Player Dossier

2021-2025

Akron

Alex Branch

CB • 6'0" • 190 lbs • Twinsburg, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Alex Branch shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.8 disruption score.

Usage Score

4.5

Efficiency

20.8

Consistency

48.9

Season Value

22.1

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season · Kent State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Kent State • Akron
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Scouting Read

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Alex Branch, CB. Best season Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season · Kent State. Alex Branch shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.8 disruption score.

Alex Branch played CB for Kent State and Akron. Across 5 tracked seasons, Alex Branch recorded 122 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Kent State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Kent State paired 0 primary output with 12.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 20.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Kent State, Akron.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UAB

Loss with 1.5 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 · Akron

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

20.8

Usage

4.5

Consistency

48.9

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wyoming: 1. Nebraska: 0. UAB: 1.5. Unknown: 1. Toledo: 1. Central Michigan: 0.5. Miami (OH): 0. Ball State: 0. Bowling Green: 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. Wyoming: 9 by 47.5. Nebraska: 3 by 12.5. UAB: 5 by 35.8. Unknown: 3 by 22.5. Toledo: 4 by 26.7. Central Michigan: 4 by 21.7. Miami (OH): 2 by 8.3. Ball State: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 2 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 6 · +0.3 vs Wins
First Half0.9 · Games = 5 · +0.8 vs Second Half
Second Half0.1 · Games = 4 · -0.8 vs First Half

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UAB

Best efficiency game

47.5 vs Wyoming

Result
Wed 11/19@ Bowling GreenW 19-1621000
Sat 10/18@ Ball StateL 28-4211000
Sat 10/11vs Miami (OH)L 7-2021000
Sat 10/4vs Central MichiganW 28-22430.5000
Sat 9/27@ ToledoL 3-4542001
Sat 9/20vs Unknown32100
Sun 9/14@ UABL 28-31540.5001
Sat 9/6@ NebraskaL 0-6832000
Thu 8/28vs WyomingL 0-1095100

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Kent State

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Akron

    2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonKent State012.51.7
2022 Regular SeasonKent State416.53.14
2023 Regular SeasonKent State520.44.61
2024 Regular SeasonKent State131.16.2-4
2025 Regular SeasonAkron520.84.54

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Arkansas

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50 takeover score.

#2

Eastern Michigan

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#3

Pittsburgh

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.2 takeover score.

#4

Ball State

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48 takeover score.

#5

UAB

1.5

Primary metric

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 47.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2021 Regular Season · Kent State

0 primary output · 12.5 efficiency · 1.7 usage

38.1

#2

2023 Regular Season · Kent State

23.7

5 primary · 20.4 efficiency · 4.6 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Akron

22.1

5 primary · 20.8 efficiency · 4.5 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2021 · Rating 0.813

Twinsburg · Twinsburg, OH

Committed To
Kent State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Career Facts

2

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

122

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 33 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.