Player Dossier

2020-2025

West Virginia

Braden Siders

LB • 6'2" • 238 lbs • Thornton, CO, USA

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Braden Siders shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

25%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · Wyoming

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Wyoming • West Virginia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico

Player Story

Braden Siders built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Thornton, CO wearing No. 10, spending time with West Virginia and Wyoming. The clearest part of Braden Siders' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.78

Ralston Valley · Arvada, CO

Committed To
Wyoming
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Braden Siders, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · Wyoming. Braden Siders shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
108
TFL
21.5
Sacks
13.5
QB hurries
10
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Braden Siders quick answers

Latest team and position
West Virginia · LB
Career Tackles
108
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 39 games
Best season
2022 Postseason · Wyoming
Top game
New Mexico
Recruit profile
2-star · Ralston Valley · Wyoming
High school pipeline
Ralston Valley · 9 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
24 tackles · LB 536th (top 43%) · Big 12 195th (top 27%) · National 1,749th (top 29%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonWyoming00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonWyoming00-0--0-
2022 PostseasonWyoming13222--072.9
2022 Regular SeasonWyoming133810.5561072.9
2023 PostseasonWyoming92-0--036.2
2023 Regular SeasonWyoming9224.53.532036.2
2024 Regular SeasonWyoming6203.52--046.2
2025 Regular SeasonWest Virginia11241111013.2

Related Context

Braden Siders played LB for Wyoming and West Virginia. Across 6 tracked seasons, Braden Siders recorded 108 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Wyoming.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Postseason

Wyoming paired 26.5 primary output with 32.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 25.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 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 Wyoming, West Virginia.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Hawai'i

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Postseason · Wyoming

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

1.4

Efficiency

25.5

Usage

6.6

Consistency

14.8

Best Game by takeover score

Hawai'i

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Toledo: 0. Texas Tech: 3. Texas: 0. App State: 3. Air Force: 0. Boise State: 0. UNLV: 0. Hawai'i: 4. Nevada: 3

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Toledo: 2 by 8.3. Texas Tech: 2 by 38.3. Texas: 2 by 8.3. App State: 2 by 38.3. Air Force: 5 by 20.8. Boise State: 2 by 8.3. UNLV: 2 by 8.3. Hawai'i: 4 by 56.7. Nevada: 3 by 42.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.6 · Games = 5 · +2.6 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -2.6 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Hawai'i

Best efficiency game

56.7 vs Hawai'i

Result
Sat 12/30vs ToledoW 16-1522000
Sun 11/26@ NevadaSplash gameW 42-6311.501.500
Sat 11/18vs Hawai'iSplash gameW 42-943210
Sat 11/11@ UNLVL 14-3420000
Sat 10/28@ Boise StateL 7-3220000
Sat 10/14@ Air ForceL 27-3454000
Sat 9/23vs App StateSplash gameW 22-1922001
Sun 9/17@ TexasL 10-3121000
Sat 9/2vs Texas TechSplash gameW 35-3322111

Player Story

Braden Siders story

Braden Siders built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Thornton, CO wearing No. 10, spending time with West Virginia and Wyoming. The clearest part of Braden Siders' career was his defensive production: 108 tackles, 21.5 tackles for loss, 13.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 39 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with Wyoming. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Braden Siders' production has multiple signals. With 39 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across West Virginia and Wyoming.

The arc is straightforward: Braden Siders moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Wyoming

    2020-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    West Virginia

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20202021202220222023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonWyoming0
2021 Regular SeasonWyoming00
2022 PostseasonWyoming26.532.414.326.5
2022 Regular SeasonWyoming26.532.414.30
2023 PostseasonWyoming1325.56.6-13.5
2023 Regular SeasonWyoming1325.56.60
2024 Regular SeasonWyoming5.523.111.3-7.5
2025 Regular SeasonWest Virginia412.72.3-1.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ New Mexico

Week 6 · W 27-14 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

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Havoc Plays

90.3 takeover

6 disruption/tackle impact with 90.3 takeover score.

#2

vs Hawai'i

Week 12 · W 42-9 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

85.6 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 85.6 takeover score.

#3

@ San José State

Week 8 · L 14-24 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Arizona State

Week 1 · L 7-48

2

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 3 Texas Tech

Week 14 · L 0-49 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

3

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Postseason · Wyoming

26.5 primary output · 32.4 efficiency · 14.3 usage

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#2

2022 Regular Season · Wyoming

72.9

26.5 primary · 32.4 efficiency · 14.3 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Wyoming

46.2

5.5 primary · 23.1 efficiency · 11.3 usage

Milestones

12

Impact games

15

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games