Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason
Iowa State paired 33.5 primary output with 37.9 efficiency.
Player Stats
Will McDonald IV College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 123
- TFL
- 40.5
- Sacks
- 33.5
- QB hurries
- 19
- Passes defended
- 7
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Iowa State | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 15 |
| 2019 Postseason | Iowa State | 10 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 34.9 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Iowa State | 10 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | - | 0 | 34.9 |
| 2020 Postseason | Iowa State | 11 | 4 | 1.5 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 72 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Iowa State | 11 | 29 | 11.5 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 72 |
| 2021 Postseason | Iowa State | 12 | 4 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 73.3 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Iowa State | 12 | 32 | 13 | 11.5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 73.3 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Iowa State | 12 | 36 | 7.5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 62.7 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2022 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 32.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2022 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State
Loss with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2022 Regular Season · Iowa State
Games
12
Havoc Plays / G
2.0
Efficiency
32.1
Usage
11.3
Consistency
54.6
Best Game by takeover score
Kansas State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Southeast Missouri State: 1. Iowa: 1. Ohio: 3. Baylor: 1. Kansas: 3. Kansas State: 4. Texas: 0. Oklahoma: 1. West Virginia: 3.5. Oklahoma State: 1. Texas Tech: 2. TCU: 3
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. Southeast Missouri State: 1 by 14.2. Iowa: 2 by 18.3. Ohio: 1 by 34.2. Baylor: 5 by 30.8. Kansas: 2 by 38.3. Kansas State: 4 by 56.7. Texas: 3 by 12.5. Oklahoma: 5 by 30.8. West Virginia: 4 by 51.7. Oklahoma State: 3 by 22.5. Texas Tech: 3 by 32.5. TCU: 3 by 42.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins2.1 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses1.9 · Games = 8 · -0.3 vs Wins
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