Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Texas Tech paired 8 primary output with 15.2 efficiency.
Player Stats
Charles Esters III College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 51
- TFL
- 10.5
- Sacks
- 3.5
- QB hurries
- 8
- Passes defended
- 4
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37 |
| 2023 Postseason | Texas Tech | 9 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 46.8 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 9 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 46.8 |
| 2024 Postseason | Texas Tech | 7 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 47.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 7 | 15 | 3 | 0.5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 47.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 49.6 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.2 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: BYU
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Regular Season · Texas Tech
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
15.2
Usage
4.1
Consistency
73
Best Game by takeover score
BYU
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 1. Kansas: 0.5. Oklahoma State: 1. Kansas State: 0. BYU: 2. UCF: 1. West Virginia: 1.5. BYU: 1
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. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 2 by 18.3. Kansas: 2 by 13.3. Oklahoma State: 1 by 14.2. Kansas State: 1 by 4.2. BYU: 0 by 20. UCF: 1 by 14.2. West Virginia: 3 by 27.5. BYU: 0 by 10
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half0.6 · Games = 4 · -0.8 vs Second Half
Second Half1.4 · Games = 4 · +0.8 vs First Half
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