Player Dossier

2022-2025

UCLA

Jalen Woods

LB • 6'1" • 225 lbs • Compton, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jalen Woods shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

59%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

57

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

52

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

66

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
UCLA
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Nebraska

Player Story

Jalen Woods built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Compton, CA wearing No. 9, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Jalen Woods' career was his defensive production: 86 tackles,...

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Jalen Woods, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCLA. Jalen Woods shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
86
TFL
9.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
3
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Jalen Woods quick answers

Latest team and position
UCLA · LB
Career Tackles
86
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 29 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · UCLA
Top game
Nebraska
High school pipeline
Hewitt-Trussville · 36 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 9 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
47 tackles · LB 307th (top 25%) · Big Ten 90th (top 12%) · National 696th (top 12%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonUCLA2610--027.7
2023 Regular SeasonUCLA71120--015.2
2024 Regular SeasonUCLA8222131043.7
2025 Regular SeasonUCLA12474.51.5-3051.5

Related Context

Jalen Woods played LB for UCLA. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jalen Woods recorded 86 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UCLA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

UCLA paired 9 primary output with 23.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 23.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Washington

Loss 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 · UCLA

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

23.8

Usage

8.2

Consistency

13.9

Best Game by takeover score

Washington

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah: 0. UNLV: 0. New Mexico: 0. Northwestern: 2. Penn State: 0. Michigan State: 1. Maryland: 0. Indiana: 2. Nebraska: 0. Ohio State: 2. Washington: 2. USC: 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. Utah: 6 by 25. UNLV: 1 by 4.2. New Mexico: 4 by 16.7. Northwestern: 3 by 32.5. Penn State: 8 by 33.3. Michigan State: 4 by 26.7. Maryland: 3 by 12.5. Indiana: 3 by 32.5. Nebraska: 6 by 25. Ohio State: 3 by 32.5. Washington: 3 by 32.5. USC: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 9 · +0.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Washington

Best efficiency game

33.3 vs Penn State

Result
Sun 11/30@ USCL 10-2933000
Sun 11/23vs WashingtonSplash gameL 14-4833200
Sun 11/16@ Ohio StateSplash gameL 10-4832110
Sun 11/9vs NebraskaL 21-2860000
Sat 10/25@ IndianaSplash gameL 6-5632101
Sat 10/18vs MarylandW 20-1733000
Sat 10/11@ Michigan StateW 38-1341001
Sat 10/4vs Penn StateW 42-3786000
Sat 9/27@ NorthwesternSplash gameL 14-17320.500.501
Sat 9/13vs New MexicoL 10-3543000
Sun 9/7@ UNLVL 23-3010000
Sun 8/31vs UtahL 10-4363000

Player Story

Jalen Woods story

Jalen Woods built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Compton, CA wearing No. 9, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Jalen Woods' career was his defensive production: 86 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 29 career games in the available record. That gives Jalen Woods' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    UCLA

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonUCLA117.53.9
2023 Regular SeasonUCLA29.42.41
2024 Regular SeasonUCLA720.24.95
2025 Regular SeasonUCLA923.88.22

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Nebraska

Week 10 · W 27-20 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

81.1 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 81.1 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 13 Washington

Week 13 · L 14-48 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

77.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 2 Ohio State

Week 12 · L 10-48 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

77.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 1 Indiana

Week 9 · L 6-56 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

77.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.

#5

vs USC

Week 13 · L 13-19 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

70.6 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · UCLA

9 primary output · 23.8 efficiency · 8.2 usage

51.5

#2

2024 Regular Season · UCLA

43.7

7 primary · 20.2 efficiency · 4.9 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · UCLA

27.7

1 primary · 17.5 efficiency · 3.9 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

6

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games