Player Dossier

2019-2022

California

Ryan Puskas

LB • 6'3" • 235 lbs • Peoria, AZ, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ryan Puskas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

11%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

80

High-end production for a linebacker

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Reliability

44

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

73

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · California

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Snapshot

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

Player Story

Ryan Puskas built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a linebacker from Peoria, AZ wearing No. 59, spending time with California. The clearest part of Ryan Puskas' career was his defensive production: 15...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8589

Cocoa · Cocoa, FL

Committed To
Florida State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Ryan Puskas, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · California. Ryan Puskas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
15
TFL
1
Sacks
1
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Ryan Puskas quick answers

Latest team and position
California · LB
Career Tackles
15
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 9 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · California
Top game
Arizona
Recruit profile
3-star · Cocoa · Florida State
High school pipeline
Cocoa · 37 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 59 · Junior
2022 Tackles rank
5 tackles · LB 904th (top 73%) · Pac-12 318th (top 59%) · National 3,425th (top 59%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 PostseasonCalifornia41-0--037.6
2019 Regular SeasonCalifornia44-0--037.6
2020 Regular SeasonCalifornia00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonCalifornia35-0--039.1
2022 Regular SeasonCalifornia25111-064

Related Context

Ryan Puskas played LB for California. Across 4 tracked seasons, Ryan Puskas recorded 15 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with California.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

California paired 3 primary output with 25.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 25.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arizona

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2022 Regular Season · California

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

1.5

Efficiency

25.5

Usage

9.7

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Arizona

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Notre Dame: 0. Arizona: 3

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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Wins3 · Games = 1 · +3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arizona

Best efficiency game

46.7 vs Arizona

Result
Sat 9/24vs ArizonaSplash gameW 49-3143110
Sat 9/17@ Notre DameL 17-2410000

Player Story

Ryan Puskas story

Ryan Puskas built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a linebacker from Peoria, AZ wearing No. 59, spending time with California. The clearest part of Ryan Puskas' career was his defensive production: 15 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 sack across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Ryan Puskas' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    California

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20192019202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 PostseasonCalifornia05.20.9
2019 Regular SeasonCalifornia05.20.90
2020 Regular SeasonCalifornia00
2021 Regular SeasonCalifornia06.91.20
2022 Regular SeasonCalifornia325.59.73

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Arizona

Week 4 · W 49-31 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

82.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.

#2

@ Stanford

Week 12 · W 41-11 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Arizona

Week 10 · L 3-10 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#4

vs USC

Week 12 · L 17-41 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

#5

@ Stanford

Week 13 · W 24-20 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · California

3 primary output · 25.5 efficiency · 9.7 usage

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#2

2021 Regular Season · California

39.1

0 primary · 6.9 efficiency · 1.2 usage

#3

2019 Postseason · California

37.6

0 primary · 5.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games