Player Dossier

2022-2025

Florida State

Daniel Lyons

DL • 6'4" • 292 lbs • Miami, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Daniel Lyons shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.9 disruption score.

Usage Score

4.8

Efficiency

14.9

Consistency

15.2

Season Value

13.8

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason · Florida State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Florida State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Alabama

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.

Daniel Lyons, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason · Florida State. Daniel Lyons shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.9 disruption score.

Daniel Lyons played DL for Florida State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Daniel Lyons recorded 66 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Florida State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Florida State paired 0 primary output with 9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Alabama

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 Regular Season · Florida State

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

14.9

Usage

4.8

Consistency

15.2

Best Game by takeover score

Florida

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Alabama: 2. Unknown: 0.5. Kent State: 0. Virginia: 0. Miami: 1. Pittsburgh: 1. Stanford: 0. Clemson: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. NC State: 0. Florida: 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. Alabama: 2 by 28.3. Unknown: 1 by 9.2. Kent State: 1 by 4.2. Virginia: 4 by 16.7. Miami: 3 by 22.5. Pittsburgh: 1 by 14.2. Stanford: 3 by 12.5. Clemson: 1 by 4.2. Virginia Tech: 1 by 4.2. NC State: 3 by 12.5. Florida: 6 by 35

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 7 · -0.2 vs Wins
First Half0.8 · Games = 6 · +0.6 vs Second Half
Second Half0.2 · Games = 5 · -0.6 vs First Half

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Alabama

Best efficiency game

35 vs Florida

Result
Sat 11/29@ FloridaL 21-40630.500.500
Sat 11/22@ NC StateL 11-2131000
Sun 11/16vs Virginia TechW 34-1410000
Sun 11/9@ ClemsonL 10-2411000
Sun 10/19@ StanfordL 13-2033000
Sat 10/11vs PittsburghL 31-34100.500.500
Sat 10/4vs MiamiL 22-2832100
Fri 9/26@ VirginiaL 38-4640000
Sat 9/20vs Kent StateW 66-1010000
Sat 9/6vs Unknown100.5000
Sat 8/30vs AlabamaW 31-1721110

Career Arc

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

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    Florida State

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

20222023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonFlorida State05.61
2023 PostseasonFlorida State091.60
2023 Regular SeasonFlorida State091.60
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida State614.856
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida State5.514.94.8-0.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Alabama

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.7 takeover score.

#2

Memphis

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 44.4 takeover score.

#3

Florida

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 32.9 takeover score.

#4

Miami

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 27.7 takeover score.

#5

Clemson

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 27.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2023 Postseason · Florida State

0 primary output · 9 efficiency · 1.6 usage

36.9

#2

2023 Regular Season · Florida State

36.9

0 primary · 9 efficiency · 1.6 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Florida State

35.5

0 primary · 5.6 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8859

Homestead · Miami, FL

Committed To
Florida State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Career Facts

1

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

66

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 31 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.