Player Dossier

2020-2025

South Dakota

Carter Hooper

DL • 6'5" • 265 lbs • Toronto, ON, Canada

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Carter Hooper shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

18%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

22

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

11

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

35

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Dakota

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
UConn • South Dakota
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8204

IMG Academy · Toronto, ON

Committed To
UConn
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Carter Hooper, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Dakota. Carter Hooper shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
25
TFL
0.5
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Carter Hooper quick answers

Latest team and position
South Dakota · DL
Career Tackles
25
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 18 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · South Dakota
Top game
Tennessee
Recruit profile
3-star · IMG Academy · UConn
High school pipeline
IMG Academy · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 95 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonUConn00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonUConn00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonUConn811-0-1011.8
2023 Regular SeasonUConn9140.5021037.6
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Dakota10-0--054.2

Related Context

Carter Hooper played DL for UConn and South Dakota. Across 5 tracked seasons, Carter Hooper recorded 25 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with UConn.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

South Dakota paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.4 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across UConn, South Dakota.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 88.9th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · UConn

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

10.4

Usage

3.5

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Georgia State: 0. Florida International: 0. Duke: 0. Utah State: 0. South Florida: 0. Boston College: 1. Tennessee: 1. Sacred Heart: 1.5. Massachusetts: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Georgia State: 2 by 8.3. Florida International: 2 by 8.3. Duke: 1 by 4.2. Utah State: 2 by 8.3. South Florida: 3 by 12.5. Boston College: 1 by 14.2. Tennessee: 1 by 14.2. Sacred Heart: 1 by 19.2. Massachusetts: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 7 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Tennessee

Best efficiency game

19.2 vs Sacred Heart

Result
Sat 11/25@ MassachusettsW 31-1810000
Sat 11/18vs Sacred HeartW 31-3100.5001
Sat 11/4@ TennesseeL 3-5910000
Sat 10/28@ Boston CollegeL 14-2110000
Sat 10/21vs South FloridaL 21-2432000
Sat 9/30vs Utah StateL 33-3421000
Sat 9/23vs DukeL 7-4111000
Sat 9/16vs Florida InternationalL 17-2421000
Sat 9/9@ Georgia StateL 14-3521000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    UConn

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    South Dakota

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20202021202220232025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonUConn0
2021 Regular SeasonUConn00
2022 Regular SeasonUConn170.91
2023 Regular SeasonUConn3.510.43.52.5
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Dakota08.3-3.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Tennessee

Week 10 · L 3-59

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

57 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57 takeover score.

#2

@ Boston College

Week 9 · L 14-21

1

Havoc Plays

51.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Sacred Heart

Week 12 · W 31-3

1.5

Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#4

@ Ball State

Week 7 · L 21-25

1

Havoc Plays

39.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 39.5 takeover score.

#5

vs South Florida

Week 8 · L 21-24

0

Havoc Plays

8.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · South Dakota

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · usage

54.2

#2

2023 Regular Season · UConn

37.6

3.5 primary · 10.4 efficiency · 3.5 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · UConn

11.8

1 primary · 7 efficiency · 0.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games