Player Dossier

2020-2025

UConn

Aaron Key

LB • 6'2" • 230 lbs • Tucker, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Aaron Key shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

20%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

46

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

68

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · UConn

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Western Kentucky • UConn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Boston College

Player Story

Aaron Key built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Tucker, GA wearing No. 5, spending time with UConn and Western Kentucky. The clearest part of Aaron Key's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8226

Tucker · Tucker, GA

Committed To
Western Kentucky
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Aaron Key, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · UConn. Aaron Key shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
91
TFL
11.5
Sacks
3.5
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Aaron Key quick answers

Latest team and position
UConn · LB
Career Tackles
91
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 38 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · UConn
Top game
Boston College
Recruit profile
3-star · Tucker · Western Kentucky
High school pipeline
Georgetown · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
28 tackles · LB 490th (top 39%) · FBS Independents 20th (top 22%) · National 1,474th (top 24%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky213-0-1032.4
2021 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky8123.51.511040.7
2023 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky9281.50--020
2024 PostseasonUConn6411--017.8
2024 Regular SeasonUConn660.50--017.8
2025 PostseasonUConn131-0--051.6
2025 Regular SeasonUConn13275112051.6

Related Context

Aaron Key played LB for Western Kentucky and UConn. Across 6 tracked seasons, Aaron Key recorded 12 receiving yards and 91 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Western Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

UConn paired 10 primary output with 16.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 15 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 Western Kentucky, UConn.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2022 Regular Season · Western Kentucky

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.9

Efficiency

15

Usage

5

Consistency

35.7

Best Game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Hawai'i: 0. Austin Peay: 0. Florida International: 2. Troy: 1. UTSA: 0. Middle Tennessee: 3. North Texas: 1. Charlotte: 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. Hawai'i: 1 by 4.2. Austin Peay: 1 by 4.2. Florida International: 1 by 24.2. Troy: 1 by 14.2. UTSA: 1 by 4.2. Middle Tennessee: 2 by 38.3. North Texas: 0 by 10. Charlotte: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 5 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.7 · Games = 3 · -0.3 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

Middle Tennessee

Best efficiency game

38.3 vs Middle Tennessee

Result
Sat 11/5@ CharlotteW 59-755000
Sat 10/29vs North TexasL 13-4000000
Sat 10/15@ Middle TennesseeSplash gameW 35-1722210
Sat 10/8@ UTSAL 28-3111000
Sat 10/1vs TroyL 27-34100.500.500
Sat 9/24vs Florida InternationalSplash gameW 73-011101
Sun 9/4@ Hawai'iW 49-1711000
Sat 8/27vs Austin PeayW 38-2710000

Player Story

Aaron Key story

Aaron Key built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Tucker, GA wearing No. 5, spending time with UConn and Western Kentucky. The clearest part of Aaron Key's career was his defensive production: 91 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, and 2 interceptions across 38 career games in the available record. His career also includes 12 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Aaron Key'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

    Western Kentucky

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UConn

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20202021202220232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky132.14.5
2021 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky0-1
2022 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky71557
2023 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky2.515.73.4-4.5
2024 PostseasonUConn2.511.12.90
2024 Regular SeasonUConn2.511.12.90
2025 PostseasonUConn1016.74.37.5
2025 Regular SeasonUConn1016.74.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 97 Boston College

Week 8 · W 38-23

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

83.6 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.

#2

@ Middle Tennessee

Week 7 · W 35-17 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

79.4 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.4 takeover score.

#3

@ North Carolina

Week 1 · W 27-14 · Postseason

2

Havoc Plays

74.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Jacksonville State

Week 8 · L 17-20 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

63.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

#5

vs South Florida

Week 1 · W 41-24

1

Havoc Plays

61.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · UConn

10 primary output · 16.7 efficiency · 4.3 usage

51.6

#2

2025 Regular Season · UConn

51.6

10 primary · 16.7 efficiency · 4.3 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Western Kentucky

40.7

7 primary · 15 efficiency · 5 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

4

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games