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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2024Iowa
Jay Higgins
LB • 6'2" • 232 lbs • Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Jay Higgins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 52.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
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Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
87
Elite ceiling indicators
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Iowa
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Iowa
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee
Player Story
Jay Higgins built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a linebacker from Indianapolis, IN wearing No. 34, spending time with Iowa. The clearest part of Jay Higgins' career was his defensive production: 340...
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- Committed To
- Iowa
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
Jay Higgins, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Iowa. Jay Higgins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 52.1 disruption score.
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- Latest team and position
- Iowa · LB
- Career Tackles
- 340
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 41 games
- Best season
- 2024 Postseason · Iowa
- Top game
- Tennessee
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Brebeuf Jesuit · Iowa
- High school pipeline
- Brebeuf Jesuit · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 34 · Senior
- 2024 Tackles rank
- 124 tackles · LB 8th (top 1%) · Big Ten 2nd (top 1%) · National 9th (top 1%)
Jay Higgins played LB for Iowa. Across 5 tracked seasons, Jay Higgins recorded 340 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Iowa.
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