Player Dossier

2020-2022

San José State

Dion Leonard

LB • 6'3" • 215 lbs • Milpitas, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Dion Leonard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

11

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

24

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · San José State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
San José State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Hawai'i

Dion Leonard, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · San José State. Dion Leonard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
18
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Dion Leonard quick answers

Latest team and position
San José State · LB
Career Tackles
18
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · San José State
Top game
Hawai'i
Latest roster
No. 2 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
7 tackles · LB 807th (top 66%) · Mountain West 265th (top 50%) · National 3,045th (top 52%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonSan José State37-0-1034.9
2021 Regular SeasonSan José State34-0--038
2022 Regular SeasonSan José State570.50--018.9

Related Context

Dion Leonard played LB for San José State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Dion Leonard recorded 18 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with San José State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

San José State paired 0 primary output with 5.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 6.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2022 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2022 Regular Season · San José State

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

6.9

Usage

1.5

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Western Michigan

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Michigan: 0.5. Wyoming: 0. UNLV: 0. Fresno State: 0. Nevada: 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. Western Michigan: 3 by 17.5. Wyoming: 1 by 4.2. UNLV: 1 by 4.2. Fresno State: 1 by 4.2. Nevada: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.1 · Games = 4 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Western Michigan

Best efficiency game

17.5 vs Western Michigan

Result
Sun 10/30vs NevadaW 35-2811000
Sun 10/16@ Fresno StateL 10-1711000
Sat 10/8vs UNLVW 40-711000
Sat 10/1@ WyomingW 33-1611000
Sun 9/25vs Western MichiganW 34-6320.5000

Career Arc

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

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    San José State

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonSan José State113.11.9
2021 Regular SeasonSan José State05.61-1
2022 Regular SeasonSan José State0.56.91.50.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Hawai'i

Week 14 · W 35-24 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Western Michigan

Week 4 · W 34-6

0.5

Havoc Plays

32.8 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 32.8 takeover score.

#3

vs San Diego State

Week 7 · L 13-19 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Fresno State

Week 7 · L 10-17 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#5

@ Wyoming

Week 5 · W 33-16 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · San José State

0 primary output · 5.6 efficiency · 1 usage

38

#2

2020 Regular Season · San José State

34.9

1 primary · 13.1 efficiency · 1.9 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · San José State

18.9

0.5 primary · 6.9 efficiency · 1.5 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games