Player Dossier

2021-2025

UTSA

Ian Jackson

LB • 6'2" • 230 lbs • Prattville, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ian Jackson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

23

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

18

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

38

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · UTSA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Alabama • UTSA
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Rice
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9127

Prattville · Prattville, AL

Committed To
Alabama
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Ian Jackson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · UTSA. Ian Jackson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
14
TFL
1

Quick Answers

Ian Jackson quick answers

Latest team and position
UTSA · LB
Career Tackles
14
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 8 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · UTSA
Top game
Rice
Recruit profile
4-star · Prattville · Alabama
High school pipeline
Prattville · 29 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
11 tackles · LB 726th (top 57%) · American Athletic 299th (top 47%) · National 2,806th (top 46%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonAlabama00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonAlabama11-0--036.7
2023 Regular SeasonAlabama00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonUTSA22-0--037.5
2025 Regular SeasonUTSA51110--034

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Alabama to UTSAP4 to G5/FCS79.1Jan 4, 2024

Ian Jackson played LB for Alabama and UTSA. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ian Jackson recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UTSA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

UTSA paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.2 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 Alabama, UTSA.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Rice

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

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · UTSA

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

11.2

Usage

2.2

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Rice

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Texas A&M: 0. Rice: 1. North Texas: 0. South Florida: 0. East Carolina: 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. Texas A&M: 1 by 4.2. Rice: 4 by 26.7. North Texas: 2 by 8.3. South Florida: 2 by 8.3. East Carolina: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -0.5 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

Rice

Best efficiency game

26.7 vs Rice

Result
Sat 11/22vs East CarolinaW 58-2421000
Fri 11/7@ South FloridaL 23-5520000
Sat 10/18@ North TexasL 17-5522000
Sat 10/11vs RiceW 61-1343100
Sat 8/30@ Texas A&ML 24-4211000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Alabama

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UTSA

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonAlabama0
2022 Regular SeasonAlabama04.20.70
2023 Regular SeasonAlabama00
2024 Regular SeasonUTSA04.210
2025 Regular SeasonUTSA111.22.21

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 120 Rice

Week 7 · W 61-13 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

56.1 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.1 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 29 South Florida

Week 11 · L 23-55 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.6 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 38 East Carolina

Week 13 · W 58-24 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 22 North Texas

Week 8 · L 17-55 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

#5

@ Rice

Week 7 · L 27-29 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · UTSA

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

37.5

#2

2022 Regular Season · Alabama

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · UTSA

34

1 primary · 11.2 efficiency · 2.2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games