Player Dossier

2020-2025

Arizona

Riley Wilson

LB • 6'2" • 233 lbs • Prosper, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Riley Wilson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 39.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

85

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Arizona

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Hawai'i • Arizona
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Iowa State

Player Story

Riley Wilson built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Prosper, TX wearing No. 16, spending time with Arizona and Hawai'i. The clearest part of Riley Wilson's career was his defensive...

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Riley Wilson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Arizona. Riley Wilson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 39.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
57
TFL
8
Sacks
3
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Riley Wilson quick answers

Latest team and position
Arizona · LB
Career Tackles
57
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 19 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Arizona
Top game
Iowa State
High school pipeline
Prestonwood Christian · 25 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 16 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
51 tackles · LB 285th (top 23%) · Big 12 65th (top 9%) · National 597th (top 10%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonHawai'i10-0--033.3
2021 Regular SeasonHawai'i55-0--036.8
2022 Regular SeasonHawai'i21-0--035.4
2025 PostseasonArizona112101-074.7
2025 Regular SeasonArizona11497344074.7

Related Context

Riley Wilson played LB for Hawai'i and Arizona. Across 4 tracked seasons, Riley Wilson recorded 2 receiving yards and 57 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Arizona.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Arizona paired 22 primary output with 39.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 39.3 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 Hawai'i, Arizona.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Iowa State

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Postseason · Arizona

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

2

Efficiency

39.3

Usage

11.9

Consistency

60.2

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. SMU: 4. Weber State: 0.5. Iowa State: 5. Oklahoma State: 0.5. BYU: 3. Houston: 0. Colorado: 1.5. Kansas: 2. Cincinnati: 1. Baylor: 2.5. Arizona State: 2

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. SMU: 2 by 48.3. Weber State: 6 by 30. Iowa State: 3 by 62.5. Oklahoma State: 4 by 21.7. BYU: 6 by 55. Houston: 3 by 12.5. Colorado: 4 by 31.7. Kansas: 5 by 40.8. Cincinnati: 6 by 35. Baylor: 6 by 50. Arizona State: 6 by 45

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.4 · Games = 7 · -1.6 vs Losses
Losses3 · Games = 4 · +1.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Iowa State

Best efficiency game

62.5 vs Iowa State

Result
Sat 1/3@ SMUSplash gameL 19-24211020
Sat 11/29@ Arizona StateSplash gameW 23-762002
Sat 11/22vs BaylorSplash gameW 41-17621.5001
Sat 11/15@ CincinnatiW 30-2463000
Sat 11/8vs KansasSplash gameW 24-2051100
Sat 11/1@ ColoradoW 52-17420.5000
Sat 10/18@ HoustonL 28-3132000
Sun 10/12vs BYUSplash gameL 27-3363110
Sat 10/4vs Oklahoma StateW 41-13410.5000
Sat 9/27@ Iowa State2+ sacks · Splash gameL 14-3933221
Sun 9/7vs Weber StateW 48-3630.5000

Player Story

Riley Wilson story

Riley Wilson built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Prosper, TX wearing No. 16, spending time with Arizona and Hawai'i. The clearest part of Riley Wilson's career was his defensive production: 57 tackles, 8 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 2 interceptions across 19 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Arizona. 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 Riley Wilson's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 2 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 19 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Arizona and Hawai'i.

The arc is straightforward: Riley Wilson 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

    Hawai'i

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Arizona

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20202021202220252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonHawai'i000
2021 Regular SeasonHawai'i04.20.70
2022 Regular SeasonHawai'i02.10.50
2025 PostseasonArizona2239.311.922
2025 Regular SeasonArizona2239.311.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 33 Iowa State

Week 5 · L 14-39 · Conference game

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

5

Havoc Plays

87.5 takeover

5 disruption/tackle impact with 87.5 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 23 SMU

Week 1 · L 19-24 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

4

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 18 BYU

Week 7 · L 27-33 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

71.7 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 58 Kansas

Week 11 · W 24-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

60.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.3 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 71 Baylor

Week 13 · W 41-17 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

57.5 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Arizona

22 primary output · 39.3 efficiency · 11.9 usage

74.7

#2

2025 Regular Season · Arizona

74.7

22 primary · 39.3 efficiency · 11.9 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Hawai'i

36.8

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

6

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games