Player Dossier

2019-2025

Minnesota

Derik LeCaptain

LB • 6'2" • 235 lbs • Gardner, WI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Derik LeCaptain shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

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

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Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Minnesota

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
7
Program Path
Minnesota
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Colorado
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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.78

Southern Door · Brussels, WI

Committed To
Minnesota
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Derik LeCaptain, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Minnesota. Derik LeCaptain shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
19
Passes defended
1
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Derik LeCaptain quick answers

Latest team and position
Minnesota · LB
Career Tackles
19
Tracked sample
7 unique seasons · 8 entries · 19 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Minnesota
Top game
Colorado
Recruit profile
2-star · Southern Door · Minnesota
High school pipeline
Southern Door · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 35 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
6 tackles · LB 870th (top 69%) · Big Ten 428th (top 55%) · National 3,433rd (top 56%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonMinnesota00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonMinnesota11-0--037
2021 PostseasonMinnesota40-0--034.4
2021 Regular SeasonMinnesota41-0--134.4
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota610-0-1032.5
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota21-0--035.3
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota66-0--037

Related Context

Derik LeCaptain played LB for Minnesota. Across 7 tracked seasons, Derik LeCaptain recorded 31 rushing yards, 11 receiving yards, and 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Minnesota.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Minnesota paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 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

Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern State

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

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2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Northwestern State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Northwestern State: 0. California: 0. Rutgers: 0. Nebraska: 0. Northwestern: 0. Wisconsin: 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. Northwestern State: 2 by 8.3. Nebraska: 1 by 4.2. Northwestern: 2 by 8.3. Wisconsin: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Northwestern State

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Northwestern

Result
Sat 11/29vs WisconsinW 17-711000
Sat 11/22@ NorthwesternL 35-3821000
Sat 10/18vs NebraskaW 24-611000
Sat 9/27vs RutgersW 31-28
Sun 9/14@ CaliforniaL 14-27
Sat 9/6vs Northwestern StateW 66-020000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Minnesota

    2019-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonMinnesota0
2020 Regular SeasonMinnesota04.20.80
2021 PostseasonMinnesota01.10.30
2021 Regular SeasonMinnesota01.10.30
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota18.61.91
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota0-1
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota02.10.50
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota04.20.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Colorado

Week 3 · W 49-7

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

48.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Western Illinois

Week 2 · W 62-10

0

Havoc Plays

14.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.2 takeover score.

#3

vs Rutgers

Week 9 · W 31-0 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.8 takeover score.

#4

vs Northwestern State

Week 2 · W 66-0

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Havoc Plays

8.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 51 Northwestern

Week 13 · L 35-38 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Minnesota

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Minnesota

35.3

0 primary · 2.1 efficiency · 0.5 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games