Player Dossier

2022-2025

Wisconsin

Sebastian Cheeks

LB • 6'3" • 230 lbs • Skokie, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Sebastian Cheeks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

46%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

62

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

41

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

80

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Wisconsin

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
North Carolina • Wisconsin
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Purdue

Player Story

Sebastian Cheeks built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Skokie, IL wearing No. 15, spending time with North Carolina and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Sebastian Cheeks' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.9406

Evanston Township · Evanston, IL

Committed To
North Carolina
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Sebastian Cheeks, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Wisconsin. Sebastian Cheeks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
40
TFL
7.5
Sacks
5
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Sebastian Cheeks quick answers

Latest team and position
Wisconsin · LB
Career Tackles
40
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 19 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Wisconsin
Top game
Purdue
Recruit profile
4-star · Evanston Township · North Carolina
High school pipeline
Evanston Township · 12 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 15 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
24 tackles · LB 546th (top 43%) · Big Ten 213th (top 28%) · National 1,811th (top 30%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina23-0--038.5
2023 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina11-0--036.4
2024 Regular SeasonWisconsin61222--026.2
2025 Regular SeasonWisconsin10245.532-051.1

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024North Carolina to WisconsinP4 to P480.5Dec 5, 2023

Sebastian Cheeks played LB for North Carolina and Wisconsin. Across 4 tracked seasons, Sebastian Cheeks recorded 40 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Wisconsin.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Wisconsin paired 10.5 primary output with 20.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 20.5 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 North Carolina, Wisconsin.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Washington

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Wisconsin

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

1.1

Efficiency

20.5

Usage

6.1

Consistency

32.5

Best Game by takeover score

Washington

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Miami (OH): 1. Middle Tennessee: 2. Maryland: 0. Michigan: 0. Iowa: 0. Ohio State: 0. Oregon: 2.5. Washington: 3. Indiana: 0. Illinois: 2

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. Miami (OH): 4 by 26.7. Middle Tennessee: 3 by 32.5. Maryland: 1 by 4.2. Michigan: 3 by 12.5. Iowa: 2 by 8.3. Ohio State: 3 by 12.5. Oregon: 3 by 37.5. Washington: 2 by 38.3. Indiana: 3 by 12.5. Illinois: 0 by 20

Split Comparison

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

Wins2 · Games = 4 · +1.6 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 6 · -1.6 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

Washington

Best efficiency game

38.3 vs Washington

Result
Sun 11/23vs IllinoisSplash gameW 27-1000000
Sat 11/15@ IndianaL 7-3130000
Sat 11/8vs WashingtonSplash gameW 13-1022210
Sat 10/25@ OregonSplash gameL 7-21321.5010
Sat 10/18vs Ohio StateL 0-3432000
Sat 10/11vs IowaL 0-3721000
Sat 10/4@ MichiganL 10-2433000
Sat 9/20vs MarylandL 10-2711000
Sat 9/6vs Middle TennesseeSplash gameW 42-1032110
Fri 8/29vs Miami (OH)W 17-044100

Player Story

Sebastian Cheeks story

Sebastian Cheeks built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Skokie, IL wearing No. 15, spending time with North Carolina and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Sebastian Cheeks' career was his defensive production: 40 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, and 5 sacks across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Sebastian Cheeks' 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

    North Carolina

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Wisconsin

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina06.31.1
2023 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina04.20.60
2024 Regular SeasonWisconsin4154.94
2025 Regular SeasonWisconsin10.520.56.16.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Purdue

Week 6 · W 52-6 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

80.8 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 13 Washington

Week 11 · W 13-10 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

3

Havoc Plays

76.7 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 76.7 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 4 Oregon

Week 9 · L 7-21 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2.5

Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 127 Middle Tennessee

Week 2 · W 42-10

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Havoc Plays

61.4 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.4 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 82 Miami (OH)

Week 1 · W 17-0

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Havoc Plays

53.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Wisconsin

10.5 primary output · 20.5 efficiency · 6.1 usage

51.1

#2

2022 Regular Season · North Carolina

38.5

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · North Carolina

36.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

5

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games