Player Dossier

2022-2025

Minnesota

Joey Gerlach

LB • 6'3" • 225 lbs • Woodbury, MN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Joey Gerlach shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

15

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

26

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Minnesota
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern State
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8478

Woodbury · Saint Paul, MN

Committed To
Minnesota
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Joey Gerlach, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Minnesota. Joey Gerlach shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
27

Quick Answers

Joey Gerlach quick answers

Latest team and position
Minnesota · LB
Career Tackles
27
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 14 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Minnesota
Top game
Northwestern State
Recruit profile
3-star · Woodbury · Minnesota
High school pipeline
Woodbury · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 19 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
11 tackles · LB 731st (top 58%) · Big Ten 347th (top 45%) · National 2,821st (top 46%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota00-0--0-
2023 PostseasonMinnesota11-0--038.1
2024 PostseasonMinnesota82-0--041
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota813-0--041
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota511-0--042

Related Context

Joey Gerlach played LB for Minnesota. Across 4 tracked seasons, Joey Gerlach recorded 27 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Minnesota.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Minnesota paired 0 primary output with 9.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.2 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: Northwestern State

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

9.2

Usage

2

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Northwestern State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Buffalo: 0. Northwestern State: 0. Ohio State: 0. Purdue: 0. Iowa: 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. Buffalo: 1 by 4.2. Northwestern State: 5 by 20.8. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 1 by 4.2. Iowa: 3 by 12.5

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 = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Northwestern State

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Northwestern State

Result
Sat 10/25@ IowaL 3-4131000
Sat 10/11vs PurdueW 27-2010000
Sat 10/4@ Ohio StateL 3-4211000
Sat 9/6vs Northwestern StateW 66-052000
Fri 8/29vs BuffaloW 23-1011000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Minnesota

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota0
2023 PostseasonMinnesota04.21.20
2024 PostseasonMinnesota07.81.80
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota07.81.80
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota09.220

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Northwestern State

Week 2 · W 66-0

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

21.1 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.1 takeover score.

#2

@ UCLA

Week 7 · W 21-17 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

15.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.6 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 12 Iowa

Week 9 · L 3-41 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

11.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Wisconsin

Week 14 · W 24-7 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.2 takeover score.

#5

@ Virginia Tech

Week 1 · W 24-10 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

8.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

0 primary output · 9.2 efficiency · 2 usage

42

#2

2024 Postseason · Minnesota

41

0 primary · 7.8 efficiency · 1.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Minnesota

41

0 primary · 7.8 efficiency · 1.8 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games