Player Dossier

2019-2021

Iowa State

Aric Horne

LB • 6'1" • 223 lbs • Jacksonville, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Aric Horne shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12 disruption score.

Usage / Role

17%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

33

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

28

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

53

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Iowa State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Iowa State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma

Player Story

Aric Horne built his college career from 2019 through 2021 as a linebacker from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 5, spending time with Iowa State. The clearest part of Aric Horne's career was his defensive production: 35...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.865

Matoaca · Chesterfield, VA

Committed To
Pittsburgh
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Aric Horne, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Iowa State. Aric Horne shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
35
TFL
3
Sacks
1
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Aric Horne quick answers

Latest team and position
Iowa State · LB
Career Tackles
35
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 19 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Iowa State
Top game
Oklahoma
Recruit profile
3-star · Matoaca · Pittsburgh
High school pipeline
Matoaca · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Junior
2021 Tackles rank
20 tackles · LB 586th (top 47%) · Big 12 145th (top 33%) · National 1,966th (top 33%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonIowa State00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonIowa State8152.51--037.4
2021 Regular SeasonIowa State9200.501-030.1

Related Context

Aric Horne played LB for Iowa State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Aric Horne recorded 35 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Iowa State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Iowa State paired 3.5 primary output with 12.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2021 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Regular Season · Iowa State

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

12.2

Usage

3

Consistency

12.5

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. TCU: 0. Oklahoma: 2. Texas Tech: 0. Oklahoma State: 0. Kansas: 0. Baylor: 0. Kansas State: 0.5. West Virginia: 1

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. TCU: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma: 1 by 24.2. Texas Tech: 3 by 12.5. Oklahoma State: 1 by 4.2. Kansas: 1 by 4.2. Baylor: 1 by 4.2. Kansas State: 4 by 21.7. West Virginia: 3 by 22.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 7 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Oklahoma

Best efficiency game

24.2 vs Oklahoma

Result
Sat 12/5vs West VirginiaW 42-632100
Sat 11/21vs Kansas StateW 45-0410.5000
Sun 11/8vs BaylorW 38-3110000
Sat 10/31@ KansasW 52-2210000
Sat 10/24@ Oklahoma StateL 21-2411000
Sat 10/10vs Texas TechW 31-1531000
Sat 10/3vs OklahomaSplash gameW 37-3011110
Sat 9/26@ TCUW 37-3411000

Player Story

Aric Horne story

Aric Horne built his college career from 2019 through 2021 as a linebacker from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 5, spending time with Iowa State. The clearest part of Aric Horne's career was his defensive production: 35 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 interception across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Aric Horne's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Iowa State

    2019-2021

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonIowa State0
2020 Regular SeasonIowa State3.512.233.5
2021 Regular SeasonIowa State2.5123.6-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Oklahoma

Week 5 · W 37-30 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

64.5 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 64.5 takeover score.

#2

vs Kansas

Week 5 · W 59-7 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

63.6 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 63.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Texas Tech

Week 11 · L 38-41 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

63.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

#4

vs West Virginia

Week 14 · W 42-6 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

39.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 39.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Kansas State

Week 12 · W 45-0 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

30 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Iowa State

3.5 primary output · 12.2 efficiency · 3 usage

37.4

#2

2021 Regular Season · Iowa State

30.1

2.5 primary · 12 efficiency · 3.6 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Iowa State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games