Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025North Texas
Briceon Hayes
DL • 6'3" • 231 lbs • Huntsville, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Briceon Hayes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
18
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
12
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
28
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Sam Houston
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Sam Houston • North Texas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State
Player Story
Briceon Hayes built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Huntsville, TX wearing No. 44, spending time with North Texas and Sam Houston. The clearest part of Briceon Hayes' career was...
Read the storyBriceon Hayes, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Sam Houston. Briceon Hayes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 72
- TFL
- 9.5
- Sacks
- 6.5
- QB hurries
- 9
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Briceon Hayes quick answers
- Latest team and position
- North Texas · DL
- Career Tackles
- 72
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 29 games
- Best season
- 2024 Postseason · Sam Houston
- Top game
- New Mexico State
- High school pipeline
- Huntsville · 12 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 44 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 32 tackles · DL 122nd (top 12%) · American Athletic 128th (top 20%) · National 1,259th (top 21%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 8 | 10 | - | 0 | 3 | - | 0 | 15.8 |
| 2024 Postseason | Sam Houston | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 65.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 11 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 65.9 |
| 2025 Postseason | North Texas | 10 | 1 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 37.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Texas | 10 | 31 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2 | - | 0 | 37.3 |
Related Context
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Briceon Hayes played DL for Sam Houston and North Texas. Across 3 tracked seasons, Briceon Hayes recorded 72 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with North Texas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason
Sam Houston paired 17 primary output with 26.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Sam Houston, North Texas.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Regular Season · Sam Houston
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
9
Usage
2.9
Consistency
12.5
Best Game by takeover score
Jacksonville State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Air Force: 0. Houston: 0. Jacksonville State: 1. Liberty: 0. New Mexico State: 1. Florida International: 0. Louisiana Tech: 1. Middle Tennessee: 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. Air Force: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 1 by 4.2. Jacksonville State: 2 by 18.3. Liberty: 2 by 8.3. New Mexico State: 1 by 14.2. Florida International: 1 by 4.2. Louisiana Tech: 0 by 10. Middle Tennessee: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
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Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 6 · -0.2 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Jacksonville State
Best efficiency game
18.3 vs Jacksonville State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/25 | vs Middle Tennessee | W 23-20 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/11 | @ Louisiana Tech | W 42-27 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Wed 10/18 | vs Florida International | L 27-33 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 10/12 | @ New Mexico State | L 13-27 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 10/5 | @ Liberty | L 16-21 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 9/29 | vs Jacksonville State | L 28-35 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/23 | @ Houston | L 7-38 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/10 | vs Air Force | L 3-13 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Briceon Hayes story
Briceon Hayes built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Huntsville, TX wearing No. 44, spending time with North Texas and Sam Houston. The clearest part of Briceon Hayes' career was his defensive production: 72 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks, and 1 interception across 29 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Sam Houston. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Briceon Hayes' production has multiple signals. With 29 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across North Texas and Sam Houston.
The arc is straightforward: Briceon Hayes moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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- 1
Sam Houston
2023-2024
Opening stop
- 2
North Texas
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 3 | 9 | 2.9 | — |
| 2024 Postseason | Sam Houston | 17 | 26.8 | 9.2 | 14 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 17 | 26.8 | 9.2 | 0 |
| 2025 Postseason | North Texas | 7 | 20.3 | 5.7 | -10 |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Texas | 7 | 20.3 | 5.7 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs New Mexico State
Week 4 · W 31-11 · Conference game
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
85 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 85 takeover score.
#2
vs Georgia Southern
Week 1 · W 31-26 · Postseason
3
Havoc Plays
83.6 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.
#3
vs Hawai'i
Week 3 · W 31-13
3
Havoc Plays
79.4 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.4 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 62 UTSA
Week 8 · W 55-17 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
76.4 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 134 Charlotte
Week 9 · W 54-20 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
66.4 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 66.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Postseason · Sam Houston
17 primary output · 26.8 efficiency · 9.2 usage
65.9
#2
2024 Regular Season · Sam Houston
65.9
17 primary · 26.8 efficiency · 9.2 usage
#3
2025 Postseason · North Texas
37.3
7 primary · 20.3 efficiency · 5.7 usage
Milestones
6
Impact games
8
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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