Usage / Role
100%
Featured defensive role
lowfeatured
Player Dossier
2022-2025Northwestern
Braydon Brus
LB • 6'1" • 230 lbs • Glendora, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Braydon Brus shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 37.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
lowelite
Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
lowhigh
Star Power
84
High-upside career profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern
2223242525
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Northwestern
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Michigan
Player Story
Braydon Brus built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Glendora, CA wearing No. 33, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Braydon Brus' career was his defensive production:...
Read the story3★
- Committed To
- Northwestern
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Braydon Brus, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern. Braydon Brus shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 37.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 97
- TFL
- 6
- Sacks
- 2.5
- QB hurries
- 4
- Passes defended
- 4
Quick Answers
Braydon Brus quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Northwestern · LB
- Career Tackles
- 97
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 24 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Northwestern
- Top game
- Michigan
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Glendora · Northwestern
- High school pipeline
- Glendora · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 33 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 81 tackles · LB 100th (top 8%) · Big Ten 23rd (top 3%) · National 135th (top 3%)
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 Regular Season | Northwestern | 3 | 4 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 8.5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Northwestern | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 8.2 |
| 2025 Postseason | Northwestern | 13 | 11 | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 74.4 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Northwestern | 13 | 70 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 74.4 |
Related Context
Keep exploring Braydon Brus
Braydon Brus played LB for Northwestern. Across 4 tracked seasons, Braydon Brus recorded 97 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Northwestern.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Northwestern paired 15 primary output with 37.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 37.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Michigan
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.
Season Explorer
Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.
2025 Postseason · Northwestern
Games
13
Havoc Plays / G
1.2
Efficiency
37.2
Usage
12.4
Consistency
60.5
Best Game by takeover score
Michigan
Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.
Active game
Hover over a point
Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.
Game-by-Game Trend
Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.
Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Central Michigan: 2. Tulane: 1. Western Illinois: 1. Oregon: 0. UCLA: 1. UL Monroe: 1. Penn State: 1. Purdue: 1. Nebraska: 0. USC: 1. Michigan: 3. Minnesota: 0. Illinois: 3
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.
Low volumeHigh quality
High volumeHigh quality
Low volumeLower quality
High volumeLower quality
Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Central Michigan: 11 by 65.8. Tulane: 6 by 35. Western Illinois: 1 by 14.2. Oregon: 5 by 20.8. UCLA: 7 by 39.2. UL Monroe: 2 by 18.3. Penn State: 3 by 22.5. Purdue: 7 by 39.2. Nebraska: 6 by 25. USC: 7 by 39.2. Michigan: 13 by 80. Minnesota: 5 by 20.8. Illinois: 8 by 63.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1 · Games = 7 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses1.3 · Games = 6 · +0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
13 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Michigan
Best efficiency game
80 vs Michigan
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12/26 | vs Central Michigan10+ tackles · Splash game | W 34-7 | 11 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sun 11/30 | @ IllinoisSplash game | L 13-20 | 8 | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Minnesota | W 38-35 | 5 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | vs Michigan10+ tackles · Splash game | L 22-24 | 13 | 8 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ USC | L 17-38 | 7 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Nebraska | L 21-28 | 6 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | vs Purdue | W 19-0 | 7 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Penn State | W 22-21 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs UL Monroe | W 42-7 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs UCLA | W 17-14 | 7 | 5 | — | 0.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Oregon | L 14-34 | 5 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 9/5 | vs Western Illinois | W 42-7 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | @ Tulane | L 3-23 | 6 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
Braydon Brus story
Braydon Brus built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Glendora, CA wearing No. 33, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Braydon Brus' career was his defensive production: 97 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 24 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Northwestern. 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 Braydon Brus' production has multiple signals. With 24 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Northwestern.
The arc is straightforward: Braydon Brus 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
Northwestern
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20222023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Northwestern | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Northwestern | 0.5 | 7.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Northwestern | 1 | 7.5 | 1.7 | 0.5 |
| 2025 Postseason | Northwestern | 15 | 37.2 | 12.4 | 14 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Northwestern | 15 | 37.2 | 12.4 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 25 Michigan
Week 12 · L 22-24 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
93.3 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 93.3 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 24 Illinois
Week 14 · L 13-20 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
3
Havoc Plays
87.8 takeover
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 87.8 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 100 Central Michigan
Week 1 · W 34-7 · Postseason
2
Havoc Plays
77.5 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 16 USC
Week 11 · L 17-38 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
1
Havoc Plays
57.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 98 UCLA
Week 5 · W 17-14 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
57.5 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Northwestern
15 primary output · 37.2 efficiency · 12.4 usage
74.4
#2
2025 Regular Season · Northwestern
74.4
15 primary · 37.2 efficiency · 12.4 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Northwestern
8.5
0.5 primary · 7.2 efficiency · 1.5 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
3
Splash games
2
10+ tackle games
Next best actions
Keep exploring Braydon Brus
Move from the player story into the game log, career arc, team context, and video shelf.