Usage / Role
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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2023Kansas
Austin Booker
DL • 6'6" • 245 lbs • Greenwood, IN, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Austin Booker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
84
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
89
Elite ceiling indicators
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Kansas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Minnesota • Kansas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: BYU
Player Story
Austin Booker built his college career from 2021 through 2023 as a defensive lineman from Greenwood, IN wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas and Minnesota. The clearest part of Austin Booker's career was his...
Read the storyNFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2024
- Selection
- Round 5 · Pick 9
- Overall
- No. 144
- NFL Team
- Chicago Bears
Austin Booker, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Kansas. Austin Booker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 57
- TFL
- 13
- Sacks
- 8
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Austin Booker quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kansas · DL
- Career Tackles
- 57
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 12 games
- Best season
- 2023 Regular Season · Kansas
- Top game
- BYU
- NFL Draft
- 2024 · Round 5 · Pick 9 · Chicago Bears
- Latest roster
- No. 9 · Sophomore
- 2023 Tackles rank
- 55 tackles · DL 15th (top 2%) · Big 12 47th (top 8%) · National 458th (top 8%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | Minnesota | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 24.5 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kansas | 10 | 55 | 12 | 8 | - | 1 | 0 | 77.6 |
Related Context
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Austin Booker played DL for Minnesota and Kansas. Across 3 tracked seasons, Austin Booker recorded 57 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Kansas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season
Kansas paired 21 primary output with 43.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 43.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2023 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 Minnesota, Kansas.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: BYU
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Regular Season · Kansas
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
2.1
Efficiency
43.9
Usage
14.8
Consistency
66.6
Best Game by takeover score
BYU
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Illinois: 4. BYU: 4. Texas: 2. UCF: 3. Oklahoma State: 0. Oklahoma: 2. Iowa State: 0. Texas Tech: 2. Kansas State: 3. Cincinnati: 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. Illinois: 3 by 52.5. BYU: 7 by 69.2. Texas: 7 by 49.2. UCF: 4 by 46.7. Oklahoma State: 9 by 37.5. Oklahoma: 6 by 45. Iowa State: 1 by 4.2. Texas Tech: 4 by 36.7. Kansas State: 6 by 55. Cincinnati: 8 by 43.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins2.3 · Games = 6 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses1.8 · Games = 4 · -0.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
BYU
Best efficiency game
69.2 vs BYU
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/26 | @ Cincinnati | W 49-16 | 8 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sun 11/19 | vs Kansas StateSplash game | L 27-31 | 6 | 6 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/11 | vs Texas TechSplash game | L 13-16 | 4 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/4 | @ Iowa State | W 28-21 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/28 | vs OklahomaSplash game | W 38-33 | 6 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/14 | @ Oklahoma State | L 32-39 | 9 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | vs UCFSplash game | W 51-22 | 4 | 4 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/30 | @ TexasSplash game | L 14-40 | 7 | 5 | — | 1.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/23 | vs BYUSplash game | W 38-27 | 7 | 6 | — | 2.50 | 1.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 9/8 | vs Illinois2+ sacks · Splash game | W 34-23 | 3 | 2 | — | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Austin Booker story
Austin Booker built his college career from 2021 through 2023 as a defensive lineman from Greenwood, IN wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas and Minnesota. The clearest part of Austin Booker's career was his defensive production: 57 tackles, 13 tackles for loss, 8 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 12 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Kansas. 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 Austin Booker's production has multiple signals. With 12 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kansas and Minnesota.
The arc is straightforward: Austin Booker 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
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Minnesota
2021-2022
Opening stop
- 2
Kansas
2023
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Minnesota | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | Minnesota | 1 | 9.2 | 4.1 | 1 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kansas | 21 | 43.9 | 14.8 | 20 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs BYU
Week 4 · W 38-27 · Conference game
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4
Havoc Plays
89.7 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 89.7 takeover score.
#2
vs Illinois
Week 2 · W 34-23
4
Havoc Plays
84.2 takeover
Win with backfield disruption leading the way.
4 disruption/tackle impact with 84.2 takeover score.
#3
vs Kansas State
Week 12 · L 27-31 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
76.7 takeover
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 76.7 takeover score.
#4
vs UCF
Week 6 · W 51-22 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
73.9 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 73.9 takeover score.
#5
@ Texas
Week 5 · L 14-40 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
66.4 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 66.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2023 Regular Season · Kansas
21 primary output · 43.9 efficiency · 14.8 usage
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#2
2022 Regular Season · Minnesota
24.5
1 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 4.1 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Minnesota
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
7
Impact games
7
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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