Player Dossier

2022-2025

Georgia Tech

Melvin Jordan IV

LB • 5'11" • 230 lbs • St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Melvin Jordan IV shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.6 disruption score.

Usage Score

2.4

Efficiency

13.6

Consistency

9.5

Season Value

7.4

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason · Oregon State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Oregon State • Georgia Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Nevada

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Melvin Jordan IV, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason · Oregon State. Melvin Jordan IV shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.6 disruption score.

Melvin Jordan IV played LB for Oregon State and Georgia Tech. Across 4 tracked seasons, Melvin Jordan IV recorded 84 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Oregon State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Oregon State paired 5 primary output with 19.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 13.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Oregon State, Georgia Tech.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Unknown

Game with 1 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 · Georgia Tech

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

13.6

Usage

2.4

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

Syracuse

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Colorado: 0. Unknown: 1. Clemson: 0. Temple: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Duke: 1. Syracuse: 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. Colorado: 2 by 8.3. Unknown: 5 by 30.8. Clemson: 1 by 4.2. Temple: 6 by 25. Wake Forest: 1 by 4.2. Duke: 1 by 14.2. Syracuse: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.2 · Games = 6
First Half0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.1 vs Second Half
Second Half0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.1 vs First Half
All Games0.3 · Games = 7

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Unknown

Best efficiency game

30.8 vs Unknown

Result
Sat 10/25vs SyracuseW 41-1620000
Sat 10/18@ DukeW 27-1810001
Sat 9/27@ Wake ForestW 30-2910000
Sat 9/20vs TempleW 45-2461000
Sat 9/13vs ClemsonW 24-2110000
Sat 9/6vs Unknown520.500.500
Sat 8/30@ ColoradoW 27-2022000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Oregon State

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Georgia Tech

    2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

20222023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonOregon State0
2023 PostseasonOregon State519.66.55
2023 Regular SeasonOregon State519.66.50
2024 Regular SeasonOregon State3.522.36.7-1.5
2025 Regular SeasonGeorgia Tech213.62.4-1.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Nevada

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.4 takeover score.

#2

Notre Dame

3

Primary metric

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 56 takeover score.

#3

Colorado State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.9 takeover score.

#4

Unknown

1

Primary metric

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 45.5 takeover score.

#5

San José State

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 38.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2023 Postseason · Oregon State

5 primary output · 19.6 efficiency · 6.5 usage

12.8

#2

2023 Regular Season · Oregon State

12.8

5 primary · 19.6 efficiency · 6.5 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Oregon State

12.5

3.5 primary · 22.3 efficiency · 6.7 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8856

Calvary Christian · St. Petersburg, FL

Committed To
Oregon State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Career Facts

2

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

84

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 24 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.