Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2024Utah State
Cole Joyce
LB • 6'0" • 230 lbs • Bentonville, AR, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Cole Joyce shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
48
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
23
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
67
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Utah State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- UCF • Utah State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Air Force
Player Story
Cole Joyce built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a linebacker from Bentonville, AR wearing No. 20, spending time with UCF and Utah State. The clearest part of Cole Joyce's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Kennesaw State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2026
Cole Joyce, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Utah State. Cole Joyce shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 41
- TFL
- 5
- Sacks
- 3
Quick Answers
Cole Joyce quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Utah State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 41
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2023 Regular Season · Utah State
- Top game
- Air Force
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · McEachern · Kennesaw State
- High school pipeline
- McEachern · 45 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Junior
- 2024 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · LB 646th (top 53%) · Mountain West 211th (top 39%) · National 2,389th (top 40%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | UCF | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | Utah State | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.4 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Utah State | 8 | 25 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 50.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Utah State | 7 | 15 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 38.4 |
Related Context
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Cole Joyce played LB for UCF and Utah State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Cole Joyce recorded 41 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Utah State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season
Utah State paired 4 primary output with 18 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 14.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across UCF, Utah State.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: San Diego State
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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2024 Regular Season · Utah State
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
14.7
Usage
3.6
Consistency
9.5
Best Game by takeover score
San Diego State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Robert Morris: 0. Utah: 0. Boise State: 0. New Mexico: 0. Washington State: 1. Hawai'i: 0. San Diego State: 3
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. Robert Morris: 2 by 8.3. Utah: 1 by 4.2. Boise State: 1 by 4.2. Washington State: 1 by 14.2. Hawai'i: 4 by 16.7. San Diego State: 6 by 55
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1 · Games = 3 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.8 vs Wins
Game Log
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7 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
San Diego State
Best efficiency game
55 vs San Diego State
Player Story
Cole Joyce story
Cole Joyce built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a linebacker from Bentonville, AR wearing No. 20, spending time with UCF and Utah State. The clearest part of Cole Joyce's career was his defensive production: 41 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, and 3 sacks across 16 career games in the available record. That gives Cole Joyce'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
UCF
2021
Opening stop
- 2
Utah State
2022-2024
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2021202220232024
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | UCF | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | Utah State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Utah State | 4 | 18 | 9.2 | 4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Utah State | 4 | 14.7 | 3.6 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Air Force
Week 3 · L 21-39 · Conference game
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
88.6 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 88.6 takeover score.
#2
vs San Diego State
Week 13 · W 41-20 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
80.3 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.3 takeover score.
#3
vs Idaho State
Week 2 · W 78-28
2
Havoc Plays
73.9 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.9 takeover score.
#4
@ Washington State
Week 11 · L 28-49
1
Havoc Plays
41.1 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.1 takeover score.
#5
vs Hawai'i
Week 12 · W 55-10 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
14.2 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2023 Regular Season · Utah State
4 primary output · 18 efficiency · 9.2 usage
50.8
#2
2024 Regular Season · Utah State
38.4
4 primary · 14.7 efficiency · 3.6 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Utah State
36.4
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
3
Splash games
1
10+ tackle games
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