Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Southern Miss
Avery Sledge
LB • 6'2" • 220 lbs • Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Avery Sledge shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
19
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
20
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: 2022 Regular Season · Mississippi State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Mississippi State • Southern Miss
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: SE Louisiana
Player Story
Avery Sledge built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Hattiesburg, MS wearing No. 33, spending time with Mississippi State and Southern Miss. The clearest part of Avery Sledge's career was...
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- Committed To
- Mississippi State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Avery Sledge, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Mississippi State. Avery Sledge shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 31
- TFL
- 0.5
- Passes defended
- 2
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Avery Sledge quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Southern Miss · LB
- Career Tackles
- 31
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 19 games
- Best season
- 2022 Regular Season · Mississippi State
- Top game
- SE Louisiana
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Forrest County Agricultural · Mississippi State
- High school pipeline
- Forrest County Agricultural · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 33 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · LB 649th (top 51%) · Sun Belt 265th (top 42%) · National 2,405th (top 39%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.4 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 2 | 36.4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 8 | 13 | - | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 32 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 8 | 15 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 12.1 |
Related Context
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Avery Sledge played LB for Mississippi State and Southern Miss. Across 4 tracked seasons, Avery Sledge recorded 31 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Southern Miss.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season
Mississippi State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 9.3 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 Mississippi State, Southern Miss.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: SE Louisiana
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
9.3
Usage
1.3
Consistency
8.3
Best Game by takeover score
SE Louisiana
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. SE Louisiana: 1. South Florida: 0. Louisiana: 0. James Madison: 0. Marshall: 0. Texas State: 1. South Alabama: 0. Troy: 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. SE Louisiana: 1 by 14.2. South Florida: 1 by 4.2. Louisiana: 2 by 8.3. James Madison: 1 by 4.2. Marshall: 2 by 8.3. Texas State: 1 by 14.2. South Alabama: 3 by 12.5. Troy: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
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Wins1 · Games = 1 · +0.9 vs Losses
Losses0.1 · Games = 7 · -0.9 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
SE Louisiana
Best efficiency game
14.2 vs Texas State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/30 | @ Troy | L 20-52 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/23 | vs South Alabama | L 14-35 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/17 | @ Texas State | L 3-58 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/9 | vs Marshall | L 3-37 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/26 | @ James Madison | L 15-32 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/5 | vs Louisiana | L 13-23 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/14 | vs South Florida | L 24-49 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/7 | vs SE Louisiana | W 35-10 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
Avery Sledge story
Avery Sledge built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Hattiesburg, MS wearing No. 33, spending time with Mississippi State and Southern Miss. The clearest part of Avery Sledge's career was his defensive production: 31 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, and 2 passes defended across 19 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Southern Miss. 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 Avery Sledge's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 11 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 19 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Mississippi State and Southern Miss.
The arc is straightforward: Avery Sledge 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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- 1
Mississippi State
2022-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Southern Miss
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 2 | 9.3 | 1.3 | 2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 0.5 | 8.4 | 1.3 | -1.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs SE Louisiana
Week 2 · W 35-10
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
40.3 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.
#2
@ Texas State
Week 12 · L 3-58 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
40 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 105 Louisiana
Week 8 · W 22-10 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
30.3 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.3 takeover score.
#4
vs South Alabama
Week 13 · L 14-35 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
13.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.3 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 114 South Alabama
Week 13 · L 35-42 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
10.8 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.8 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2022 Regular Season · Mississippi State
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
36.4
#2
2023 Regular Season · Mississippi State
36.4
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
32
2 primary · 9.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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