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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Florida State
AJ Cottrill
LB • 6'0" • 228 lbs • Tampa, FL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
AJ Cottrill shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
14
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
8
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
21
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Florida State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Kent State
Player Story
AJ Cottrill built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Tampa, FL wearing No. 41, spending time with Florida State. The clearest part of AJ Cottrill's career was his defensive production: 29...
Read the storyAJ Cottrill, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida State. AJ Cottrill shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.1 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 29
- TFL
- 2.5
- Sacks
- 1.5
- QB hurries
- 1
Quick Answers
AJ Cottrill quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Florida State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 29
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Florida State
- Top game
- Kent State
- Latest roster
- No. 41 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · LB 647th (top 51%) · ACC 316th (top 40%) · National 2,398th (top 39%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Florida State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Florida State | 4 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Florida State | 5 | 10 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 39.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Florida State | 7 | 15 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 1 | - | 0 | 52.3 |
Related Context
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AJ Cottrill played LB for Florida State. Across 4 tracked seasons, AJ Cottrill recorded 29 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Florida State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Florida State paired 5 primary output with 16.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 8.3 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: Charleston Southern
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2024 Regular Season · Florida State
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
8.3
Usage
1.4
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Charleston Southern
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. California: 0. Clemson: 0. Duke: 0. North Carolina: 0. Charleston Southern: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. California: 1 by 4.2. Clemson: 1 by 4.2. Duke: 2 by 8.3. North Carolina: 3 by 12.5. Charleston Southern: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Charleston Southern
Best efficiency game
12.5 vs Charleston Southern
Player Story
AJ Cottrill story
AJ Cottrill built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Tampa, FL wearing No. 41, spending time with Florida State. The clearest part of AJ Cottrill's career was his defensive production: 29 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks across 16 career games in the available record. That gives AJ Cottrill's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Florida State
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Florida State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Florida State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Florida State | 0 | 8.3 | 1.4 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Florida State | 5 | 16.1 | 4.8 | 5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 130 Kent State
Week 4 · W 66-10
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
77.5 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.
#2
vs East Texas A&M
Week 2 · W 77-3
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Havoc Plays
47 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 47 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 52 Wake Forest
Week 10 · W 42-7 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
40.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.6 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 36 Pittsburgh
Week 7 · L 31-34 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
32 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 32 takeover score.
#5
vs Charleston Southern
Week 13 · W 41-7
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Havoc Plays
10.6 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Florida State
5 primary output · 16.1 efficiency · 4.8 usage
52.3
#2
2024 Regular Season · Florida State
39.9
0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Florida State
36.9
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
Milestones
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Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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