Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Florida State
Blake Nichelson
LB • 6'3" • 229 lbs • Ripon, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Blake Nichelson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
21
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
28
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Florida State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Alabama
Player Story
Blake Nichelson built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Ripon, CA wearing No. 20, spending time with Florida State. The clearest part of Blake Nichelson's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Florida State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Blake Nichelson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida State. Blake Nichelson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 100
- TFL
- 10.5
- Sacks
- 1.5
- QB hurries
- 1
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Blake Nichelson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Florida State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 100
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 30 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Florida State
- Top game
- Alabama
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Manteca · Florida State
- High school pipeline
- Manteca · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 43 tackles · LB 344th (top 27%) · ACC 100th (top 13%) · National 810th (top 14%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Postseason | Florida State | 8 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 8 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Florida State | 8 | 9 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Florida State | 10 | 45 | 4 | 0.5 | - | - | 0 | 45.7 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Florida State | 12 | 43 | 6.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 53.2 |
Related Context
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Blake Nichelson played LB for Florida State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Blake Nichelson recorded 100 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Florida State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Florida State paired 9.5 primary output with 22.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 7.5 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: Southern Miss
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Postseason · Florida State
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.1
Efficiency
7.5
Usage
1.2
Consistency
4.2
Best Game by takeover score
Southern Miss
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Georgia: 0. Southern Miss: 1. Virginia Tech: 0. Syracuse: 0. Duke: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Pittsburgh: 0. North Alabama: 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. Georgia: 3 by 12.5. Southern Miss: 0 by 10. Virginia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Syracuse: 1 by 4.2. Duke: 1 by 4.2. Wake Forest: 2 by 8.3. Pittsburgh: 1 by 4.2. North Alabama: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0.1 · Games = 7 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.1 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
Southern Miss
Best efficiency game
12.5 vs Georgia
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12/30 | vs Georgia | L 3-63 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/18 | vs North Alabama | W 58-13 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/4 | @ Pittsburgh | W 24-7 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/28 | @ Wake Forest | W 41-16 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/21 | vs Duke | W 38-20 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/14 | vs Syracuse | W 41-3 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | vs Virginia Tech | W 39-17 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/10 | vs Southern Miss | W 66-13 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
Blake Nichelson story
Blake Nichelson built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Ripon, CA wearing No. 20, spending time with Florida State. The clearest part of Blake Nichelson's career was his defensive production: 100 tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 30 career games in the available record. That gives Blake Nichelson's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Florida State
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2023202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Postseason | Florida State | 1 | 7.5 | 1.2 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Florida State | 1 | 7.5 | 1.2 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Florida State | 4.5 | 23.3 | 5.8 | 3.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Florida State | 9.5 | 22.9 | 6.3 | 5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 20 Alabama
Week 1 · W 31-17 · Ranked opponent
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
77.2 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 77.2 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 9 Miami
Week 6 · L 22-28 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
70.6 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 112 Stanford
Week 8 · L 13-20 · Conference game
1.5
Havoc Plays
64.7 takeover
Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 64.7 takeover score.
#4
vs Florida
Week 14 · L 11-31
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Havoc Plays
61.7 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.7 takeover score.
#5
@ SMU
Week 5 · L 16-42 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
59.4 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Florida State
9.5 primary output · 22.9 efficiency · 6.3 usage
53.2
#2
2024 Regular Season · Florida State
45.7
4.5 primary · 23.3 efficiency · 5.8 usage
#3
2023 Postseason · Florida State
8
1 primary · 7.5 efficiency · 1.2 usage
Milestones
4
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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