Player Dossier

2020-2022

Colorado State

Brandon Hickerson-Rooks

LB • 6'0" • 220 lbs • Harrisburg, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Hickerson-Rooks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

37%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

67

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

35

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

70

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Colorado State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Colorado State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Fresno State

Player Story

Brandon Hickerson-Rooks built his college career from 2020 through 2022 as a linebacker from Harrisburg, PA wearing No. 15, spending time with Colorado State. The clearest part of Brandon Hickerson-Rooks' career was...

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Brandon Hickerson-Rooks, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Colorado State. Brandon Hickerson-Rooks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
15
TFL
4
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Brandon Hickerson-Rooks quick answers

Latest team and position
Colorado State · LB
Career Tackles
15
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 10 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Colorado State
Top game
Fresno State
Latest roster
No. 15 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
5 tackles · LB 867th (top 70%) · Mountain West 280th (top 53%) · National 3,290th (top 57%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonColorado State491.51.511051.5
2021 Regular SeasonColorado State210.501-034.1
2022 Regular SeasonColorado State45212-060.8

Related Context

Brandon Hickerson-Rooks played LB for Colorado State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Brandon Hickerson-Rooks recorded -5 rushing yards and 15 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Colorado State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Colorado State paired 5 primary output with 17.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 21.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Fresno State

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

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2020 Regular Season · Colorado State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

1.3

Efficiency

21.9

Usage

4.9

Consistency

43.3

Best Game by takeover score

Fresno State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Fresno State: 3. Wyoming: 2. Boise State: 0. San Diego State: 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. Fresno State: 5 by 50.8. Wyoming: 0 by 20. Boise State: 4 by 16.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins2 · Games = 1 · +1 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 3 · -1 vs Wins

Game Log

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4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Fresno State

Best efficiency game

50.8 vs Fresno State

Result
Sun 12/6@ San Diego StateL 17-29
Fri 11/13@ Boise StateL 21-5241000
Fri 11/6vs WyomingSplash gameW 34-2400001
Fri 10/30@ Fresno StateSplash gameL 17-38531.501.500

Player Story

Brandon Hickerson-Rooks story

Brandon Hickerson-Rooks built his college career from 2020 through 2022 as a linebacker from Harrisburg, PA wearing No. 15, spending time with Colorado State. The clearest part of Brandon Hickerson-Rooks' career was his defensive production: 15 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 10 career games in the available record. That gives Brandon Hickerson-Rooks' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Colorado State

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonColorado State521.94.9
2021 Regular SeasonColorado State1.59.63-3.5
2022 Regular SeasonColorado State517.76.73.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Fresno State

Week 9 · L 17-38 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

83.6 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.

#2

vs Wyoming

Week 11 · L 13-14 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#3

@ Nevada

Week 6 · W 17-14 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Vanderbilt

Week 2 · L 21-24

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Havoc Plays

47.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Sacramento State

Week 4 · L 10-41

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Havoc Plays

45.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 45.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Colorado State

5 primary output · 17.7 efficiency · 6.7 usage

60.8

#2

2020 Regular Season · Colorado State

51.5

5 primary · 21.9 efficiency · 4.9 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Colorado State

34.1

1.5 primary · 9.6 efficiency · 3 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games