Player Dossier

2021-2024

UConn

Julien Simon

LB • 6'1" • 230 lbs • Tacoma, WA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Julien Simon shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

8%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

38

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

21

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: 2023 Regular Season · Tulsa

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
USC • Tulsa • UConn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tulane

Player Story

Julien Simon built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a linebacker from Tacoma, WA wearing No. 24, spending time with Tulsa, UConn, and USC. The clearest part of Julien Simon's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9445

Lincoln · Tacoma, WA

Committed To
USC
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Julien Simon, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Tulsa. Julien Simon shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
62
TFL
11
Sacks
3.5
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Julien Simon quick answers

Latest team and position
UConn · LB
Career Tackles
62
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Tulsa
Top game
Tulane
Recruit profile
4-star · Lincoln · USC
High school pipeline
Lincoln · 9 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Junior
2024 Tackles rank
4 tackles · LB 928th (top 76%) · FBS Independents 89th (top 61%) · National 3,695th (top 61%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonUSC00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonUSC00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonTulsa1258102.512067.2
2024 Regular SeasonUConn44111-023.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025UConn to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted22.6Dec 20, 2024
2024Tulsa to UConnG5/FCS to G5/FCS75.6Dec 26, 2023
2023USC to TulsaP4 to G5/FCS22.6Dec 5, 2022

Julien Simon played LB for USC, Tulsa, and UConn. Across 4 tracked seasons, Julien Simon recorded 62 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Tulsa.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Tulsa paired 15.5 primary output with 33.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across USC, Tulsa, UConn.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Merrimack

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

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2024 Regular Season · UConn

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

11.7

Usage

2.8

Consistency

38.9

Best Game by takeover score

Merrimack

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Merrimack: 2. Buffalo: 1. Wake Forest: 0. Syracuse: 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. Merrimack: 2 by 28.3. Buffalo: 0 by 10. Wake Forest: 1 by 4.2. Syracuse: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.5 · Games = 2 · +1.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Merrimack

Best efficiency game

28.3 vs Merrimack

Result
Sat 11/23@ SyracuseL 24-3110000
Sat 10/19vs Wake ForestL 20-2310000
Sat 9/28vs BuffaloW 47-300000
Sat 9/7vs MerrimackSplash gameW 63-1721110

Player Story

Julien Simon story

Julien Simon built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a linebacker from Tacoma, WA wearing No. 24, spending time with Tulsa, UConn, and USC. The clearest part of Julien Simon's career was his defensive production: 62 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Tulsa. 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 Julien Simon's production has multiple signals. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Tulsa, UConn, and USC.

The arc is straightforward: Julien Simon 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

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

  1. 1

    USC

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Tulsa

    2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    UConn

    2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonUSC0
2022 Regular SeasonUSC00
2023 Regular SeasonTulsa15.533.19.515.5
2024 Regular SeasonUConn311.72.8-12.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Tulane

Week 11 · L 22-24 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

83.6 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.

#2

@ Northern Illinois

Week 4 · W 22-14

2.5

Havoc Plays

79.2 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 79.2 takeover score.

#3

vs North Texas

Week 12 · L 28-35 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

68.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 68.1 takeover score.

#4

@ East Carolina

Week 13 · W 29-27 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

#5

vs Rice

Week 8 · L 10-42 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

67.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Tulsa

15.5 primary output · 33.1 efficiency · 9.5 usage

67.2

#2

2024 Regular Season · UConn

23.2

3 primary · 11.7 efficiency · 2.8 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · USC

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

7

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games