Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Kent 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.
Impact Production
40
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
28
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
55
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kent State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Bowling Green • Kent State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Buffalo
Player Story
Canaan Williams built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Waldorf, MD wearing No. 10, spending time with Bowling Green and Kent State. The clearest part of Canaan Williams' career was his...
Read the storyCanaan 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.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 82
- TFL
- 3.5
- Sacks
- 0.5
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Canaan Williams quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kent State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 82
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 20 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Kent State
- Top game
- Buffalo
- High school pipeline
- National Christian Academy · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 10 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 36 tackles · LB 413th (top 33%) · Mid-American 104th (top 18%) · National 1,067th (top 18%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kent State | 11 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 57.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kent State | 9 | 36 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26.5 |
Related Context
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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.
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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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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
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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 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 | — | — |
Player Story
Canaan Williams story
Canaan Williams built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Waldorf, MD wearing No. 10, spending time with Bowling Green and Kent State. The clearest part of Canaan Williams' career was his defensive production: 82 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 1 interception across 20 career games in the available record. That gives Canaan Williams' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
Bowling Green
2022-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Kent State
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| 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 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Buffalo
Week 14 · L 7-43 · Conference game
Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5
Havoc Plays
78.6 takeover
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 78.6 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 117 Akron
Week 12 · W 42-35 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
64.2 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 64.2 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 113 Bowling Green
Week 9 · W 24-21 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
51.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.
#4
@ Pittsburgh
Week 1 · L 24-55
1
Havoc Plays
49.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.5 takeover score.
#5
@ Miami (OH)
Week 12 · L 7-34 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
49.4 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 49.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Kent State
6 primary output · 22.9 efficiency · 5.4 usage
57.1
#2
2025 Regular Season · Kent State
26.5
3 primary · 20 efficiency · 3.4 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Bowling Green
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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