Player Dossier

2021-2025

Colorado

Arden Walker

DE • 6'2" • 250 lbs • Denver, CO, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Arden Walker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 27.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

17%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

32

Developing production for an edge defender

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Reliability

18

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

52

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Colorado

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Missouri • Colorado
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Texas Tech

Player Story

Arden Walker built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive end from Denver, CO wearing No. 53, spending time with Colorado and Missouri. The clearest part of Arden Walker's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8748

Cherry Creek · Englewood, CO

Committed To
Missouri
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Arden Walker, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Colorado. Arden Walker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 27.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
96
TFL
14
Sacks
8
QB hurries
9
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Arden Walker quick answers

Latest team and position
Colorado · DE
Career Tackles
96
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 37 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Colorado
Top game
Texas Tech
Recruit profile
3-star · Cherry Creek · Missouri
High school pipeline
Cherry Creek · 38 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 53 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
42 tackles · DE 29th (top 11%) · Big 12 89th (top 13%) · National 838th (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonMissouri35-0--040.6
2022 Regular SeasonMissouri341.50--015.2
2023 Regular SeasonColorado8121.512-027.8
2024 PostseasonColorado1220.501-052.1
2024 Regular SeasonColorado123164.51-052.1
2025 Regular SeasonColorado11424.52.551062.6

Related Context

Arden Walker played DE for Missouri and Colorado. Across 5 tracked seasons, Arden Walker recorded 96 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Colorado.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Colorado paired 13 primary output with 27.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Missouri, Colorado.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arizona State

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2023 Regular Season · Colorado

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

11.9

Usage

4

Consistency

31.5

Best Game by takeover score

Arizona State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Nebraska: 1. Oregon: 0. Arizona State: 2. Stanford: 0. Oregon State: 0. Arizona: 1. Washington State: 0. Utah: 0.5

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. Nebraska: 0 by 10. Oregon: 1 by 4.2. Arizona State: 2 by 28.3. Stanford: 1 by 4.2. Oregon State: 2 by 8.3. Arizona: 2 by 18.3. Washington State: 2 by 8.3. Utah: 2 by 13.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.5 · Games = 2 · +1.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 6 · -1.3 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

Arizona State

Best efficiency game

28.3 vs Arizona State

Result
Sat 11/25@ UtahL 17-23210.5000
Sat 11/18@ Washington StateL 14-5620000
Sat 11/11vs ArizonaL 31-3421000
Sun 11/5vs Oregon StateL 19-2621000
Sat 10/14vs StanfordL 43-4611000
Sat 10/7@ Arizona StateSplash gameW 27-2421110
Sat 9/23@ OregonL 6-4210000
Sat 9/9vs NebraskaW 36-1400000

Player Story

Arden Walker story

Arden Walker built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive end from Denver, CO wearing No. 53, spending time with Colorado and Missouri. The clearest part of Arden Walker's career was his defensive production: 96 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, 8 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 37 career games in the available record. That gives Arden Walker'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

    Missouri

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Colorado

    2023-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonMissouri071.8
2022 Regular SeasonMissouri1.510.63.31.5
2023 Regular SeasonColorado4.511.943
2024 PostseasonColorado1322.35.68.5
2024 Regular SeasonColorado1322.35.60
2025 Regular SeasonColorado1327.79.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Texas Tech

Week 11 · W 41-27 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

4

Havoc Plays

89.7 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 89.7 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 110 Wyoming

Week 4 · W 37-20

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 No. 18 BYU

Week 5 · L 21-24 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

3

Havoc Plays

75.3 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 75.3 takeover score.

#4

vs New Mexico State

Week 12 · W 45-14

1.5

Havoc Plays

66.9 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 66.9 takeover score.

#5

@ Arizona State

Week 6 · W 27-24 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

65.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 65.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Colorado

13 primary output · 27.7 efficiency · 9.1 usage

62.6

#2

2024 Postseason · Colorado

52.1

13 primary · 22.3 efficiency · 5.6 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Colorado

52.1

13 primary · 22.3 efficiency · 5.6 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

9

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games