Usage Score
3.4
Player Dossier
2022-2025Kent State
LB • 6'0" • 205 lbs • Waldorf, MD, USA
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
Snapshot
Scouting Read
Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.
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.
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.
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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.
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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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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
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 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
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9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Akron
Best efficiency game
40.8 vs Akron
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/28 | @ Northern Illinois | W 35-31 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 11/20 | vs Central Michigan | L 16-28 | 7 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Wed 11/12 | @ AkronSplash game | W 42-35 | 5 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0.50 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Bowling Green | W 24-21 | 7 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Oklahoma | L 0-44 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Florida State | L 10-66 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Buffalo | L 28-31 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Texas Tech | L 14-62 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Merrimack | W 21-17 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
Bowling Green
2022-2023
Opening stop
Kent State
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kent State | 6 | 22.9 | 5.4 | 6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kent State | 3 | 20 | 3.4 | -3 |
#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.
#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
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
0
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Recruit Profile
Class 2022 · Rating 0.8056
National Christian Academy · Fort Washington, MD
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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