Usage / Role
43%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2021Air Force
Brandon Gooding
LB • 6'5" • 240 lbs • Ventura, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Brandon Gooding shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
55
Solid production for a linebacker
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Reliability
36
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
62
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Air Force
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Air Force
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Utah State
Player Story
Brandon Gooding built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a linebacker from Ventura, CA wearing No. 45, spending time with Air Force. The clearest part of Brandon Gooding's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Air Force
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Brandon Gooding, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Air Force. Brandon Gooding shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 15
- TFL
- 3
- Sacks
- 2
Quick Answers
Brandon Gooding quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Air Force · LB
- Career Tackles
- 15
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 7 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · Air Force
- Top game
- Utah State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Ventura · Air Force
- High school pipeline
- Ventura · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 45 · Senior
- 2021 Tackles rank
- 4 tackles · LB 940th (top 75%) · Mountain West 294th (top 55%) · National 3,500th (top 59%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Air Force | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2019 Regular Season | Air Force | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2020 Regular Season | Air Force | 5 | 11 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 47.4 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Air Force | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 30.5 |
Related Context
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Brandon Gooding played LB for Air Force. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brandon Gooding recorded 15 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Air Force.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
Air Force paired 4 primary output with 17.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2020 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 17.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2021 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Utah State
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2020 Regular Season · Air Force
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
17.2
Usage
7.1
Consistency
13.3
Best Game by takeover score
Utah State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Navy: 0. San José State: 0. New Mexico: 2. Utah State: 2. Army: 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. Navy: 2 by 8.3. San José State: 1 by 4.2. New Mexico: 2 by 28.3. Utah State: 2 by 28.3. Army: 4 by 16.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.3 · Games = 3 · +1.3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Utah State
Best efficiency game
28.3 vs Utah State
Player Story
Brandon Gooding story
Brandon Gooding built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a linebacker from Ventura, CA wearing No. 45, spending time with Air Force. The clearest part of Brandon Gooding's career was his defensive production: 15 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 7 career games in the available record. That gives Brandon Gooding's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Air Force
2018-2021
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2018201920202021
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Air Force | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | Air Force | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Air Force | 4 | 17.2 | 7.1 | 4 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Air Force | 1 | 13.4 | 4.1 | -3 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Utah State
Week 14 · W 35-7 · Conference game
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
76.1 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.
#2
vs New Mexico
Week 12 · W 28-0 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
76.1 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.
#3
vs Army
Week 10 · L 14-21
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Havoc Plays
60.6 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.
#4
@ Army
Week 16 · L 7-10
0
Havoc Plays
10.6 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.
#5
vs Navy
Week 5 · W 40-7
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Havoc Plays
7.5 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.5 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2020 Regular Season · Air Force
4 primary output · 17.2 efficiency · 7.1 usage
47.4
#2
2021 Regular Season · Air Force
30.5
1 primary · 13.4 efficiency · 4.1 usage
#3
2018 Regular Season · Air Force
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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