Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2025-2025Western Kentucky
Jaden Hardy
DL • 6'3" • 324 lbs • Savannah, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Jaden Hardy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 1
- Program Path
- Western Kentucky
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Toledo
Player Story
Jaden Hardy built his college career in 2025 as a defensive lineman from Savannah, GA wearing No. 98, spending time with Western Kentucky. The clearest part of Jaden Hardy's career was his defensive production: 20...
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- Committed To
- Grambling
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
Jaden Hardy, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky. Jaden Hardy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 20
- TFL
- 2
- Sacks
- 0.5
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Jaden Hardy quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Western Kentucky · DL
- Career Tackles
- 20
- Tracked sample
- 1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 13 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky
- Top game
- Toledo
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Benedictine Military School · Grambling
- High school pipeline
- Benedictine Military School · 17 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 98 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 20 tackles · DL 354th (top 33%) · Conference USA 190th (top 35%) · National 2,037th (top 33%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Postseason | Western Kentucky | 10 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 39.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Western Kentucky | 10 | 19 | 2 | 0.5 | - | 1 | 0 | 39.5 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Unlisted to Western Kentucky | Unlisted to G5/FCS | 78.6 | May 23, 2025 |
Jaden Hardy played DL for Western Kentucky. Across 1 tracked season, Jaden Hardy recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Western Kentucky.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Western Kentucky paired 3.5 primary output with 11.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 11.8 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: Toledo
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 · Western Kentucky
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
11.8
Usage
3.9
Consistency
13.3
Best Game by takeover score
Toledo
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Southern Miss: 0. North Alabama: 0. Sam Houston: 1. Toledo: 1. Nevada: 0. Missouri State: 1. Delaware: 0. Louisiana Tech: 0.5. LSU: 0. Jacksonville 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. Southern Miss: 1 by 4.2. North Alabama: 2 by 8.3. Sam Houston: 2 by 18.3. Toledo: 6 by 35. Nevada: 1 by 4.2. Missouri State: 1 by 14.2. Delaware: 2 by 8.3. Louisiana Tech: 3 by 17.5. LSU: 1 by 4.2. Jacksonville State: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0.4 · Games = 7 · +0.0 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.0 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Toledo
Best efficiency game
35 vs Toledo
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 12/23 | @ Southern Miss | W 27-16 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/29 | @ Jacksonville State | L 34-37 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/23 | @ LSU | L 10-13 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Tue 10/21 | @ Louisiana Tech | W 28-27 | 3 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 10/3 | @ Delaware | W 27-24 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | @ Missouri State | W 27-22 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs Nevada | W 31-16 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Toledo | L 21-45 | 6 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs North Alabama | W 55-6 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/23 | vs Sam Houston | W 41-24 | 2 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Jaden Hardy story
Jaden Hardy built his college career in 2025 as a defensive lineman from Savannah, GA wearing No. 98, spending time with Western Kentucky. The clearest part of Jaden Hardy's career was his defensive production: 20 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Jaden Hardy's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Western Kentucky
2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Postseason | Western Kentucky | 3.5 | 11.8 | 3.9 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Western Kentucky | 3.5 | 11.8 | 3.9 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 48 Toledo
Week 2 · L 21-45
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
78.3 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 78.3 takeover score.
#2
@ Houston
Week 3
3
Havoc Plays
67.1 takeover
Game with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 67.1 takeover score.
#3
@ LSU
Week 2
1
Havoc Plays
59.2 takeover
Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.2 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 135 Sam Houston
Week 1 · W 41-24 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
55.5 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.5 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 108 Missouri State
Week 5 · W 27-22 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
40.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky
3.5 primary output · 11.8 efficiency · 3.9 usage
39.5
#2
2025 Regular Season · Western Kentucky
39.5
3.5 primary · 11.8 efficiency · 3.9 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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