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 23.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

73

High-end production for a corner

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Reliability

83

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

66

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Akron

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Snapshot

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

Player Story

Alex Branch built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Twinsburg, OH wearing No. 3, spending time with Akron and Kent State. The clearest part of Alex Branch's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.813

Twinsburg · Twinsburg, OH

Committed To
Kent State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Alex Branch, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Akron. Alex Branch shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
122
TFL
5.5
Sacks
0.5
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
8

Quick Answers

Alex Branch quick answers

Latest team and position
Akron · CB
Career Tackles
122
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 33 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Akron
Top game
UAB
Recruit profile
3-star · Twinsburg · Kent State
High school pipeline
Twinsburg · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 3 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
33 tackles · CB 88th (top 19%) · Mid-American 116th (top 20%) · National 1,203rd (top 20%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonKent State13-0--042.2
2022 Regular SeasonKent State113410-3027.9
2023 Regular SeasonKent State9321.50.5-3044.9
2024 Regular SeasonKent State320-0--026.6
2025 Regular SeasonAkron9333022049.6

Related Context

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: 2025 Regular Season

Akron paired 7 primary output with 23.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 31.1 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: Pittsburgh

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Kent State

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

31.1

Usage

6

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Pittsburgh: 1. St. Francis (PA): 0. Eastern Michigan: 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. Pittsburgh: 6 by 35. St. Francis (PA): 5 by 20.8. Eastern Michigan: 9 by 37.5

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

Best efficiency game

37.5 vs Eastern Michigan

Result
Sat 9/28vs Eastern MichiganL 33-5297000
Sat 9/7vs St. Francis (PA)L 17-2354000
Sat 8/31@ PittsburghL 24-55620010

Player Story

Alex Branch story

Alex Branch built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Twinsburg, OH wearing No. 3, spending time with Akron and Kent State. The clearest part of Alex Branch's career was his defensive production: 122 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 1 interception across 33 career games in the available record. That gives Alex Branch's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

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 Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonKent State012.51.7
2022 Regular SeasonKent State416.53.14
2023 Regular SeasonKent State520.43.91
2024 Regular SeasonKent State131.16-4
2025 Regular SeasonAkron723.14.76

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 125 UAB

Week 3 · L 28-31

Loss with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5

Havoc Plays

85.3 takeover

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 85.3 takeover score.

#2

@ Arkansas

Week 2 · L 6-28

1

Havoc Plays

76.4 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.

#3

@ Georgia

Week 4 · L 22-39

1

Havoc Plays

72.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 72.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Pittsburgh

Week 1 · L 24-55

1

Havoc Plays

70.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 70.3 takeover score.

#5

@ Eastern Michigan

Week 7 · L 14-28 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

65.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 65.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Akron

7 primary output · 23.1 efficiency · 4.7 usage

49.6

#2

2023 Regular Season · Kent State

44.9

5 primary · 20.4 efficiency · 3.9 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Kent State

42.2

0 primary · 12.5 efficiency · 1.7 usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games