Player Dossier

2024-2025

Arkansas State

Kyle Taylor

LB • 6'1" • 228 lbs • The Colony, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kyle Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 33.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

73%

Major defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

72

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Arkansas State

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Snapshot

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

Player Story

Kyle Taylor built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from The Colony, TX wearing No. 20, spending time with Arkansas State. The clearest part of Kyle Taylor's career was his defensive...

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Kyle Taylor, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Arkansas State. Kyle Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 33.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
90
TFL
1
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Kyle Taylor quick answers

Latest team and position
Arkansas State · LB
Career Tackles
90
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 16 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Arkansas State
Top game
App State
Latest roster
No. 20 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
84 tackles · LB 90th (top 8%) · Sun Belt 17th (top 3%) · National 120th (top 2%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas State36-0--040.1
2025 PostseasonArkansas State1110-0-1048.9
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas State1174101-048.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Unlisted to Arkansas StateUnlisted to G5/FCS77.7Dec 5, 2023

Kyle Taylor played LB for Arkansas State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Kyle Taylor recorded 90 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Arkansas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Arkansas State paired 3 primary output with 33.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 33.8 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: App State

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Arkansas State

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

33.8

Usage

6.3

Consistency

9.1

Best Game by takeover score

App State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Missouri State: 1. Southeast Missouri State: 0. Iowa State: 0. Kennesaw State: 0. Texas State: 0. South Alabama: 0.5. Georgia Southern: 0. Troy: 0. Southern Miss: 0. Louisiana: 0. App State: 1.5

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Missouri State: 10 by 51.7. Southeast Missouri State: 4 by 16.7. Kennesaw State: 2 by 8.3. Texas State: 12 by 50. South Alabama: 14 by 55. Georgia Southern: 9 by 37.5. Troy: 6 by 25. Southern Miss: 11 by 45.8. Louisiana: 10 by 41.7. App State: 6 by 40

Split Comparison

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Wins0.4 · Games = 7 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -0.4 vs Wins

Game Log

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11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

App State

Best efficiency game

55 vs South Alabama

Result
Fri 12/19vs Missouri State10+ tacklesW 34-28104001
Sat 11/29@ App StateW 30-29620.5000
Fri 11/21vs Louisiana10+ tacklesL 30-34104000
Sat 11/8vs Southern Miss10+ tacklesL 21-27113000
Sun 11/2@ TroyW 23-1061000
Sat 10/25vs Georgia SouthernW 34-2492000
Tue 10/14@ South Alabama10+ tacklesW 15-141450.5000
Sat 10/4vs Texas State10+ tacklesW 31-30124000
Sat 9/20@ Kennesaw StateL 21-2822000
Sat 9/13vs Iowa StateL 16-24
Sat 8/30vs Southeast Missouri StateW 42-2441000

Player Story

Kyle Taylor story

Kyle Taylor built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from The Colony, TX wearing No. 20, spending time with Arkansas State. The clearest part of Kyle Taylor's career was his defensive production: 90 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 pass defended across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Arkansas 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 Kyle Taylor's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 14 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Arkansas State.

The arc is straightforward: Kyle Taylor 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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    Arkansas State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas State08.31.4
2025 PostseasonArkansas State333.86.33
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas State333.86.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 111 App State

Week 14 · W 30-29 · Conference game

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5

Havoc Plays

72.5 takeover

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 72.5 takeover score.

#2

@ Texas Tech

Week 3

2

Havoc Plays

68.4 takeover

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 68.4 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 114 South Alabama

Week 8 · W 15-14 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

62.8 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 62.8 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 108 Missouri State

Week 1 · W 34-28 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

57.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 65 Texas State

Week 6 · W 31-30 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

50 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 50 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Arkansas State

3 primary output · 33.8 efficiency · 6.3 usage

48.9

#2

2025 Regular Season · Arkansas State

48.9

3 primary · 33.8 efficiency · 6.3 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Arkansas State

40.1

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

1

Splash games

5

10+ tackle games