Usage / Role
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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Missouri
Josiah Trotter
LB • 6'2" • 237 lbs • Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Josiah Trotter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 48 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
83
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
93
Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Missouri
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- West Virginia • Missouri
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Auburn
Player Story
Josiah Trotter built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Philadelphia, PA wearing No. 40, spending time with Missouri and West Virginia. The clearest part of Josiah Trotter's career was his...
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- Committed To
- West Virginia
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2026
- Selection
- Round 2 · Pick 14
- Overall
- No. 46
- NFL Team
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Josiah Trotter, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Missouri. Josiah Trotter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 48 disruption score.
Quick Answers
Josiah Trotter quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Missouri · LB
- Career Tackles
- 177
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 24 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Missouri
- Top game
- Auburn
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · St. Joseph's Prep · West Virginia
- High school pipeline
- St. Joseph's Prep · 16 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2026 · Round 2 · Pick 14 · Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Latest roster
- No. 40 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 84 tackles · LB 89th (top 7%) · SEC 6th (top 1%) · National 119th (top 2%)
Josiah Trotter played LB for West Virginia and Missouri. Across 3 tracked seasons, Josiah Trotter recorded 177 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with West Virginia.
Recognition
Honors
- 20252025 Coaches All-SEC · conference_coachesfirst
- 20242024 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionhonorable mention
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