Player Dossier

2021-2025

Ball State

Zavier Simpson

LB • 6'1" • 217 lbs • Indianapolis, IN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Zavier Simpson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Wake Forest • Ball State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Toledo
2★

Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.7863

Pike · Indianapolis, IN

Committed To
Wake Forest
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Zavier Simpson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State. Zavier Simpson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
3

Quick Answers

Zavier Simpson quick answers

Latest team and position
Ball State · LB
Career Tackles
3
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 3 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Ball State
Top game
Toledo
Recruit profile
2-star · Pike · Wake Forest
High school pipeline
Pike · 19 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 39 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
3 tackles · LB 1,072nd (top 85%) · Mid-American 414th (top 72%) · National 4,328th (top 70%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonWake Forest00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonWake Forest00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonBall State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonBall State00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonBall State33-0--037

Related Context

Zavier Simpson played LB for Wake Forest and Ball State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Zavier Simpson recorded 3 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Ball State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Ball State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Wake Forest, Ball State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Ball State

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Toledo

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Michigan: 0. Toledo: 0. Miami (OH): 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: 1 by 4.2. Toledo: 1 by 4.2. Miami (OH): 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Toledo

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Miami (OH)

Result
Sat 11/29@ Miami (OH)L 24-4510000
Sat 11/22@ ToledoL 9-3811000
Sat 10/11@ Western MichiganL 0-4211000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Wake Forest

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Ball State

    2023-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonWake Forest0
2022 Regular SeasonWake Forest00
2023 Regular SeasonBall State00
2024 Regular SeasonBall State00
2025 Regular SeasonBall State04.20.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 48 Toledo

Week 13 · L 9-38 · Conference game

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 82 Miami (OH)

Week 14 · L 24-45 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 78 Western Michigan

Week 7 · L 0-42 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Ball State

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

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#2

2021 Regular Season · Wake Forest

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Wake Forest

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games