Player Dossier

2019-2022

California

Braxten Croteau

LB • 6'5" • 245 lbs • Peoria, AZ, USA

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Braxten Croteau shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

22

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

33

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · California

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
California
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon

Player Story

Braxten Croteau built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a linebacker from Peoria, AZ wearing No. 52, spending time with California. The clearest part of Braxten Croteau's career was his defensive...

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Braxten Croteau, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · California. Braxten Croteau shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
49
TFL
3
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Braxten Croteau quick answers

Latest team and position
California · LB
Career Tackles
49
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 22 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · California
Top game
Oregon
Latest roster
No. 52 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
10 tackles · LB 704th (top 57%) · Pac-12 242nd (top 45%) · National 2,673rd (top 46%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonCalifornia47-0-1019.4
2020 Regular SeasonCalifornia28101-059.8
2021 Regular SeasonCalifornia10240.501-028.8
2022 Regular SeasonCalifornia6101.50--029.1

Related Context

Braxten Croteau played LB for California. Across 4 tracked seasons, Braxten Croteau recorded 49 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with California.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

California paired 2 primary output with 26.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.5 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: UNLV

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

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2022 Regular Season · California

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

9.5

Usage

2.5

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

UNLV

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UC Davis: 0. UNLV: 1. Notre Dame: 0. Washington State: 0.5. Colorado: 0. Washington: 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. UC Davis: 1 by 4.2. UNLV: 3 by 22.5. Notre Dame: 1 by 4.2. Washington State: 2 by 13.3. Colorado: 2 by 8.3. Washington: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.1 · Games = 4 · -0.4 vs Wins

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UNLV

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs UNLV

Result
Sun 10/23vs WashingtonL 21-2811000
Sat 10/15@ ColoradoL 13-2021000
Sat 10/1@ Washington StateL 9-28210.5000
Sat 9/17@ Notre DameL 17-2410000
Sat 9/10vs UNLVW 20-1432100
Sat 9/3vs UC DavisW 34-1311000

Player Story

Braxten Croteau story

Braxten Croteau built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a linebacker from Peoria, AZ wearing No. 52, spending time with California. The clearest part of Braxten Croteau's career was his defensive production: 49 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 1 pass defended across 22 career games in the available record. That gives Braxten Croteau's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    California

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2019202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonCalifornia19.81.2
2020 Regular SeasonCalifornia226.77.51
2021 Regular SeasonCalifornia1.511.52.7-0.5
2022 Regular SeasonCalifornia1.59.52.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Oregon

Week 14 · W 21-17 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

76.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.9 takeover score.

#2

vs UNLV

Week 2 · W 20-14

1

Havoc Plays

59.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.2 takeover score.

#3

vs Washington State

Week 5 · L 6-21 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

56.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.1 takeover score.

#4

vs North Texas

Week 3 · W 23-17

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Havoc Plays

43.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.

#5

@ UCLA

Week 13 · L 14-42 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

38.1 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 38.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · California

2 primary output · 26.7 efficiency · 7.5 usage

59.8

#2

2022 Regular Season · California

29.1

1.5 primary · 9.5 efficiency · 2.5 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · California

28.8

1.5 primary · 11.5 efficiency · 2.7 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games