Player Dossier

2022-2025

Kent State

Canaan Williams

LB • 6'0" • 205 lbs • Waldorf, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Canaan Williams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.

Usage Score

3.4

Efficiency

20

Consistency

7.4

Season Value

20.2

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kent State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
Bowling Green • Kent State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Buffalo

Scouting Read

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Canaan Williams, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kent State. Canaan Williams shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.

Canaan Williams played LB for Bowling Green and Kent State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Canaan Williams recorded 82 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Kent State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Kent State paired 6 primary output with 22.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Bowling Green, Kent State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Akron

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. 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 · Kent State

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

20

Usage

3.4

Consistency

7.4

Best Game by takeover score

Akron

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Merrimack: 0. Texas Tech: 0. Buffalo: 0. Florida State: 0. Oklahoma: 0. Bowling Green: 1. Akron: 2. Central Michigan: 0. Northern Illinois: 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. Merrimack: 2 by 8.3. Texas Tech: 4 by 16.7. Buffalo: 4 by 16.7. Florida State: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma: 3 by 12.5. Bowling Green: 7 by 39.2. Akron: 5 by 40.8. Central Michigan: 7 by 29.2. Northern Illinois: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 5 · -0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Akron

Best efficiency game

40.8 vs Akron

Result
Fri 11/28@ Northern IllinoisW 35-3121000
Thu 11/20vs Central MichiganL 16-2874000
Wed 11/12@ AkronSplash gameW 42-35500.500.501
Sat 10/25vs Bowling GreenW 24-2172000
Sat 10/4@ OklahomaL 0-4432000
Sat 9/20@ Florida StateL 10-6621000
Sat 9/13vs BuffaloL 28-3142000
Sat 9/6@ Texas TechL 14-6242000
Sat 8/30vs MerrimackW 21-1721000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Bowling Green

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kent State

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonBowling Green0
2023 Regular SeasonBowling Green00
2024 Regular SeasonKent State622.95.46
2025 Regular SeasonKent State3203.4-3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Buffalo

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5

Primary metric

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 49.8 takeover score.

#2

Akron

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 49 takeover score.

#3

Bowling Green

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 32.4 takeover score.

#4

Pittsburgh

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 32.1 takeover score.

#5

Akron

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 30.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Kent State

6 primary output · 22.9 efficiency · 5.4 usage

47.2

#2

2025 Regular Season · Kent State

20.2

3 primary · 20 efficiency · 3.4 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Bowling Green

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8056

National Christian Academy · Fort Washington, MD

Committed To
Bowling Green
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Career Facts

2

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

82

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 20 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.

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