Usage / Role
4%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Purdue
Drake Carlson
DL • 6'3" • 302 lbs • Nashville, TN, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Drake Carlson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.
Impact Production
24
Developing production for a defensive lineman
lowelite
Reliability
9
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
29
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Purdue
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Penn State
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- Committed To
- Purdue
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Drake Carlson, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue. Drake Carlson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 4
- TFL
- 0.5
Quick Answers
Drake Carlson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Purdue · DL
- Career Tackles
- 4
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 2 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Purdue
- Top game
- Penn State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Father Ryan · Purdue
- High school pipeline
- Father Ryan · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 98 · Sophomore
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Purdue | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 2 | 4 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 34.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
Related Context
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Drake Carlson played DL for Purdue. Across 3 tracked seasons, Drake Carlson recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Purdue.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Purdue paired 0.5 primary output with 10.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Penn State
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Explorer
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2024 Regular Season · Purdue
Games
2
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
10.8
Usage
3.5
Consistency
50
Best Game by takeover score
Penn State
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Wisconsin: 0. Penn State: 0.5
Volume vs Efficiency
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Split Comparison
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First Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
2 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Penn State
Best efficiency game
13.3 vs Penn State
Career Arc
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- 1
Purdue
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Purdue | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 0.5 | 10.8 | 3.5 | 0.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 0 | — | — | -0.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Penn State
Week 12 · L 10-49 · Conference game
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5
Havoc Plays
35.5 takeover
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 35.5 takeover score.
#2
@ Wisconsin
Week 6 · L 6-52 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
7.5 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.5 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Purdue
0.5 primary output · 10.8 efficiency · 3.5 usage
34.9
#2
2023 Regular Season · Purdue
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Purdue
—
0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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