Player Dossier

2021-2025

Washington State

Gavin Barthiel

LB • 6'0" • 225 lbs • Lakeland, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Gavin Barthiel shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

99%

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

83

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Utah State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Washington State • Utah State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Utah State

Player Story

Gavin Barthiel built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Lakeland, FL wearing No. 40, spending time with Utah State and Washington State. The clearest part of Gavin Barthiel's career was...

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Gavin Barthiel, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Utah State. Gavin Barthiel shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
30
TFL
3
Sacks
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Gavin Barthiel quick answers

Latest team and position
Washington State · LB
Career Tackles
30
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 12 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Utah State
Top game
Utah State
High school pipeline
Grant Union · 28 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 40 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · LB 695th (top 55%) · Pac-12 38th (top 38%) · National 2,703rd (top 44%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonWashington State00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonWashington State00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonUtah State61821-1044.8
2025 PostseasonWashington State6511--023.7
2025 Regular SeasonWashington State67-0--023.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Utah State to Washington StateG5/FCS to G5/FCS19.6Jan 13, 2025
2023Washington State to Utah StateG5/FCS to G5/FCS19.6Dec 6, 2022

Gavin Barthiel played LB for Washington State and Utah State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Gavin Barthiel recorded 30 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Utah State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Utah State paired 4 primary output with 19.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 11.7 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 Washington State, Utah State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Utah State

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 Postseason · Washington State

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

11.7

Usage

3.3

Consistency

5.6

Best Game by takeover score

Utah State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah State: 2. North Texas: 0. Colorado State: 0. Toledo: 0. James Madison: 0. Oregon State: 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. Utah State: 5 by 40.8. North Texas: 3 by 12.5. Colorado State: 1 by 4.2. Toledo: 1 by 4.2. James Madison: 1 by 4.2. Oregon State: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 4 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Utah State

Best efficiency game

40.8 vs Utah State

Result
Mon 12/22@ Utah StateSplash gameW 34-2154110
Sat 11/29vs Oregon StateW 32-811000
Sat 11/22@ James MadisonL 20-2410000
Sat 10/25vs ToledoW 28-711000
Sat 9/27@ Colorado StateW 20-310000
Sat 9/13@ North TexasL 10-5931000

Player Story

Gavin Barthiel story

Gavin Barthiel built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Lakeland, FL wearing No. 40, spending time with Utah State and Washington State. The clearest part of Gavin Barthiel's career was his defensive production: 30 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 12 career games in the available record. That gives Gavin Barthiel'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

    Washington State

    2021-2025

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Utah State

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonWashington State0
2022 Regular SeasonWashington State00
2023 Regular SeasonUtah State419.24.44
2025 PostseasonWashington State211.73.3-2
2025 Regular SeasonWashington State211.73.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 79 Utah State

Week 1 · W 34-21 · Postseason

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

80.3 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 80.3 takeover score.

#2

@ Iowa

Week 1 · L 14-24

2

Havoc Plays

76.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Idaho State

Week 2 · W 78-28

1.5

Havoc Plays

44.7 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 44.7 takeover score.

#4

@ UConn

Week 5 · W 34-33

0.5

Havoc Plays

28.1 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 28.1 takeover score.

#5

@ New Mexico

Week 13 · W 44-41 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

22 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 22 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Utah State

4 primary output · 19.2 efficiency · 4.4 usage

44.8

#2

2025 Postseason · Washington State

23.7

2 primary · 11.7 efficiency · 3.3 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Washington State

23.7

2 primary · 11.7 efficiency · 3.3 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games