Player Dossier

2021-2025

Kentucky

Landyn Watson

LB • 6'1" • 242 lbs • Austin, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Landyn Watson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

17%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

21

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

18

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

31

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Marshall

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
TCU • Marshall • Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Coastal Carolina

Player Story

Landyn Watson built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Austin, TX wearing No. 9, spending time with Kentucky, Marshall, and TCU. The clearest part of Landyn Watson's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8826

Hutto · Hutto, TX

Committed To
TCU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Landyn Watson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Marshall. Landyn Watson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
91
TFL
5
QB hurries
4

Quick Answers

Landyn Watson quick answers

Latest team and position
Kentucky · LB
Career Tackles
91
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 25 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Marshall
Top game
Coastal Carolina
Recruit profile
3-star · Hutto · TCU
High school pipeline
Hutto · 9 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 9 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
21 tackles · LB 569th (top 45%) · SEC 235th (top 31%) · National 1,980th (top 32%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonTCU00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonTCU00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonMarshall44-0--036.7
2024 Regular SeasonMarshall1166403-050
2025 Regular SeasonKentucky1021101-017

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Kentucky to KansasP4 to P479.8Jan 5, 2026
2025Marshall to KentuckyG5/FCS to P479.8Dec 15, 2024

Landyn Watson played LB for TCU, Marshall, and Kentucky. Across 5 tracked seasons, Landyn Watson recorded 91 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Marshall.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Marshall paired 8 primary output with 32.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 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 TCU, Marshall, Kentucky.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

Win with 1 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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2025 Regular Season · Kentucky

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

10.8

Usage

2.7

Consistency

10

Best Game by takeover score

Toledo

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Toledo: 1. Eastern Michigan: 0.5. South Carolina: 0. Texas: 0. Tennessee: 0. Auburn: 0. Florida: 0. Tennessee Tech: 0.5. Vanderbilt: 0. Louisville: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Toledo: 2 by 18.3. Eastern Michigan: 1 by 9.2. South Carolina: 3 by 12.5. Texas: 2 by 8.3. Tennessee: 1 by 4.2. Auburn: 1 by 4.2. Florida: 3 by 12.5. Tennessee Tech: 2 by 13.3. Vanderbilt: 5 by 20.8. Louisville: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

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

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Toledo

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Vanderbilt

Result
Sat 11/29@ LouisvilleL 0-4110000
Sat 11/22@ VanderbiltL 17-4552000
Sat 11/15vs Tennessee TechW 42-10210.5000
Sun 11/9vs FloridaW 38-731000
Sat 11/1@ AuburnW 10-310000
Sat 10/25vs TennesseeL 34-5610000
Sat 10/18vs TexasL 13-1622000
Sat 9/27@ South CarolinaL 13-3531000
Sat 9/13vs Eastern MichiganW 48-23100.5000
Sat 8/30vs ToledoW 24-1621000

Player Story

Landyn Watson story

Landyn Watson built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Austin, TX wearing No. 9, spending time with Kentucky, Marshall, and TCU. The clearest part of Landyn Watson's career was his defensive production: 91 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, and 1 interception across 25 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Marshall. 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 Landyn Watson's production has multiple signals. With 25 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kentucky, Marshall, and TCU.

The arc is straightforward: Landyn Watson 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

    TCU

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Marshall

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Kentucky

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonTCU0
2022 Regular SeasonTCU00
2023 Regular SeasonMarshall04.20.70
2024 Regular SeasonMarshall832.36.38
2025 Regular SeasonKentucky210.82.7-6

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Coastal Carolina

Week 12 · W 31-19 · Conference game

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

90.3 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 90.3 takeover score.

#2

@ Virginia Tech

Week 2 · L 14-31

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Havoc Plays

60.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60.8 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 48 Toledo

Week 1 · W 24-16

1

Havoc Plays

53.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Ohio State

Week 4 · L 14-49

1

Havoc Plays

52.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.8 takeover score.

#5

@ Southern Miss

Week 11 · W 37-3 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

50.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 50.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Marshall

8 primary output · 32.3 efficiency · 6.3 usage

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#2

2023 Regular Season · Marshall

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Kentucky

17

2 primary · 10.8 efficiency · 2.7 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games