Player Dossier

2024-2025

Kent State

Mason Woods

LB • 5'11" • 215 lbs • Woodbridge, VA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Mason Woods shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 46.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

89%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

94

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

87

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kent State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Kent State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Akron

Player Story

Mason Woods built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Woodbridge, VA, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Mason Woods' career was his defensive production: 162 tackles, 14.5...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8059

Gar-Field · Woodbridge, VA

Committed To
Towson
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Mason Woods, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kent State. Mason Woods shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 46.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
162
TFL
14.5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
3
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Mason Woods quick answers

Latest team and position
Kent State · LB
Career Tackles
162
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 26 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Kent State
Top game
Akron
Recruit profile
3-star · Gar-Field · Towson
High school pipeline
Gar-Field · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 0 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
94 tackles · LB 58th (top 5%) · Mid-American 9th (top 2%) · National 71st (top 2%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonKent State12683.50-1026.3
2025 Regular SeasonKent State129411231074

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Kent State to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted14.1Jul 28, 2025
2024Unlisted to Kent StateUnlisted to G5/FCS75.6Dec 11, 2023

Mason Woods played LB for Kent State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Mason Woods recorded 162 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kent State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Kent State paired 17 primary output with 46.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 46.4 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: Akron

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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2025 Regular Season · Kent State

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

1.4

Efficiency

46.4

Usage

12.9

Consistency

49.5

Best Game by takeover score

Akron

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Merrimack: 0.5. Texas Tech: 1. Buffalo: 1. Florida State: 1. Oklahoma: 2. Massachusetts: 3. Toledo: 1. Bowling Green: 1. Ball State: 1. Akron: 3. Central Michigan: 1. Northern Illinois: 1.5

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Merrimack: 8 by 38.3. Texas Tech: 5 by 30.8. Buffalo: 7 by 39.2. Florida State: 8 by 43.3. Oklahoma: 4 by 36.7. Massachusetts: 5 by 50.8. Toledo: 10 by 51.7. Bowling Green: 9 by 47.5. Ball State: 8 by 43.3. Akron: 13 by 80. Central Michigan: 11 by 55.8. Northern Illinois: 6 by 40

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.8 · Games = 5 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses1.1 · Games = 7 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Akron

Best efficiency game

80 vs Akron

Result
Fri 11/28@ Northern IllinoisW 35-31641.5000
Thu 11/20vs Central Michigan10+ tacklesL 16-28113100
Wed 11/12@ Akron10+ tackles · Splash gameW 42-35133210
Thu 11/6@ Ball StateL 13-1782001
Sat 10/25vs Bowling GreenW 24-2192100
Sat 10/18@ Toledo10+ tacklesL 10-45106100
Sat 10/11vs MassachusettsSplash gameW 42-654100
Sat 10/4@ OklahomaSplash gameL 0-4442110
Sat 9/20@ Florida StateL 10-6682100
Sat 9/13vs BuffaloL 28-3173100
Sat 9/6@ Texas TechL 14-6252000
Sat 8/30vs MerrimackW 21-17820.5000

Player Story

Mason Woods story

Mason Woods built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Woodbridge, VA, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Mason Woods' career was his defensive production: 162 tackles, 14.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 26 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Kent State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Mason Woods' production has multiple signals. With 26 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kent State.

The arc is straightforward: Mason Woods moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Kent State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonKent State4.527.44.8
2025 Regular SeasonKent State1746.412.912.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 117 Akron

Week 12 · W 42-35 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

93.3 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 93.3 takeover score.

#2

@ Bowling Green

Week 8 · L 6-27 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

80.3 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 80.3 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 136 Massachusetts

Week 7 · W 42-6 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

77.5 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.

#4

@ West Virginia

Week 3

1

Havoc Plays

73.8 takeover

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 73.8 takeover score.

#5

@ Maryland

Week 1

1

Havoc Plays

71.7 takeover

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Kent State

17 primary output · 46.4 efficiency · 12.9 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · Kent State

26.3

4.5 primary · 27.4 efficiency · 4.8 usage

Milestones

9

Impact games

4

Splash games

4

10+ tackle games