Player Dossier

2025-2025

Western 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.

Usage Score

7.3

Efficiency

11.8

Consistency

13.3

Season Value

12.5

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
2
Program Path
Western Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

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.

Jaden Hardy, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky. Jaden Hardy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.8 disruption score.

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.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

11.8

Usage

7.3

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Southern Miss

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Southern Miss: 0. Unknown: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Southern Miss: 1 by 4.2. Unknown: 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

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

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

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 MissW 27-1611000
Sat 11/29@ Jacksonville StateL 34-3711000
Sun 11/23@ LSUL 10-1310000
Tue 10/21@ Louisiana TechW 28-27300.5000
Fri 10/3@ DelawareW 27-2421000
Sat 9/27@ Missouri StateW 27-2210001
Sat 9/20vs NevadaW 31-1611000
Sat 9/6@ ToledoL 21-4564100
Sat 8/30vs Unknown20000
Sat 8/23vs Sam HoustonW 41-24210.500.500

Career Arc

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

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    Western Kentucky

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonWestern Kentucky3.511.87.3
2025 Regular SeasonWestern Kentucky3.511.87.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Toledo

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

#2

Houston

2

Primary metric

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 62.1 takeover score.

#3

LSU

1

Primary metric

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.2 takeover score.

#4

Sam Houston

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.6 takeover score.

#5

Missouri State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 38.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky

3.5 primary output · 11.8 efficiency · 7.3 usage

12.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · Western Kentucky

12.5

3.5 primary · 11.8 efficiency · 7.3 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8652

Benedictine Military School · Savannah, GA

Committed To
Grambling
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Career Facts

1

Career teams

2

Seasons tracked

20

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 2 tracked seasons, 13 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.