Player Dossier

2020-2025

Marshall

Jayland Parker

LB • 6'1" • 225 lbs • Macon, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jayland Parker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 34.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

41%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

93

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

49

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

84

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Marshall

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
NC State • Marshall
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: App State

Player Story

Jayland Parker built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Macon, GA wearing No. 7, spending time with Marshall and NC State. The clearest part of Jayland Parker's career was his defensive...

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Jayland Parker, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Marshall. Jayland Parker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 34.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
55
TFL
3.5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Jayland Parker quick answers

Latest team and position
Marshall · LB
Career Tackles
55
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 15 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Marshall
Top game
App State
High school pipeline
San Joaquin Memorial · 14 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 7 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
42 tackles · LB 355th (top 28%) · Sun Belt 104th (top 17%) · National 851st (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonNC State00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonNC State00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonNC State21-0-1017.9
2023 Regular SeasonNC State22-0--037.4
2024 Regular SeasonNC State410-0--043.2
2025 Regular SeasonMarshall7423.524-060.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Marshall to MarshallG5/FCS to G5/FCS19.6Jul 18, 2025

Jayland Parker played LB for NC State and Marshall. Across 6 tracked seasons, Jayland Parker recorded 55 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Marshall.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Marshall paired 9.5 primary output with 34.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 34.7 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across NC State, Marshall.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: App State

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Marshall

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

1.4

Efficiency

34.7

Usage

10.3

Consistency

21.8

Best Game by takeover score

App State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Georgia: 0. Louisiana: 0.5. Texas State: 0. James Madison: 0. Georgia State: 1. App State: 6.5. Georgia Southern: 1.5

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.

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

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Georgia: 1 by 4.2. Louisiana: 7 by 34.2. Texas State: 1 by 4.2. James Madison: 4 by 16.7. Georgia State: 8 by 43.3. App State: 15 by 100. Georgia Southern: 6 by 40

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · -1.2 vs Losses
Losses1.7 · Games = 5 · +1.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

App State

Best efficiency game

100 vs App State

Result
Sat 11/29vs Georgia SouthernL 19-24610.5000
Sat 11/22@ App State10+ tackles · 2+ sacksL 24-261562.5020
Sat 11/15@ Georgia StateW 30-1883000
Sat 11/8vs James MadisonL 23-3542000
Sat 10/18vs Texas StateW 40-3711000
Sun 9/28@ LouisianaL 51-54740.5000
Sat 8/30@ GeorgiaL 7-4511000

Player Story

Jayland Parker story

Jayland Parker built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Macon, GA wearing No. 7, spending time with Marshall and NC State. The clearest part of Jayland Parker's career was his defensive production: 55 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 15 career games in the available record. That gives Jayland Parker'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

    NC State

    2020-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Marshall

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonNC State0
2021 Regular SeasonNC State00
2022 Regular SeasonNC State17.10.51
2023 Regular SeasonNC State04.21-1
2024 Regular SeasonNC State010.52.30
2025 Regular SeasonMarshall9.534.710.39.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 111 App State

Week 13 · L 24-26 · Conference game

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

6.5

Havoc Plays

100 takeover

6.5 disruption/tackle impact with 100 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 103 Georgia Southern

Week 14 · L 19-24 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

44.6 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 44.6 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 133 Georgia State

Week 12 · W 30-18 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

42.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.6 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 105 Louisiana

Week 5 · L 51-54 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

39.8 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 39.8 takeover score.

#5

vs UConn

Week 4 · W 41-10

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Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Marshall

9.5 primary output · 34.7 efficiency · 10.3 usage

60.6

#2

2024 Regular Season · NC State

43.2

0 primary · 10.5 efficiency · 2.3 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · NC State

37.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games