Player Dossier

2020-2024

LSU

Bradyn Swinson

DE • 6'4" • 250 lbs • Douglasville, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Bradyn Swinson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

23

Developing production for an edge defender

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Reliability

16

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

36

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · LSU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Oregon • LSU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Ole Miss

Player Story

Bradyn Swinson built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive end from Douglasville, GA wearing No. 13, spending time with LSU and Oregon. The clearest part of Bradyn Swinson's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8815

Chapel Hill · Douglasville, GA

Committed To
Oregon
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

NFL Draft

Draft Year
2025
Selection
Round 5 · Pick 8
Overall
No. 146
NFL Team
New England Patriots

Bradyn Swinson, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · LSU. Bradyn Swinson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
125
TFL
24
Sacks
13.5
QB hurries
16
Passes defended
10

Quick Answers

Bradyn Swinson quick answers

Latest team and position
LSU · DE
Career Tackles
125
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 41 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · LSU
Top game
Ole Miss
Recruit profile
3-star · Chapel Hill · Oregon
High school pipeline
Chapel Hill · 6 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
NFL Draft
2025 · Round 5 · Pick 8 · New England Patriots
Latest roster
No. 13 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
57 tackles · DE 7th (top 3%) · SEC 56th (top 8%) · National 441st (top 8%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonOregon33-0-106.7
2021 PostseasonOregon91-0--040.3
2021 Regular SeasonOregon9234312040.3
2022 Regular SeasonOregon581.50--014.6
2023 Regular SeasonLSU11335.5274056.6
2024 PostseasonLSU133-0--071.8
2024 Regular SeasonLSU1354138.583071.8

Related Context

Bradyn Swinson played DE for Oregon and LSU. Across 5 tracked seasons, Bradyn Swinson recorded 125 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with LSU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

LSU paired 32.5 primary output with 40.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2024 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Oregon, LSU.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arizona

Win 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 · Oregon

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

9.7

Usage

3.7

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Arizona

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Eastern Washington: 0. BYU: 0.5. Stanford: 0. Arizona: 1. Colorado: 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. Eastern Washington: 1 by 4.2. BYU: 2 by 13.3. Stanford: 2 by 8.3. Arizona: 1 by 14.2. Colorado: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.2 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arizona

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs Arizona

Result
Sat 11/5@ ColoradoW 49-1022000
Sun 10/9@ ArizonaW 49-2211100
Sun 10/2vs StanfordW 45-2721000
Sat 9/17vs BYUW 41-20210.5000
Sun 9/11vs Eastern WashingtonW 70-1410000

Player Story

Bradyn Swinson story

Bradyn Swinson built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive end from Douglasville, GA wearing No. 13, spending time with LSU and Oregon. The clearest part of Bradyn Swinson's career was his defensive production: 125 tackles, 24 tackles for loss, 13.5 sacks, and 10 passes defended across 41 career games in the available record. That gives Bradyn Swinson's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Oregon

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    LSU

    2023-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120212022202320242024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonOregon17.50.6
2021 PostseasonOregon1022.26.39
2021 Regular SeasonOregon1022.26.30
2022 Regular SeasonOregon1.59.73.7-8.5
2023 Regular SeasonLSU18.529.38.917
2024 PostseasonLSU32.540.612.914
2024 Regular SeasonLSU32.540.612.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Ole Miss

Week 7 · W 29-26 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

7.5

Havoc Plays

94.4 takeover

7.5 disruption/tackle impact with 94.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Florida

Week 11 · W 52-35 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

84.2 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 84.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Ohio State

Week 2 · W 35-28

3

Havoc Plays

83.6 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.

#4

@ South Carolina

Week 3 · W 36-33 · Conference game

6

Havoc Plays

83.6 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.

#5

vs UCLA

Week 4 · W 34-17

5

Havoc Plays

79.2 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 79.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · LSU

32.5 primary output · 40.6 efficiency · 12.9 usage

71.8

#2

2024 Regular Season · LSU

71.8

32.5 primary · 40.6 efficiency · 12.9 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · LSU

56.6

18.5 primary · 29.3 efficiency · 8.9 usage

Milestones

12

Impact games

17

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games