Player Dossier

2023-2025

Oregon

Daylen Austin

DB • 6'1" • 199 lbs • Long Beach, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Daylen Austin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

18%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

34

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

34

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

50

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Oregon

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Oregon
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

Player Story

Daylen Austin built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Long Beach, CA, spending time with Oregon. The clearest part of Daylen Austin's career was his defensive production: 23 tackles,...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9445

Long Beach Poly · Long Beach, CA

Committed To
Oregon
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Daylen Austin, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Oregon. Daylen Austin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
23
TFL
2.5
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Daylen Austin quick answers

Latest team and position
Oregon · DB
Career Tackles
23
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 16 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Oregon
Top game
Oklahoma State
Recruit profile
4-star · Long Beach Poly · Oregon
High school pipeline
Long Beach Poly · 81 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 0 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DB 571st (top 59%) · Big Ten 360th (top 46%) · National 2,905th (top 47%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonOregon23-0-1021.8
2024 Regular SeasonOregon5101.50--017.2
2025 Regular SeasonOregon9101013047.8

Related Context

Daylen Austin played DB for Oregon. Across 3 tracked seasons, Daylen Austin recorded 23 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oregon.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Oregon paired 6 primary output with 12.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.4 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: Oklahoma State

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Oregon

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

12.4

Usage

3.2

Consistency

51.9

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Montana State: 1. Oklahoma State: 2. Northwestern: 0. Oregon State: 0. Penn State: 1. Wisconsin: 1. Minnesota: 1. USC: 0. Washington: 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. Montana State: 1 by 14.2. Oklahoma State: 1 by 24.2. Northwestern: 2 by 8.3. Oregon State: 1 by 4.2. Penn State: 1 by 14.2. Minnesota: 1 by 14.2. USC: 1 by 4.2. Washington: 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 Half0.8 · Games = 5 · +0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 4 · -0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

24.2 vs Oklahoma State

Result
Sat 11/29@ WashingtonW 26-1421000
Sat 11/22vs USCW 42-2710000
Sat 11/15vs MinnesotaW 42-1311000
Sat 10/25vs WisconsinW 21-71
Sat 9/27@ Penn StateW 30-2410001
Sat 9/20vs Oregon StateW 41-710000
Sat 9/13@ NorthwesternW 34-1421000
Sat 9/6vs Oklahoma StateSplash gameW 69-311101
Sat 8/30vs Montana StateW 59-1311001

Player Story

Daylen Austin story

Daylen Austin built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Long Beach, CA, spending time with Oregon. The clearest part of Daylen Austin's career was his defensive production: 23 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 1 interception, and 4 passes defended across 16 career games in the available record. His career also includes 2 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Daylen Austin's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Oregon

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonOregon111.31.1
2024 Regular SeasonOregon1.511.32.30.5
2025 Regular SeasonOregon612.43.24.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 121 Oklahoma State

Week 2 · W 69-3

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

60.6 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.

#2

vs Washington

Week 14 · W 49-21 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

51.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 85 Wisconsin

Week 9 · W 21-7 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

51.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Portland State

Week 1 · W 81-7

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 70 Minnesota

Week 12 · W 42-13 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

36.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Oregon

6 primary output · 12.4 efficiency · 3.2 usage

47.8

#2

2023 Regular Season · Oregon

21.8

1 primary · 11.3 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Oregon

17.2

1.5 primary · 11.3 efficiency · 2.3 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games