Player Dossier

2018-2023

Texas State

Brian Holloway

LB • 6'0" • 225 lbs • League City, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brian Holloway shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 53 disruption score.

Usage / Role

15%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

35

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

47

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Texas State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
SMU • Texas State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss

Player Story

Brian Holloway built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a linebacker from League City, TX, spending time with SMU and Texas State. The clearest part of Brian Holloway's career was his defensive production:...

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Brian Holloway, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Texas State. Brian Holloway shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 53 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
185
TFL
23.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
8
Passes defended
1
Touchdowns
4

Quick Answers

Brian Holloway quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas State · LB
Career Tackles
185
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 38 games
Best season
2023 Postseason · Texas State
Top game
Southern Miss
Latest roster
Senior
2023 Tackles rank
105 tackles · LB 32nd (top 3%) · Sun Belt 6th (top 1%) · National 39th (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonSMU00-0--0-
2019 Regular SeasonSMU7212.50--016.9
2020 Regular SeasonSMU69-0-106.6
2021 Regular SeasonSMU11-0--036.7
2022 Regular SeasonTexas State114951--025.4
2023 PostseasonTexas State136-0--477.6
2023 Regular SeasonTexas State1399161.58-077.6

Related Context

Brian Holloway played LB for SMU and Texas State. Across 6 tracked seasons, Brian Holloway recorded 185 tackles and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Texas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Texas State paired 29.5 primary output with 53 efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2023 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 SMU, Texas State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: East Carolina

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2019 Regular Season · SMU

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

16.1

Usage

3.4

Consistency

14.3

Best Game by takeover score

East Carolina

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. North Texas: 1. Texas State: 0. Tulsa: 0. Temple: 0. Houston: 0.5. East Carolina: 1. Tulane: 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. North Texas: 3 by 22.5. Texas State: 4 by 16.7. Tulsa: 1 by 4.2. Temple: 2 by 8.3. Houston: 3 by 17.5. East Carolina: 7 by 39.2. Tulane: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

East Carolina

Best efficiency game

39.2 vs East Carolina

Result
Sat 11/30vs TulaneW 37-2011000
Sat 11/9vs East CarolinaW 59-5174100
Thu 10/24@ HoustonW 34-31310.5000
Sat 10/19vs TempleW 45-2121000
Sat 10/5vs TulsaW 43-3711000
Sat 9/14vs Texas StateW 47-1743000
Sat 9/7vs North TexasW 49-2732100

Player Story

Brian Holloway story

Brian Holloway built his college career from 2018 through 2023 as a linebacker from League City, TX, spending time with SMU and Texas State. The clearest part of Brian Holloway's career was his defensive production: 185 tackles, 23.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and 4 interceptions across 38 career games in the available record. That gives Brian Holloway'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

    SMU

    2018-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Texas State

    2022-2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2018201920202021202220232023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonSMU0
2019 Regular SeasonSMU2.516.13.42.5
2020 Regular SeasonSMU17.91.1-1.5
2021 Regular SeasonSMU04.20.7-1
2022 Regular SeasonTexas State6245.86
2023 PostseasonTexas State29.55313.423.5
2023 Regular SeasonTexas State29.55313.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Southern Miss

Week 5 · W 50-36 · Conference game

Win with 6.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6.5

Havoc Plays

91.7 takeover

6.5 disruption/tackle impact with 91.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Arkansas State

Week 12 · W 16-13 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

88.3 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 88.3 takeover score.

#3

vs South Alabama

Week 13 · W 52-44 · Conference game

4.5

Havoc Plays

88.1 takeover

Win with 4.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.1 takeover score.

#4

@ UTSA

Week 2 · L 13-20

3.5

Havoc Plays

79.6 takeover

Loss with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 79.6 takeover score.

#5

vs Nevada

Week 4 · W 35-24

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Havoc Plays

75.4 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 75.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Postseason · Texas State

29.5 primary output · 53 efficiency · 13.4 usage

77.6

#2

2023 Regular Season · Texas State

77.6

29.5 primary · 53 efficiency · 13.4 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · SMU

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

9

Impact games

9

Splash games

4

10+ tackle games