Usage / Role
4%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2019-2020Rice
Matthew Sams
DB • 5'9" • 184 lbs • Austin, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Matthew Sams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
10
Developing production for a defensive back
lowelite
Reliability
10
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Rice
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Rice
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Marshall
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- Committed To
- Rice
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2018
Matthew Sams, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Rice. Matthew Sams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 3
Quick Answers
Matthew Sams quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Rice · DB
- Career Tackles
- 3
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · Rice
- Top game
- Marshall
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Westlake · Rice
- High school pipeline
- Westlake · 34 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 31 · Sophomore
- 2020 Tackles rank
- 3 tackles · DB 658th (top 83%) · Conference USA 341st (top 64%) · National 3,376th (top 65%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Rice | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2020 Regular Season | Rice | 3 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.8 |
Related Context
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Matthew Sams played DB for Rice. Across 2 tracked seasons, Matthew Sams recorded 3 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Rice.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
Rice paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2020 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2020 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Marshall
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2020 Regular Season · Rice
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.7
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Marshall
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Southern Miss: 0. North Texas: 0. Marshall: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
3 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Marshall
Best efficiency game
8.3 vs Marshall
Career Arc
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- 1
Rice
2019-2020
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20192020
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Rice | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2020 Regular Season | Rice | 0 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Marshall
Week 14 · W 20-0 · Conference game
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Havoc Plays
6.7 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.
#2
@ North Texas
Week 12 · L 17-27 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
#3
@ Southern Miss
Week 9 · W 30-6 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
0 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 0 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2020 Regular Season · Rice
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage
36.8
#2
2019 Regular Season · Rice
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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