Player Dossier

2020-2025

Tennessee

William Wright

DB • 6'0" • 198 lbs • Nashville, TN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

William Wright shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

58%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

72

High-end production for a defensive back

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

61

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Tennessee

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Tennessee
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UT Martin

Player Story

William Wright built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive back from Nashville, TN, spending time with Tennessee. The clearest part of William Wright's career was his defensive production: 26...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.9943

Huntington · Huntington, WV

Committed To
Tennessee
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

William Wright, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Tennessee. William Wright shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
26
Passes defended
1
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

William Wright quick answers

Latest team and position
Tennessee · DB
Career Tackles
26
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 17 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Tennessee
Top game
UT Martin
Recruit profile
5-star · Huntington · Tennessee
High school pipeline
Huntington · 9 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 0 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
14 tackles · DB 525th (top 54%) · SEC 305th (top 41%) · National 2,558th (top 42%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonTennessee00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonTennessee11-0--037
2022 Regular SeasonTennessee58-0--020.3
2023 Regular SeasonTennessee22-0--036.5
2024 PostseasonTennessee21-0--035.1
2024 Regular SeasonTennessee20-0--035.1
2025 PostseasonTennessee76-0-1034.3
2025 Regular SeasonTennessee78-0--234.3

Related Context

William Wright played DB for Tennessee. Across 6 tracked seasons, William Wright recorded 26 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Tennessee.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Tennessee paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 11.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Illinois

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Tennessee

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

11.2

Usage

2

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

Illinois

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Illinois: 1. Georgia: 0. Mississippi State: 0. Arkansas: 0. Alabama: 0. Kentucky: 0. New Mexico State: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Illinois: 6 by 35. Georgia: 1 by 4.2. Mississippi State: 1 by 4.2. Arkansas: 1 by 4.2. Alabama: 1 by 4.2. Kentucky: 2 by 8.3. New Mexico State: 2 by 18.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Illinois

Best efficiency game

35 vs Illinois

Result
Tue 12/30@ IllinoisL 28-3064001
Sat 11/15vs New Mexico StateW 42-9220010
Sat 10/25@ KentuckyW 56-3421000
Sat 10/18@ AlabamaL 20-3711000
Sat 10/11vs ArkansasW 34-3111000
Sat 9/27@ Mississippi StateW 41-3410000
Sat 9/13vs GeorgiaL 41-4410000

Player Story

William Wright story

William Wright built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive back from Nashville, TN, spending time with Tennessee. The clearest part of William Wright's career was his defensive production: 26 tackles, 2 interceptions, and 1 pass defended across 17 career games in the available record. His career also includes 26 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives William Wright's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Tennessee

    2020-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20202021202220232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonTennessee0
2021 Regular SeasonTennessee04.20.80
2022 Regular SeasonTennessee18.71.91
2023 Regular SeasonTennessee04.20.6-1
2024 PostseasonTennessee02.10.40
2024 Regular SeasonTennessee02.10.40
2025 PostseasonTennessee211.222
2025 Regular SeasonTennessee211.220

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs UT Martin

Week 8 · W 65-24

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

58.1 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.1 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 24 Illinois

Week 1 · L 28-30 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

56.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.1 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 123 New Mexico State

Week 12 · W 42-9

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Havoc Plays

55.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.3 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 66 Kentucky

Week 9 · W 56-34 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Alabama

Week 7 · W 52-49 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Tennessee

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

37

#2

2023 Regular Season · Tennessee

36.5

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Tennessee

35.1

0 primary · 2.1 efficiency · 0.4 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games