Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2022Northern Illinois
Brian Whitsey
LB • 6'0" • 218 lbs • Chicago, IL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Brian Whitsey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Northern Illinois
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Ohio
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- Committed To
- Northern Illinois
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
Brian Whitsey, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois. Brian Whitsey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 1
Quick Answers
Brian Whitsey quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Northern Illinois · LB
- Career Tackles
- 1
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 1 games
- Best season
- 2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
- Top game
- Ohio
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Solorio Academy · Northern Illinois
- High school pipeline
- Solorio Academy · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 35 · Freshman
- 2022 Tackles rank
- 1 tackles · LB 1,103rd (top 90%) · Mid-American 445th (top 82%) · National 4,670th (top 80%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.7 |
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Brian Whitsey played LB for Northern Illinois. Across 2 tracked seasons, Brian Whitsey recorded 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Northern Illinois.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season
Northern Illinois paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2022 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Ohio
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.7
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Ohio
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All Games0 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Ohio
Best efficiency game
4.2 vs Ohio
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10/22 | @ Ohio | L 17-24 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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Northern Illinois
2021-2022
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20212022
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | Northern Illinois | 0 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Ohio
Week 8 · L 17-24 · Conference game
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
3.3 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2022 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage
36.7
#2
2021 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
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Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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