Usage Score
4.6
Player Dossier
2022-2025BYU
Max Alford
LB • 6'1" • 230 lbs • Park City, UT, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Max Alford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.8 disruption score.
Efficiency
16.8
Consistency
14.3
Season Value
11.3
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Utah State
22232425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Seasons Tracked
- 4
- Program Path
- Utah State • BYU
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico
Scouting Read
Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.
Max Alford, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Utah State. Max Alford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.8 disruption score.
Max Alford played LB for Utah State and BYU. Across 4 tracked seasons, Max Alford recorded 54 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Utah State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Utah State paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 16.8 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 Utah State, BYU.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Utah
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Regular Season · BYU
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
16.8
Usage
4.6
Consistency
14.3
Best Game by takeover score
TCU
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Unknown: 0.5. Colorado: 0. West Virginia: 0. Utah: 2. Iowa State: 0.5. Texas Tech: 0. TCU: 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. Unknown: 1 by 9.2. Colorado: 1 by 4.2. West Virginia: 4 by 16.7. Utah: 2 by 28.3. Iowa State: 6 by 30. Texas Tech: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 6 by 25
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.5 · Games = 5
First Half0.6 · Games = 4 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0.2 · Games = 3 · -0.5 vs First Half
All Games0.4 · Games = 7
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Utah
Best efficiency game
30 vs Iowa State
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Utah State
2022-2024
Opening stop
- 2
BYU
2025
Final stop
Season Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Utah State | 2 | 14.9 | 3.4 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Utah State | 0 | — | — | -2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Utah State | 0 | 8.3 | 1.6 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | BYU | 3 | 16.8 | 4.6 | 3 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
New Mexico
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5
Primary metric
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 53.9 takeover score.
#2
Utah
2
Primary metric
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.3 takeover score.
#3
San José State
0.5
Primary metric
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 25.2 takeover score.
#4
Iowa State
0.5
Primary metric
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 20.8 takeover score.
#5
Unknown
0.5
Primary metric
Game with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 12.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by value score
2024 Regular Season · Utah State
0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.6 usage
36.6
#2
2025 Regular Season · BYU
11.3
3 primary · 16.8 efficiency · 4.6 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Utah State
7.8
2 primary · 14.9 efficiency · 3.4 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Bio, Recruit, and Data Context
Recruit Profile
3★
Class 2022 · Rating 0.813
Park City · Park City, UT
- Committed To
- Utah State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Career Facts
2
Career teams
4
Seasons tracked
54
Career Tackles
Data Context
Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 18 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.