryce Watts 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
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Virginia Tech
2016-2018
Opening stop
- 2
North Carolina
2019-2020
Transition stop
- 3
Massachusetts
2021
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2016201720182018201920202021
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2017 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 1 | 6.2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 Postseason | Virginia Tech | 7 | 16.2 | 2.3 | 6 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 7 | 16.2 | 2.3 | 0 |
| 2019 Regular Season | North Carolina | 0 | — | — | -7 |
| 2020 Regular Season | North Carolina | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Massachusetts | 6 | 23.9 | 4.5 | 6 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Pittsburgh
Week 1 · L 7-51
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
81.7 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.
#2
vs UConn
Week 6 · W 27-13 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
71.4 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.4 takeover score.
#3
vs Toledo
Week 5 · L 7-45
2
Havoc Plays
59.7 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 59.7 takeover score.
#4
vs Marshall
Week 14 · W 41-20
2
Havoc Plays
49.7 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.7 takeover score.
#5
@ Old Dominion
Week 4 · L 35-49
2
Havoc Plays
49.5 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.5 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Regular Season · Massachusetts
6 primary output · 23.9 efficiency · 4.5 usage
39.2
#2
2018 Postseason · Virginia Tech
36.3
7 primary · 16.2 efficiency · 2.3 usage
#3
2018 Regular Season · Virginia Tech
36.3
7 primary · 16.2 efficiency · 2.3 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
6
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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