Player Dossier

2022-2025

North Carolina

Gavin Gibson

DB • 6'0" • 185 lbs • Hickory, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Gavin Gibson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

38%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

49

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

53

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

59

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · East Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Maryland • East Carolina • North Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Michigan

Player Story

Gavin Gibson built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Hickory, NC wearing No. 5, spending time with East Carolina, Maryland, and North Carolina. The clearest part of Gavin Gibson's...

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Gavin Gibson, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · East Carolina. Gavin Gibson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
119
TFL
13.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
8
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Gavin Gibson quick answers

Latest team and position
North Carolina · DB
Career Tackles
119
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 35 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · East Carolina
Top game
Michigan
High school pipeline
Arcata · 0 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
37 tackles · DB 243rd (top 25%) · ACC 143rd (top 18%) · National 1,032nd (top 17%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonMaryland71521-2034.9
2023 Regular SeasonMaryland71520--015.6
2024 PostseasonEast Carolina11510--066.4
2024 Regular SeasonEast Carolina11475.5013266.4
2025 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina10373013038.5

Related Context

Gavin Gibson played DB for Maryland, East Carolina, and North Carolina. Across 4 tracked seasons, Gavin Gibson recorded 119 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with East Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

East Carolina paired 13.5 primary output with 32 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 22.4 efficiency.

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Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Maryland, East Carolina, North Carolina.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Charlotte

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · North Carolina

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

22.4

Usage

4.7

Consistency

40.5

Best Game by takeover score

Charlotte

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. TCU: 0. Charlotte: 2. UCF: 0. Clemson: 1. California: 2. Virginia: 0. Stanford: 0. Wake Forest: 1. Duke: 1. NC State: 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. TCU: 6 by 25. Charlotte: 6 by 45. UCF: 6 by 25. Clemson: 2 by 18.3. California: 3 by 32.5. Virginia: 4 by 16.7. Stanford: 2 by 8.3. Wake Forest: 2 by 18.3. Duke: 4 by 26.7. NC State: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 2 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 8 · -0.4 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Charlotte

Best efficiency game

45 vs Charlotte

Result
Sun 11/30@ NC StateL 19-4221000
Sat 11/22vs DukeL 25-3242100
Sat 11/15@ Wake ForestL 12-2822001
Sat 11/8vs StanfordW 20-1521000
Sat 10/25vs VirginiaL 16-1743000
Sat 10/18@ CaliforniaSplash gameL 18-2133101
Sat 10/4vs ClemsonL 10-3822000
Sat 9/20@ UCFL 9-3464000
Sat 9/6@ CharlotteSplash gameW 20-363101
Tue 9/2vs TCUL 14-4864000

Player Story

Gavin Gibson story

Gavin Gibson built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Hickory, NC wearing No. 5, spending time with East Carolina, Maryland, and North Carolina. The clearest part of Gavin Gibson's career was his defensive production: 119 tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 3 interceptions across 35 career games in the available record. That gives Gavin Gibson's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Maryland

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    East Carolina

    2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    North Carolina

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonMaryland516.14
2023 Regular SeasonMaryland211.83.2-3
2024 PostseasonEast Carolina13.5327.511.5
2024 Regular SeasonEast Carolina13.5327.50
2025 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina722.44.7-6.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Michigan

Week 4 · L 27-34 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

77.5 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.

#2

vs App State

Week 3 · L 19-21

2

Havoc Plays

75.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75.3 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 134 Charlotte

Week 2 · W 20-3

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Havoc Plays

75.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75.3 takeover score.

#4

@ Old Dominion

Week 2 · W 20-14

1.5

Havoc Plays

72.5 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 72.5 takeover score.

#5

vs Norfolk State

Week 1 · W 42-3

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Havoc Plays

71.1 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · East Carolina

13.5 primary output · 32 efficiency · 7.5 usage

66.4

#2

2024 Regular Season · East Carolina

66.4

13.5 primary · 32 efficiency · 7.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · North Carolina

38.5

7 primary · 22.4 efficiency · 4.7 usage

Milestones

9

Impact games

6

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games