Player Dossier

2023-2025

Texas

Lavon Johnson

DL • 6'2" • 311 lbs • Allentown, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Lavon Johnson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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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: 2023 Regular Season · Maryland

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Maryland • Texas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers

Player Story

Lavon Johnson built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Allentown, PA wearing No. 96, spending time with Maryland and Texas. The clearest part of Lavon Johnson's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8525

Cheshire Academy · Cheshire, CT

Committed To
Maryland
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Lavon Johnson, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Maryland. Lavon Johnson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
24
TFL
2.5
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

Lavon Johnson quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas · DL
Career Tackles
24
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 12 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Maryland
Top game
Rutgers
Recruit profile
3-star · Cheshire Academy · Maryland
High school pipeline
Cheshire Academy · 26 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 96 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
5 tackles · DL 791st (top 74%) · SEC 442nd (top 59%) · National 3,677th (top 60%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonMaryland3511--041
2024 Regular SeasonMaryland6140.50--015.6
2025 PostseasonTexas31-0--023
2025 Regular SeasonTexas3410--023

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Texas to MarylandP4 to P482.8Jan 11, 2026
2025Maryland to TexasP4 to P483.5Apr 18, 2025

Lavon Johnson played DL for Maryland and Texas. Across 3 tracked seasons, Lavon Johnson recorded 24 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Maryland.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Maryland paired 2 primary output with 13.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 10.3 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 Maryland, Texas.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Sam Houston

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Texas

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

10.3

Usage

2.5

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Sam Houston

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Michigan: 0. Sam Houston: 1. Kentucky: 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. Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Sam Houston: 2 by 18.3. Kentucky: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 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

Sam Houston

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Sam Houston

Result
Wed 12/31vs MichiganW 41-2711000
Sat 10/18@ KentuckyW 16-1321000
Sun 9/21vs Sam HoustonW 55-021100

Player Story

Lavon Johnson story

Lavon Johnson built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Allentown, PA wearing No. 96, spending time with Maryland and Texas. The clearest part of Lavon Johnson's career was his defensive production: 24 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 12 career games in the available record. That gives Lavon Johnson's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Maryland

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Texas

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonMaryland213.64.7
2024 Regular SeasonMaryland0.510.62.5-1.5
2025 PostseasonTexas110.32.50.5
2025 Regular SeasonTexas110.32.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Rutgers

Week 13 · W 42-24 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

75.8 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 135 Sam Houston

Week 4 · W 55-0

1

Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

#3

vs UConn

Week 1 · W 50-7

0.5

Havoc Plays

36.4 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 36.4 takeover score.

#4

vs Iowa

Week 13 · L 13-29 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

19.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 19.2 takeover score.

#5

@ Penn State

Week 14 · L 7-44 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Maryland

2 primary output · 13.6 efficiency · 4.7 usage

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#2

2025 Postseason · Texas

23

1 primary · 10.3 efficiency · 2.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Texas

23

1 primary · 10.3 efficiency · 2.5 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games