Player Dossier

2019-2022

Baylor

Brayden Utley

DL • 6'1" • 275 lbs • Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brayden Utley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

55%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

83

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Baylor

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Baylor
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: West Virginia

Player Story

Brayden Utley built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a defensive lineman from Huntington Beach, CA wearing No. 54, spending time with Baylor. The clearest part of Brayden Utley's career was his defensive...

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Brayden Utley, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Baylor. Brayden Utley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
56
TFL
8
Sacks
3
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Brayden Utley quick answers

Latest team and position
Baylor · DL
Career Tackles
56
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 23 games
Best season
2021 Postseason · Baylor
Top game
West Virginia
Latest roster
No. 54 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DL 570th (top 58%) · Big 12 198th (top 44%) · National 2,674th (top 46%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonBaylor120.50.5--042.7
2020 Regular SeasonBaylor620201-024.7
2021 PostseasonBaylor10511--054.2
2021 Regular SeasonBaylor10193121054.2
2022 Regular SeasonBaylor6101.50.52-038.6

Related Context

Brayden Utley played DL for Baylor. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brayden Utley recorded 56 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Baylor.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason

Baylor paired 10 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 20 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: Oklahoma State

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2021 Postseason · Baylor

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

20

Usage

4.7

Consistency

57.8

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ole Miss: 2. Texas State: 0.5. Texas Southern: 0. Oklahoma State: 1. West Virginia: 1. BYU: 1. TCU: 0. Kansas State: 2. Texas Tech: 0. Oklahoma State: 2.5

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. Ole Miss: 5 by 40.8. Texas State: 3 by 17.5. Texas Southern: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma State: 2 by 18.3. West Virginia: 6 by 35. BYU: 0 by 10. TCU: 1 by 4.2. Kansas State: 2 by 28.3. Texas Tech: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma State: 1 by 29.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.1 · Games = 8 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 2 · -0.6 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

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

40.8 vs Ole Miss

Result
Sun 1/2@ Ole MissSplash gameW 21-752110
Sat 12/4@ Oklahoma StateSplash gameW 21-16100.50010
Sat 11/27vs Texas TechW 27-2421000
Sat 11/20@ Kansas StateSplash gameW 20-1022110
Sat 11/6@ TCUL 28-3010000
Sat 10/16vs BYUW 38-2400000
Sat 10/9vs West VirginiaW 45-2065100
Sat 10/2@ Oklahoma StateL 14-2420001
Sat 9/11vs Texas SouthernW 66-721000
Sat 9/4@ Texas StateW 29-20310.5000

Player Story

Brayden Utley story

Brayden Utley built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a defensive lineman from Huntington Beach, CA wearing No. 54, spending time with Baylor. The clearest part of Brayden Utley's career was his defensive production: 56 tackles, 8 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 1 interception across 23 career games in the available record. That gives Brayden Utley's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Baylor

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonBaylor118.35.1
2020 Regular SeasonBaylor318.94.62
2021 PostseasonBaylor10204.77
2021 Regular SeasonBaylor10204.70
2022 Regular SeasonBaylor413.64.2-6

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ West Virginia

Week 5 · L 21-27 · Conference game

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#2

vs UAlbany

Week 1 · W 69-10

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Havoc Plays

69.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 69.5 takeover score.

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@ Oklahoma State

Week 14 · W 21-16 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

68.1 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 68.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Ole Miss

Week 1 · W 21-7 · Postseason

2

Havoc Plays

62.5 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 62.5 takeover score.

#5

@ Kansas State

Week 12 · W 20-10 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

61.1 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Postseason · Baylor

10 primary output · 20 efficiency · 4.7 usage

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#2

2021 Regular Season · Baylor

54.2

10 primary · 20 efficiency · 4.7 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Baylor

42.7

1 primary · 18.3 efficiency · 5.1 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games