Player Dossier

2022-2025

Virginia Tech

John Love

PK • 5'11" • 180 lbs • Spartanburg, SC, USA

Impact contributor

John Love shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

Production sample still building

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Reliability

100

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: 2022 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Virginia Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Liberty

Player Story

John Love built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a placekicker from Spartanburg, SC wearing No. 17, spending time with Virginia Tech. The clearest part of John Love's career was his special-teams scoring:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8181

Spartanburg · Spartanburg, SC

Committed To
Virginia Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

John Love, PK. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Virginia Tech. John Love shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Rushing yards
11

Quick Answers

John Love quick answers

Latest team and position
Virginia Tech · PK
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 40 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Virginia Tech
Top game
Liberty
Recruit profile
3-star · Spartanburg · Virginia Tech
High school pipeline
Spartanburg · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 17 · Junior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2022 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech200100
2023 PostseasonVirginia Tech1300100
2023 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech1300100
2024 PostseasonVirginia Tech1300100
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech1300100
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech1200100

Related Context

John Love played PK for Virginia Tech. Across 4 tracked seasons, John Love recorded 11 rushing yards. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Virginia Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Virginia Tech paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Virginia

Loss with a strong all-around stat line. 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 · Virginia Tech

Games

12

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Virginia

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. South Carolina: 0. Vanderbilt: 0. Old Dominion: 0. Wofford: 0. NC State: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Georgia Tech: 0. California: 0. Louisville: 0. Florida State: 0. Miami: 0. Virginia: 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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Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 9 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Virginia

Best efficiency game

— vs Virginia

Result
Sun 11/30@ VirginiaL 7-27
Sat 11/22vs MiamiL 17-34
Sun 11/16@ Florida StateL 14-34
Sat 11/1vs LouisvilleL 16-28
Fri 10/24vs CaliforniaW 42-34
Sat 10/11@ Georgia TechL 20-35
Sat 10/4vs Wake ForestL 23-30
Sat 9/27@ NC StateW 23-21
Sat 9/20vs WoffordW 38-6
Sat 9/13vs Old DominionL 26-45
Sat 9/6vs VanderbiltL 20-44
Sun 8/31@ South CarolinaL 11-24

Player Story

John Love story

John Love built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a placekicker from Spartanburg, SC wearing No. 17, spending time with Virginia Tech. The clearest part of John Love's career was his special-teams scoring: 276 kicking points, 54 made field goals on 65 attempts, and 114 extra points across 40 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Virginia Tech. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Special-teams careers depend on repeatable opportunity, not just one highlight. His career also includes 11 rushing yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 40 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Virginia Tech.

The arc is straightforward: John Love 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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    Virginia Tech

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech0
2023 PostseasonVirginia Tech00
2023 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech00
2024 PostseasonVirginia Tech00
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech00
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Liberty

Week 12 · W 23-22

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

@ Duke

Week 11 · L 7-24 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

@ Tulane

Week 1 · W 41-20 · Postseason

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Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

@ Virginia

Week 13 · W 55-17 · Conference game

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Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

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vs NC State

Week 12 · L 28-35 · Conference game

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Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2023 Postseason · Virginia Tech

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games