Player Dossier

2023-2025

Mississippi State

Joseph Head Jr.

DL • 6'4" • 255 lbs • Lexington, MS, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Joseph Head Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Usage Score

1.4

Efficiency

8.3

Consistency

100

Season Value

36.6

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Mississippi State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
Mississippi State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Unknown

Scouting Read

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Joseph Head Jr., DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Mississippi State. Joseph Head Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Joseph Head Jr. played DL for Mississippi State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Joseph Head Jr. recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Mississippi State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Mississippi State paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 8.3 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: Unknown

Game with 0 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 Postseason · Mississippi State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

8.3

Usage

1.4

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Wake Forest

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wake Forest: 0. Unknown: 0. Texas: 0. Georgia: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Wake Forest: 2 by 8.3. Unknown: 3 by 12.5. Texas: 1 by 4.2. Georgia: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Losses0 · Games = 3
First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs First Half
All Games0 · Games = 4

Game Log

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4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Unknown

Best efficiency game

12.5 vs Unknown

Result
Sat 1/3vs Wake ForestL 29-4320000
Sat 11/8vs GeorgiaL 21-4120000
Sat 10/25vs TexasL 38-4511000
Sat 9/13vs Unknown31000

Career Arc

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

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    Mississippi State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonMississippi State0
2024 Regular SeasonMississippi State1.56.821.5
2025 PostseasonMississippi State08.31.4-1.5
2025 Regular SeasonMississippi State08.31.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Unknown

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.6 takeover score.

#2

Massachusetts

0.5

Primary metric

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 20.9 takeover score.

#3

Unknown

0

Primary metric

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.9 takeover score.

#4

Wake Forest

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#5

Georgia

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2025 Postseason · Mississippi State

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

36.6

#2

2025 Regular Season · Mississippi State

36.6

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State

7.2

1.5 primary · 6.8 efficiency · 2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8786

Holmes County · Lexington, MS

Committed To
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Career Facts

1

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

19

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 13 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.