Player Dossier

2021-2025

Vanderbilt

Kolbey Taylor

CB • 6'3" • 190 lbs • Houston, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kolbey Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.7 disruption score.

Usage Score

3

Efficiency

13.7

Consistency

13.9

Season Value

12.1

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Wyoming

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
7
Program Path
Wyoming • Vanderbilt
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

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.

Kolbey Taylor, CB. Best season Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Wyoming. Kolbey Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.7 disruption score.

Kolbey Taylor played CB for Wyoming and Vanderbilt. Across 5 tracked seasons, Kolbey Taylor recorded 77 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Wyoming.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Wyoming paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 13.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Wyoming, Vanderbilt.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

Win with 1 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 Postseason · Vanderbilt

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

13.7

Usage

3

Consistency

13.9

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Iowa: 0. Virginia Tech: 1. South Carolina: 0. Georgia State: 1. Utah State: 0. Alabama: 1. LSU: 0. Missouri: 0. Texas: 0. Auburn: 0. Kentucky: 1. Tennessee: 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. Iowa: 2 by 8.3. Virginia Tech: 3 by 22.5. South Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Georgia State: 0 by 10. Alabama: 2 by 18.3. LSU: 2 by 8.3. Missouri: 2 by 8.3. Texas: 3 by 12.5. Auburn: 3 by 12.5. Tennessee: 7 by 39.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.4 · Games = 9 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.1 vs Wins
First Half0.5 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half0.3 · Games = 6 · -0.2 vs First Half

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Tennessee

Best efficiency game

39.2 vs Tennessee

Result
Wed 12/31vs IowaL 27-3422000
Sat 11/29@ TennesseeW 45-2477001
Sat 11/22vs KentuckyW 45-171
Sat 11/8vs AuburnW 45-3832000
Sat 11/1@ TexasL 31-3433000
Sat 10/25vs MissouriW 17-1022000
Sat 10/18vs LSUW 31-2422000
Sat 10/4@ AlabamaL 14-3022100
Sat 9/27vs Utah StateW 55-35
Sat 9/20vs Georgia StateW 70-2100001
Sat 9/13@ South CarolinaW 31-711000
Sat 9/6@ Virginia TechW 44-2032001

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Wyoming

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Vanderbilt

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonWyoming0
2022 Regular SeasonWyoming08.31.60
2023 Regular SeasonWyoming520.32.55
2024 PostseasonVanderbilt111.83.1-4
2024 Regular SeasonVanderbilt111.83.10
2025 PostseasonVanderbilt513.734
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt513.730

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Tennessee

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.2 takeover score.

#2

New Mexico

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.8 takeover score.

#3

South Carolina

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 45 takeover score.

#4

Kentucky

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.7 takeover score.

#5

Virginia Tech

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2022 Regular Season · Wyoming

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.6 usage

36.6

#2

2023 Regular Season · Wyoming

21

5 primary · 20.3 efficiency · 2.5 usage

#3

2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

12.1

5 primary · 13.7 efficiency · 3 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2023 · Rating 0.825

Knoxville Catholic · Knoxville, TN

Committed To
Vanderbilt
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Career Facts

2

Career teams

7

Seasons tracked

77

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 7 tracked seasons, 30 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.