Player Dossier

2019-2021

Kansas

Nick Channel

LB • 6'0" • 214 lbs • Wichita, KS, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Nick Channel shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

11%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

19

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

30

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kansas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Kansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Texas Tech

Player Story

Nick Channel built his college career from 2019 through 2021 as a linebacker from Wichita, KS wearing No. 41, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Nick Channel's career was his defensive production: 46...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.7898

Kapaun Mt. Carmel · Wichita, KS

Committed To
Kansas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

Nick Channel, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kansas. Nick Channel shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
46
TFL
3
Sacks
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Nick Channel quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas · LB
Career Tackles
46
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 13 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Kansas
Top game
Texas Tech
Recruit profile
2-star · Kapaun Mt. Carmel · Kansas
High school pipeline
Kapaun Mt. Carmel · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 41 · Junior
2021 Tackles rank
16 tackles · LB 652nd (top 52%) · Big 12 171st (top 38%) · National 2,282nd (top 39%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonKansas00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonKansas6302.52-1059.5
2021 Regular SeasonKansas7160.50--011.1

Related Context

Nick Channel played LB for Kansas. Across 3 tracked seasons, Nick Channel recorded 46 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Kansas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Kansas paired 5.5 primary output with 30 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2021 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Baylor

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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2021 Regular Season · Kansas

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

10.2

Usage

2.4

Consistency

4.8

Best Game by takeover score

Baylor

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Baylor: 0.5. Duke: 0. Iowa State: 0. Oklahoma: 0. Oklahoma State: 0. Texas: 0. TCU: 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. Baylor: 4 by 21.7. Duke: 2 by 8.3. Iowa State: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma State: 5 by 20.8. Texas: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 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 = 6 · +0.1 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

Baylor

Best efficiency game

21.7 vs Baylor

Result
Sat 11/20@ TCUL 28-3110000
Sun 11/14@ TexasW 57-5611000
Sat 10/30@ Oklahoma StateL 3-5554000
Sat 10/23vs OklahomaL 23-3510000
Sat 10/2@ Iowa StateL 7-5921000
Sat 9/25@ DukeL 33-5220000
Sat 9/18vs BaylorL 7-45430.5000

Player Story

Nick Channel story

Nick Channel built his college career from 2019 through 2021 as a linebacker from Wichita, KS wearing No. 41, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Nick Channel's career was his defensive production: 46 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Nick Channel's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

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    Kansas

    2019-2021

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonKansas0
2020 Regular SeasonKansas5.53011.65.5
2021 Regular SeasonKansas0.510.22.4-5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Texas Tech

Week 14 · L 13-16 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

83.6 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.

#2

vs Oklahoma State

Week 5 · L 7-47 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

80.5 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 80.5 takeover score.

#3

vs Baylor

Week 3 · L 7-45 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

46.1 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 46.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Iowa State

Week 9 · L 22-52 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

30.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 30.3 takeover score.

#5

@ Oklahoma State

Week 9 · L 3-55 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

16.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 16.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Kansas

5.5 primary output · 30 efficiency · 11.6 usage

59.5

#2

2021 Regular Season · Kansas

11.1

0.5 primary · 10.2 efficiency · 2.4 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Kansas

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games