Player Dossier

2021-2025

Wisconsin

Parker Petersen

DL • 6'4" • 315 lbs • Nashville, TN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Parker Petersen shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

14%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

16

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

30

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Tulane

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Tulane • Wisconsin
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Rice

Player Story

Parker Petersen built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Nashville, TN wearing No. 99, spending time with Tulane and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Parker Petersen's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8326

Father Ryan · Nashville, TN

Committed To
Tulane
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Parker Petersen, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Tulane. Parker Petersen shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
37
TFL
5.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Parker Petersen quick answers

Latest team and position
Wisconsin · DL
Career Tackles
37
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 21 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Tulane
Top game
Rice
Recruit profile
3-star · Father Ryan · Tulane
High school pipeline
Father Ryan · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 99 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
15 tackles · DL 494th (top 46%) · Big Ten 301st (top 39%) · National 2,467th (top 40%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonTulane00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonTulane00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonTulane11-0--037
2024 Regular SeasonTulane11214.52.52-048.7
2025 Regular SeasonWisconsin91510--010.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Tulane to WisconsinG5/FCS to P482.8Dec 15, 2024

Parker Petersen played DL for Tulane and Wisconsin. Across 5 tracked seasons, Parker Petersen recorded 37 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Tulane.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Tulane paired 9 primary output with 16.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Tulane, Wisconsin.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Maryland

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Wisconsin

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

8.1

Usage

2.4

Consistency

3.7

Best Game by takeover score

Maryland

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Miami (OH): 0. Middle Tennessee: 0. Maryland: 1. Michigan: 0. Iowa: 0. Ohio State: 0. Indiana: 0. Illinois: 0. Minnesota: 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. Miami (OH): 1 by 4.2. Middle Tennessee: 1 by 4.2. Maryland: 1 by 14.2. Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Iowa: 3 by 12.5. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2. Indiana: 3 by 12.5. Illinois: 1 by 4.2. Minnesota: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 3 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Maryland

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs Maryland

Result
Sat 11/29@ MinnesotaL 7-1722000
Sun 11/23vs IllinoisW 27-1010000
Sat 11/15@ IndianaL 7-3131000
Sat 10/18vs Ohio StateL 0-3411000
Sat 10/11vs IowaL 0-3732000
Sat 10/4@ MichiganL 10-2420000
Sat 9/20vs MarylandL 10-2711100
Sat 9/6vs Middle TennesseeW 42-1011000
Fri 8/29vs Miami (OH)W 17-010000

Player Story

Parker Petersen story

Parker Petersen built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Nashville, TN wearing No. 99, spending time with Tulane and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Parker Petersen's career was his defensive production: 37 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks across 21 career games in the available record. That gives Parker Petersen's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Tulane

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Wisconsin

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonTulane0
2022 Regular SeasonTulane00
2023 Regular SeasonTulane04.20.80
2024 Regular SeasonTulane916.15.59
2025 Regular SeasonWisconsin18.12.4-8

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Rice

Week 8 · W 24-10 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

77.8 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 77.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 75 Maryland

Week 4 · L 10-27 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

64.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.7 takeover score.

#3

vs SE Louisiana

Week 1 · W 52-0

2

Havoc Plays

60.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.

#4

vs South Florida

Week 5 · W 45-10 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

59.4 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 59.4 takeover score.

#5

vs Memphis

Week 14 · L 24-34 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

34.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Tulane

9 primary output · 16.1 efficiency · 5.5 usage

48.7

#2

2023 Regular Season · Tulane

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Wisconsin

10.7

1 primary · 8.1 efficiency · 2.4 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games