Player Dossier

2021-2025

Mississippi State

Branden Jennings

LB • 6'3" • 240 lbs • Jacksonville, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Branden Jennings shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

10

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Maryland • UCF • Mississippi State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Kentucky

Player Story

Branden Jennings built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 44, spending time with Maryland, Mississippi State, and UCF. The clearest part of Branden Jennings'...

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Branden Jennings, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State. Branden Jennings shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
126
TFL
6
Sacks
1.5
QB hurries
9
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Branden Jennings quick answers

Latest team and position
Mississippi State · LB
Career Tackles
126
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 35 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
Top game
Eastern Kentucky
High school pipeline
Evangel Christian Academy · 49 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
44 tackles · LB 325th (top 26%) · SEC 100th (top 14%) · National 761st (top 13%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonMaryland723101-019.9
2022 Regular SeasonUCF33-0--037.1
2024 Regular SeasonMississippi State125651.542071.8
2025 PostseasonMississippi State132-0--026.9
2025 Regular SeasonMississippi State1342-042026.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023UCF to UnlistedP4 to Unlisted22.6Apr 28, 2023
2022Kansas State to UCFP4 to P422.6Apr 11, 2022

Branden Jennings played LB for Maryland, UCF, and Mississippi State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Branden Jennings recorded 126 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Mississippi State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Mississippi State paired 12.5 primary output with 29.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Maryland, UCF, Mississippi State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Louisville

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2022 Regular Season · UCF

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Louisville

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. South Carolina State: 0. Louisville: 0. Florida Atlantic: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Wins0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Louisville

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Louisville

Result
Sat 9/17@ Florida AtlanticW 40-14
Fri 9/9vs LouisvilleL 14-2020000
Thu 9/1vs South Carolina StateW 56-1010000

Player Story

Branden Jennings story

Branden Jennings built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 44, spending time with Maryland, Mississippi State, and UCF. The clearest part of Branden Jennings' career was his defensive production: 126 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 35 career games in the available record. That gives Branden Jennings' 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

    Maryland

    2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UCF

    2022

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Mississippi State

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonMaryland216.64.5
2022 Regular SeasonUCF04.20.9-2
2024 Regular SeasonMississippi State12.529.911.912.5
2025 PostseasonMississippi State618.73.3-6.5
2025 Regular SeasonMississippi State618.73.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Eastern Kentucky

Week 1 · W 56-7

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

78.1 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 78.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Howard

Week 2 · W 62-0

1

Havoc Plays

75.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 75.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Arizona State

Week 2 · L 23-30

2

Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#4

vs Texas A&M

Week 8 · L 24-34 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

69.4 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 69.4 takeover score.

#5

@ Georgia

Week 7 · L 31-41 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

68.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 68.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State

12.5 primary output · 29.9 efficiency · 11.9 usage

71.8

#2

2022 Regular Season · UCF

37.1

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2025 Postseason · Mississippi State

26.9

6 primary · 18.7 efficiency · 3.3 usage

Milestones

8

Impact games

4

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games