Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Indiana
Ryland Gandy
DB • 6'0" • 180 lbs • Buford, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Ryland Gandy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8 disruption score.
Impact Production
17
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
12
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
31
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Pittsburgh
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Pittsburgh • Indiana
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Iowa
Player Story
Ryland Gandy built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Buford, GA wearing No. 10, spending time with Indiana and Pittsburgh. The clearest part of Ryland Gandy's career was his defensive...
Read the storyRyland Gandy, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Pittsburgh. Ryland Gandy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 58
- TFL
- 1.5
- QB hurries
- 1
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Ryland Gandy quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Indiana · DB
- Career Tackles
- 58
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 26 games
- Best season
- 2023 Regular Season · Pittsburgh
- Top game
- Iowa
- High school pipeline
- Rome · 22 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 10 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 11 tackles · DB 565th (top 58%) · Big Ten 354th (top 46%) · National 2,859th (top 47%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Pittsburgh | 6 | 7 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.6 |
| 2024 Postseason | Pittsburgh | 13 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 35.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Pittsburgh | 13 | 38 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 35.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Indiana | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 17.2 |
Related Context
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Ryland Gandy played DB for Pittsburgh and Indiana. Across 4 tracked seasons, Ryland Gandy recorded 58 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Pittsburgh.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season
Pittsburgh paired 0 primary output with 4.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 8 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Pittsburgh, Indiana.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Iowa
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Indiana
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
0.1
Efficiency
8
Usage
1.9
Consistency
4.8
Best Game by takeover score
Iowa
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Kennesaw State: 0. Indiana State: 0. Illinois: 0. Iowa: 1. UCLA: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Purdue: 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. Kennesaw State: 1 by 4.2. Indiana State: 1 by 4.2. Illinois: 1 by 4.2. Iowa: 3 by 22.5. UCLA: 2 by 8.3. Wisconsin: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 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 Half0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Iowa
Best efficiency game
22.5 vs Iowa
Player Story
Ryland Gandy story
Ryland Gandy built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Buford, GA wearing No. 10, spending time with Indiana and Pittsburgh. The clearest part of Ryland Gandy's career was his defensive production: 58 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 1 pass defended across 26 career games in the available record. That gives Ryland Gandy'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
Pittsburgh
2022-2024
Opening stop
- 2
Indiana
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20222023202420242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Pittsburgh | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Pittsburgh | 0 | 4.9 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2024 Postseason | Pittsburgh | 2.5 | 14.7 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Pittsburgh | 2.5 | 14.7 | 2.5 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Indiana | 1 | 8 | 1.9 | -1.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 12 Iowa
Week 5 · W 20-15 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
59.7 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.7 takeover score.
#2
@ Cincinnati
Week 2 · W 28-27
1
Havoc Plays
55.8 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.8 takeover score.
#3
@ SMU
Week 10 · L 25-48 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
44.7 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 44.7 takeover score.
#4
vs Syracuse
Week 9 · W 41-13 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
39.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 39.7 takeover score.
#5
@ Louisville
Week 13 · L 9-37 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
15.5 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.5 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2023 Regular Season · Pittsburgh
0 primary output · 4.9 efficiency · 0.9 usage
37.6
#2
2024 Postseason · Pittsburgh
35.9
2.5 primary · 14.7 efficiency · 2.5 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Pittsburgh
35.9
2.5 primary · 14.7 efficiency · 2.5 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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