Player Dossier

2019-2025

Florida A&M

Brian Norris

LB • 6'2" • 230 lbs • Chiefland, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brian Norris shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 55 disruption score.

Usage / Role

16%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

34

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

21

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

47

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida A&M

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
South Florida • Florida A&M
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Cincinnati

Player Story

Brian Norris built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a linebacker from Chiefland, FL wearing No. 4, spending time with Florida A&M and South Florida. The clearest part of Brian Norris' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.8376

Chiefland · Chiefland, FL

Committed To
South Florida
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

Brian Norris, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida A&M. Brian Norris shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 55 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
47
TFL
1.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Brian Norris quick answers

Latest team and position
Florida A&M · LB
Career Tackles
47
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 24 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Florida A&M
Top game
Cincinnati
Recruit profile
3-star · Chiefland · South Florida
High school pipeline
Chiefland · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 4 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonSouth Florida81611--025.1
2020 Regular SeasonSouth Florida416-01-023.5
2021 Regular SeasonSouth Florida330.50--013.6
2022 Regular SeasonSouth Florida13-0--043.1
2023 PostseasonSouth Florida72-0--015
2023 Regular SeasonSouth Florida77-01-015
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida A&M10-0--085

Related Context

Brian Norris played LB for South Florida and Florida A&M. Across 6 tracked seasons, Brian Norris recorded 47 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with South Florida.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Florida A&M paired 3 primary output with 55 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across South Florida, Florida A&M.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Cincinnati

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

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2020 Regular Season · South Florida

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

19.2

Usage

4

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Cincinnati

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Notre Dame: 0. Cincinnati: 1. East Carolina: 0. Houston: 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. Notre Dame: 1 by 4.2. Cincinnati: 11 by 55.8. East Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Cincinnati

Best efficiency game

55.8 vs Cincinnati

Result
Sat 11/14@ HoustonL 21-5632000
Sat 10/10vs East CarolinaL 24-4411000
Sat 10/3@ Cincinnati10+ tacklesL 7-28114000
Sat 9/19@ Notre DameL 0-5211000

Player Story

Brian Norris story

Brian Norris built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a linebacker from Chiefland, FL wearing No. 4, spending time with Florida A&M and South Florida. The clearest part of Brian Norris' career was his defensive production: 47 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 24 career games in the available record. That gives Brian Norris' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    South Florida

    2019-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Florida A&M

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2019202020212022202320232025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonSouth Florida210.92.3
2020 Regular SeasonSouth Florida119.24-1
2021 Regular SeasonSouth Florida0.55.92.5-0.5
2022 Regular SeasonSouth Florida012.52-0.5
2023 PostseasonSouth Florida16.81.81
2023 Regular SeasonSouth Florida16.81.80
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida A&M3552

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Cincinnati

Week 5 · L 7-28 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

84.4 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 84.4 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 98 Florida Atlantic

Week 2

3

Havoc Plays

77.5 takeover

Game with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.

#3

vs South Carolina State

Week 3 · W 55-16

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.

#4

vs Temple

Week 11 · W 27-23 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

57.8 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.8 takeover score.

#5

vs Florida

Week 2 · L 20-42

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Havoc Plays

35.8 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 35.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Florida A&M

3 primary output · 55 efficiency · usage

85

#2

2022 Regular Season · South Florida

43.1

0 primary · 12.5 efficiency · 2 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · South Florida

25.1

2 primary · 10.9 efficiency · 2.3 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

2

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games