Player Dossier

2020-2023

Nebraska

Blaise Gunnerson

DL • 6'6" • 265 lbs • Carroll, IA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Blaise Gunnerson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

21

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

26

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Nebraska

20212223

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Nebraska
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

Player Story

Blaise Gunnerson built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a defensive lineman from Carroll, IA wearing No. 97, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Blaise Gunnerson's career was his defensive...

Read the story
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8837

Kuemper Catholic School System · Carroll, IA

Committed To
Nebraska
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Blaise Gunnerson, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Nebraska. Blaise Gunnerson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
17
TFL
2
Sacks
1
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Blaise Gunnerson quick answers

Latest team and position
Nebraska · DL
Career Tackles
17
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 10 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Nebraska
Top game
Minnesota
Recruit profile
3-star · Kuemper Catholic School System · Nebraska
High school pipeline
Kuemper Catholic School System · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 97 · Sophomore
2023 Tackles rank
9 tackles · DL 605th (top 61%) · Big Ten 292nd (top 48%) · National 2,873rd (top 48%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonNebraska00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska230.50--023.7
2022 Regular SeasonNebraska45-0--037.6
2023 Regular SeasonNebraska491.5111058.7

Related Context

Blaise Gunnerson played DL for Nebraska. Across 4 tracked seasons, Blaise Gunnerson recorded 17 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Nebraska.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Nebraska paired 4.5 primary output with 20.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2023 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Iowa

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2021 Regular Season · Nebraska

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

8.8

Usage

3

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa

Not enough games exist for the full explorer. The summary cards stay available so the season still reads clearly.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wisconsin: 0. Iowa: 0.5

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.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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

First Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Iowa

Best efficiency game

9.2 vs Iowa

Result
Fri 11/26vs IowaL 21-28100.5000
Sat 11/20@ WisconsinL 28-3520000

Player Story

Blaise Gunnerson story

Blaise Gunnerson built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a defensive lineman from Carroll, IA wearing No. 97, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Blaise Gunnerson's career was his defensive production: 17 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 pass defended across 10 career games in the available record. That gives Blaise Gunnerson'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

    Nebraska

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonNebraska0
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska0.58.830.5
2022 Regular SeasonNebraska05.20.9-0.5
2023 Regular SeasonNebraska4.520.75.14.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Minnesota

Week 1 · L 10-13 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Louisiana Tech

Week 4 · W 28-14

1

Havoc Plays

34.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.2 takeover score.

#3

vs Iowa

Week 13 · L 21-28 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

30.6 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Colorado

Week 2 · L 14-36

1

Havoc Plays

26.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 26.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Purdue

Week 9 · W 31-14 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

19.7 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 19.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Nebraska

4.5 primary output · 20.7 efficiency · 5.1 usage

58.7

#2

2022 Regular Season · Nebraska

37.6

0 primary · 5.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Nebraska

23.7

0.5 primary · 8.8 efficiency · 3 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games