Player Dossier

2022-2025

Delaware

Blake Matthews

LB • 6'2" • 215 lbs • Bremen, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Blake Matthews shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 27.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

45%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

51

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

70

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

42

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Delaware

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Troy • Delaware
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Player Story

Blake Matthews built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Bremen, GA wearing No. 10, spending time with Delaware and Troy. The clearest part of Blake Matthews' career was his defensive...

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Blake Matthews, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Delaware. Blake Matthews shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 27.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
59
TFL
3.5
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Blake Matthews quick answers

Latest team and position
Delaware · LB
Career Tackles
59
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 18 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Delaware
Top game
Middle Tennessee
High school pipeline
Bremen · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
54 tackles · LB 247th (top 20%) · Conference USA 47th (top 9%) · National 503rd (top 9%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonTroy11-0--036.7
2023 Regular SeasonTroy54-0--036.2
2025 PostseasonDelaware123-0-1052.7
2025 Regular SeasonDelaware12513.5042052.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Troy to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted19.6Dec 7, 2023

Blake Matthews played LB for Troy and Delaware. Across 3 tracked seasons, Blake Matthews recorded 59 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Delaware.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Delaware paired 10.5 primary output with 27.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 27.5 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 Troy, Delaware.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Postseason · Delaware

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.9

Efficiency

27.5

Usage

6.1

Consistency

32.9

Best Game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Louisiana: 1. Delaware State: 0.5. UConn: 0. Florida International: 0. Western Kentucky: 2.5. Jacksonville State: 2. Middle Tennessee: 3. Liberty: 0. Louisiana Tech: 1. Sam Houston: 0. Wake Forest: 0. UTEP: 0.5

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. Louisiana: 3 by 22.5. Delaware State: 3 by 17.5. UConn: 3 by 12.5. Florida International: 1 by 4.2. Western Kentucky: 9 by 62.5. Jacksonville State: 5 by 40.8. Middle Tennessee: 8 by 63.3. Liberty: 2 by 8.3. Louisiana Tech: 4 by 26.7. Sam Houston: 5 by 20.8. Wake Forest: 4 by 16.7. UTEP: 7 by 34.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.9 · Games = 7 · -0.0 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 5 · +0.0 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

Best efficiency game

63.3 vs Middle Tennessee

Result
Thu 12/18vs LouisianaW 20-1331001
Sat 11/29vs UTEPW 61-31710.5000
Sat 11/22@ Wake ForestL 14-5241000
Sun 11/16@ Sam HoustonL 23-2654000
Sat 11/8vs Louisiana TechW 25-2440000
Sat 11/1@ LibertyL 30-5921000
Wed 10/22vs Middle TennesseeSplash gameW 31-2881002
Wed 10/15@ Jacksonville StateSplash gameL 25-3852100
Fri 10/3vs Western KentuckySplash gameL 24-27931.5000
Sat 9/20@ Florida InternationalW 38-1611000
Sat 9/13vs UConnW 44-4131000
Thu 8/28vs Delaware StateW 35-17310.5000

Player Story

Blake Matthews story

Blake Matthews built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Bremen, GA wearing No. 10, spending time with Delaware and Troy. The clearest part of Blake Matthews' career was his defensive production: 59 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 3 passes defended across 18 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Delaware. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Blake Matthews' production has multiple signals. With 18 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Delaware and Troy.

The arc is straightforward: Blake Matthews moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Troy

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Delaware

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonTroy04.20.7
2023 Regular SeasonTroy03.40.60
2025 PostseasonDelaware10.527.56.110.5
2025 Regular SeasonDelaware10.527.56.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 127 Middle Tennessee

Week 9 · W 31-28 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

82.5 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.5 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 69 Western Kentucky

Week 6 · L 24-27 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

81.9 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 81.9 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 92 Jacksonville State

Week 8 · L 25-38 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

66.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 66.1 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 77 Louisiana Tech

Week 11 · W 25-24 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

37.8 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 37.8 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 129 UTEP

Week 14 · W 61-31 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

30.9 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Delaware

10.5 primary output · 27.5 efficiency · 6.1 usage

52.7

#2

2025 Regular Season · Delaware

52.7

10.5 primary · 27.5 efficiency · 6.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Troy

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games