Player Dossier

2022-2025

North Carolina

Will Hardy

DB • 6'2" • 205 lbs • Lawrenceville, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Will Hardy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.3 disruption score.

Usage Score

5.6

Efficiency

23.3

Consistency

10

Season Value

10.7

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · North Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
6
Program Path
North Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCF

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.

Will Hardy, DB. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · North Carolina. Will Hardy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.3 disruption score.

Will Hardy played DB for North Carolina. Across 4 tracked seasons, Will Hardy recorded 138 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with North Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

North Carolina paired 2 primary output with 23.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 23.3 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: UCF

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 Regular Season · North Carolina

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

23.3

Usage

5.6

Consistency

10

Best Game by takeover score

NC State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. TCU: 0. Charlotte: 0. Unknown: 0. UCF: 1. California: 0.5. Virginia: 0. Stanford: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Duke: 0. NC State: 0.5

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. TCU: 3 by 12.5. Charlotte: 3 by 12.5. Unknown: 1 by 4.2. UCF: 8 by 43.3. California: 7 by 34.2. Virginia: 5 by 20.8. Stanford: 6 by 25. Wake Forest: 6 by 25. Duke: 8 by 33.3. NC State: 4 by 21.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 7 · +0.3 vs Wins
First Half0.3 · Games = 5 · +0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half0.1 · Games = 5 · -0.2 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

UCF

Best efficiency game

43.3 vs UCF

Result
Sun 11/30@ NC StateL 19-42410.5000
Sat 11/22vs DukeL 25-3281000
Sat 11/15@ Wake ForestL 12-2863000
Sat 11/8vs StanfordW 20-1562000
Sat 10/25vs VirginiaL 16-1753000
Sat 10/18@ CaliforniaL 18-21730.5000
Sat 9/20@ UCFL 9-3487100
Sat 9/13vs Unknown10000
Sat 9/6@ CharlotteW 20-332000
Tue 9/2vs TCUL 14-4831000

Career Arc

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    North Carolina

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

202220232023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina115.54.1
2023 PostseasonNorth Carolina210.22.21
2023 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina210.22.20
2024 PostseasonNorth Carolina316.83.91
2024 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina316.83.90
2025 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina223.35.6-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

UCF

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.5 takeover score.

#2

Clemson

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.4 takeover score.

#3

Pittsburgh

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 45 takeover score.

#4

Duke

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.1 takeover score.

#5

Florida State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2025 Regular Season · North Carolina

2 primary output · 23.3 efficiency · 5.6 usage

10.7

#2

2024 Postseason · North Carolina

9.1

3 primary · 16.8 efficiency · 3.9 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · North Carolina

9.1

3 primary · 16.8 efficiency · 3.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2026 · Rating 0.835

Roman Catholic · Philadelphia, PA

Committed To
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2026

Career Facts

1

Career teams

6

Seasons tracked

138

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 6 tracked seasons, 40 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.