Player Dossier

2021-2025

Georgia State

Zavier Carter

LB • 6'4" • 225 lbs • Atlanta, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Zavier Carter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

26

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

16

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

38

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · LSU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
LSU • UNLV • Georgia State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State

Player Story

Zavier Carter built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Atlanta, GA wearing No. 49, spending time with Georgia State, LSU, and UNLV. The clearest part of Zavier Carter's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9165

Hapeville Charter · Atlanta, GA

Committed To
LSU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Zavier Carter, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · LSU. Zavier Carter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
26
TFL
3.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Zavier Carter quick answers

Latest team and position
Georgia State · LB
Career Tackles
26
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
Best season
2021 Postseason · LSU
Top game
Kansas State
Recruit profile
4-star · Hapeville Charter · LSU
High school pipeline
Hapeville Charter · 18 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 49 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
10 tackles · LB 769th (top 61%) · Sun Belt 328th (top 52%) · National 2,990th (top 49%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 PostseasonLSU14101-074.4
2022 Regular SeasonLSU44-0--037
2023 Regular SeasonUNLV68111-037.7
2025 Regular SeasonGeorgia State5101.50--026.5

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025UCF to Georgia StateP4 to G5/FCS22.6Jun 9, 2025
2023LSU to UNLVP4 to G5/FCS22.6Feb 1, 2023

Zavier Carter played LB for LSU, UNLV, and Georgia State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Zavier Carter recorded 26 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Georgia State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason

LSU paired 2 primary output with 36.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.3 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 LSU, UNLV, Georgia State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Georgia State

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

11.3

Usage

3.8

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Vanderbilt

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ole Miss: 0. Vanderbilt: 1. James Madison: 0. App State: 0.5. Marshall: 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. Ole Miss: 1 by 4.2. Vanderbilt: 2 by 18.3. James Madison: 3 by 12.5. App State: 2 by 13.3. Marshall: 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 Half0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.1 vs Second Half
Second Half0.3 · Games = 2 · -0.1 vs First Half

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Vanderbilt

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Vanderbilt

Result
Sat 11/15vs MarshallL 18-3020000
Sat 10/11vs App StateL 20-41210.5000
Sat 10/4vs James MadisonL 7-1430000
Sat 9/20@ VanderbiltL 21-7021100
Sat 8/30@ Ole MissL 7-6310000

Player Story

Zavier Carter story

Zavier Carter built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Atlanta, GA wearing No. 49, spending time with Georgia State, LSU, and UNLV. The clearest part of Zavier Carter's career was his defensive production: 26 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 16 career games in the available record. That gives Zavier Carter'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

    LSU

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UNLV

    2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Georgia State

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2021202220232025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 PostseasonLSU236.711.3
2022 Regular SeasonLSU04.20.8-2
2023 Regular SeasonUNLV310.63.53
2025 Regular SeasonGeorgia State1.511.33.8-1.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Kansas State

Week 1 · L 20-42 · Postseason

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

77 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 77 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 11 Vanderbilt

Week 4 · L 21-70 · Ranked opponent

1

Havoc Plays

64.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.2 takeover score.

#3

vs Hawai'i

Week 5 · W 44-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

60.8 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.8 takeover score.

#4

@ New Mexico

Week 10 · W 56-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

46.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 46.4 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 111 App State

Week 7 · L 20-41 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

38.6 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 38.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Postseason · LSU

2 primary output · 36.7 efficiency · 11.3 usage

74.4

#2

2023 Regular Season · UNLV

37.7

3 primary · 10.6 efficiency · 3.5 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · LSU

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games