Player Dossier

2024-2025

Kennesaw State

Baron Hopson

LB • 6'1" • 215 lbs • Leesburg, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Baron Hopson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 53.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

41

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

25

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

45

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Kennesaw State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Kennesaw State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida International

Player Story

Baron Hopson built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Leesburg, GA wearing No. 44, spending time with Kennesaw State. The clearest part of Baron Hopson's career was his defensive...

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Baron Hopson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Kennesaw State. Baron Hopson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 53.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
158
TFL
10
Sacks
0.5
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
7

Quick Answers

Baron Hopson quick answers

Latest team and position
Kennesaw State · LB
Career Tackles
158
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 18 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Kennesaw State
Top game
Florida International
High school pipeline
Green Canyon · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
139 tackles · LB 4th (top 1%) · Conference USA 1st (top 1%) · National 4th (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonKennesaw State419-0-1015.3
2025 PostseasonKennesaw State14120.50--079.3
2025 Regular SeasonKennesaw State141279.50.526079.3

Related Context

Baron Hopson played LB for Kennesaw State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Baron Hopson recorded 158 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kennesaw State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Kennesaw State paired 19.5 primary output with 53.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 21.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UTSA

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 75th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Kennesaw State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

21.3

Usage

3.2

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

UTSA

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UTSA: 0. Louisiana: 0. San José State: 1. Jacksonville State: 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. UTSA: 13 by 50. Louisiana: 3 by 12.5. San José State: 0 by 10. Jacksonville State: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

First Half0 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UTSA

Best efficiency game

50 vs UTSA

Result
Fri 10/4vs Jacksonville StateL 24-6331000
Sat 9/14@ San José StateL 10-3100001
Sat 9/7vs LouisianaL 10-3431000
Sat 8/31@ UTSA10+ tacklesL 16-28134000

Player Story

Baron Hopson story

Baron Hopson built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Leesburg, GA wearing No. 44, spending time with Kennesaw State. The clearest part of Baron Hopson's career was his defensive production: 158 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 1 interception across 18 career games in the available record. That gives Baron Hopson's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Kennesaw State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonKennesaw State121.33.2
2025 PostseasonKennesaw State19.553.512.818.5
2025 Regular SeasonKennesaw State19.553.512.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 107 Florida International

Week 9 · W 45-26 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

93.3 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 93.3 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 108 Missouri State

Week 13 · W 41-34 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

87.8 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 87.8 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 102 Liberty

Week 14 · W 48-42 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 100 Arkansas State

Week 4 · W 28-21

2

Havoc Plays

70.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 92 Jacksonville State

Week 12 · L 26-35 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

68.9 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 68.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Kennesaw State

19.5 primary output · 53.5 efficiency · 12.8 usage

79.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Kennesaw State

79.3

19.5 primary · 53.5 efficiency · 12.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Kennesaw State

15.3

1 primary · 21.3 efficiency · 3.2 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

5

Splash games

10

10+ tackle games