Player Dossier

2020-2025

App State

Shawn Collins

DL • 6'5" • 265 lbs • Montclair, NJ, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Shawn Collins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

32

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

31

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

36

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · App State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Rutgers • App State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Old Dominion

Player Story

Shawn Collins built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Montclair, NJ wearing No. 1, spending time with App State and Rutgers. The clearest part of Shawn Collins' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8333

Montclair · Montclair, NJ

Committed To
Rutgers
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Shawn Collins, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · App State. Shawn Collins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
47
TFL
7.5
Sacks
5
QB hurries
13
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Shawn Collins quick answers

Latest team and position
App State · DL
Career Tackles
47
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 23 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · App State
Top game
Old Dominion
Recruit profile
3-star · Montclair · Rutgers
High school pipeline
Montclair · 14 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 1 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
2 tackles · DL 964th (top 90%) · Sun Belt 499th (top 79%) · National 4,772nd (top 77%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonRutgers00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonRutgers00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonRutgers56-011015.2
2023 Regular SeasonApp State92342.58-057.8
2024 Regular SeasonApp State7163241046.6
2025 Regular SeasonApp State220.50.5--019.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023Rutgers to App StateP4 to G5/FCS21.2Dec 1, 2022

Shawn Collins played DL for Rutgers and App State. Across 6 tracked seasons, Shawn Collins recorded 47 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with App State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

App State paired 14.5 primary output with 26.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.2 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Rutgers, App State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Lindenwood

Win 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 · App State

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

9.2

Usage

1.5

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Lindenwood

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Lindenwood: 1. Southern Miss: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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Wins1 · Games = 1 · +1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Lindenwood

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs Lindenwood

Result
Sat 9/13@ Southern MissL 22-3810000
Sat 9/6vs LindenwoodW 20-13100.500.500

Player Story

Shawn Collins story

Shawn Collins built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Montclair, NJ wearing No. 1, spending time with App State and Rutgers. The clearest part of Shawn Collins' career was his defensive production: 47 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, 5 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 23 career games in the available record. That gives Shawn Collins' 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

    Rutgers

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    App State

    2023-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonRutgers0
2021 Regular SeasonRutgers00
2022 Regular SeasonRutgers2932
2023 Regular SeasonApp State14.526.88.112.5
2024 Regular SeasonApp State1023.86.3-4.5
2025 Regular SeasonApp State19.21.5-9

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Old Dominion

Week 10 · W 28-20 · Conference game

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4

Havoc Plays

85.6 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 85.6 takeover score.

#2

vs Gardner-Webb

Week 1 · W 45-24

4

Havoc Plays

84.2 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 84.2 takeover score.

#3

@ UL Monroe

Week 5 · W 41-40 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

82.8 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 82.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Michigan State

Week 11 · L 21-27 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

64.4 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.4 takeover score.

#5

vs Georgia State

Week 9 · W 33-26 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

58.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 58.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · App State

14.5 primary output · 26.8 efficiency · 8.1 usage

57.8

#2

2024 Regular Season · App State

46.6

10 primary · 23.8 efficiency · 6.3 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · App State

19.6

1 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 1.5 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

7

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games