Player Dossier

2017-2022

Auburn

Barton Lester

LB • 6'3" • 216 lbs • Montgomery, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Barton Lester shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

21

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

14

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: 2021 Regular Season · Auburn

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Auburn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Player Story

Barton Lester built his college career from 2017 through 2022 as a linebacker from Montgomery, AL wearing No. 51, spending time with Auburn. The clearest part of Barton Lester's career was his defensive production: 8...

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Barton Lester, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Auburn. Barton Lester shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
8
TFL
1
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Barton Lester quick answers

Latest team and position
Auburn · LB
Career Tackles
8
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 8 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Auburn
Top game
Mississippi State
Latest roster
No. 51 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
6 tackles · LB 826th (top 67%) · SEC 331st (top 55%) · National 3,137th (top 54%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2017 Regular SeasonAuburn00-0--0-
2018 Regular SeasonAuburn00-0--0-
2019 Regular SeasonAuburn00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonAuburn10-0--133.3
2021 Regular SeasonAuburn32-0--135.7
2022 Regular SeasonAuburn4610--032.7

Related Context

Barton Lester played LB for Auburn. Across 6 tracked seasons, Barton Lester recorded 8 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Auburn.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Auburn paired 0 primary output with 2.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2022 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Loss with 1 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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2022 Regular Season · Auburn

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

8.8

Usage

1.7

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Mississippi State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Georgia: 0. Ole Miss: 0. Mississippi State: 1. Alabama: 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. Georgia: 1 by 4.2. Ole Miss: 2 by 8.3. Mississippi State: 2 by 18.3. Alabama: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

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

Mississippi State

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Mississippi State

Result
Sat 11/26@ AlabamaL 27-4911000
Sat 11/5@ Mississippi StateL 33-3920100
Sat 10/15@ Ole MissL 34-4822000
Sat 10/8@ GeorgiaL 10-4211000

Player Story

Barton Lester story

Barton Lester built his college career from 2017 through 2022 as a linebacker from Montgomery, AL wearing No. 51, spending time with Auburn. The clearest part of Barton Lester's career was his defensive production: 8 tackles and 1 tackle for loss across 8 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with Auburn. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Barton Lester's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 19 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 8 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Auburn.

The arc is straightforward: Barton Lester moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Auburn

    2017-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201720182019202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonAuburn0
2018 Regular SeasonAuburn00
2019 Regular SeasonAuburn00
2020 Regular SeasonAuburn0000
2021 Regular SeasonAuburn02.80.50
2022 Regular SeasonAuburn18.81.71

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Mississippi State

Week 10 · L 33-39 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

50.5 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.5 takeover score.

#2

@ Ole Miss

Week 7 · L 34-48 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Alabama State

Week 2 · W 62-0

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Alabama

Week 13 · L 27-49 · 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.

#5

vs Akron

Week 1 · W 60-10

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Auburn

0 primary output · 2.8 efficiency · 0.5 usage

35.7

#2

2020 Regular Season · Auburn

33.3

0 primary · 0 efficiency · 0 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Auburn

32.7

1 primary · 8.8 efficiency · 1.7 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games