Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Northwestern
Brendan Flakes
DL • 6'4" • 291 lbs • Winter Garden, FL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Brendan Flakes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
32
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
12
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
52
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Northwestern
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Northwestern
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Purdue
Player Story
Brendan Flakes built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Winter Garden, FL wearing No. 15, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Brendan Flakes' career was his...
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- Committed To
- Northwestern
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Brendan Flakes, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Northwestern. Brendan Flakes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 44
- TFL
- 1.5
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 3
Quick Answers
Brendan Flakes quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Northwestern · DL
- Career Tackles
- 44
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 22 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Northwestern
- Top game
- Purdue
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · West Orange · Northwestern
- High school pipeline
- Lutcher · 14 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 15 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 18 tackles · DL 400th (top 38%) · Big Ten 267th (top 35%) · National 2,177th (top 36%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Postseason | Northwestern | 8 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 14 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Northwestern | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 14 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Northwestern | 7 | 11 | - | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 21.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Northwestern | 7 | 18 | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 37.6 |
Related Context
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Brendan Flakes played DL for Northwestern. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brendan Flakes recorded 44 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Northwestern.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Northwestern paired 3.5 primary output with 15.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Purdue
Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Northwestern
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
15.7
Usage
3
Consistency
9.5
Best Game by takeover score
Purdue
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Tulane: 1. Western Illinois: 0. Oregon: 0. Penn State: 0. Purdue: 2.5. Nebraska: 0. Illinois: 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. Tulane: 0 by 10. Western Illinois: 1 by 4.2. Oregon: 2 by 8.3. Penn State: 4 by 16.7. Purdue: 7 by 54.2. Nebraska: 1 by 4.2. Illinois: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.8 · Games = 3 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Purdue
Best efficiency game
54.2 vs Purdue
Player Story
Brendan Flakes story
Brendan Flakes built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Winter Garden, FL wearing No. 15, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Brendan Flakes' career was his defensive production: 44 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 3 passes defended across 22 career games in the available record. That gives Brendan Flakes' 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
Northwestern
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20222023202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Northwestern | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Postseason | Northwestern | 1 | 9.1 | 1.7 | 1 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Northwestern | 1 | 9.1 | 1.7 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Northwestern | 2 | 9.4 | 1.4 | 1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Northwestern | 3.5 | 15.7 | 3 | 1.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 90 Purdue
Week 8 · W 19-0 · Conference game
Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5
Havoc Plays
84.5 takeover
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 84.5 takeover score.
#2
vs UTEP
Week 2 · W 38-7
1
Havoc Plays
56.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.7 takeover score.
#3
vs Illinois
Week 14 · L 28-38 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
43.9 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.9 takeover score.
#4
@ Michigan
Week 13 · L 6-50 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
40 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 45 Tulane
Week 1 · L 3-23
1
Havoc Plays
16.7 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 16.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Northwestern
3.5 primary output · 15.7 efficiency · 3 usage
37.6
#2
2024 Regular Season · Northwestern
21.8
2 primary · 9.4 efficiency · 1.4 usage
#3
2023 Postseason · Northwestern
14
1 primary · 9.1 efficiency · 1.7 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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