Player Dossier

2023-2025

SMU

Brandon Miyazono

LB • 6'1" • 235 lbs • Frisco, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Miyazono shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26 disruption score.

Usage / Role

59%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

68

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

54

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
SMU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Stanford

Player Story

Brandon Miyazono built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Frisco, TX wearing No. 29, spending time with SMU. The clearest part of Brandon Miyazono's career was his defensive production: 72...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8411

Frisco · Frisco, TX

Committed To
SMU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Brandon Miyazono, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU. Brandon Miyazono shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
72
TFL
8
Sacks
3
Passes defended
8

Quick Answers

Brandon Miyazono quick answers

Latest team and position
SMU · LB
Career Tackles
72
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 27 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · SMU
Top game
Stanford
Recruit profile
3-star · Frisco · SMU
High school pipeline
Frisco · 14 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 29 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
44 tackles · LB 326th (top 26%) · ACC 95th (top 12%) · National 762nd (top 13%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonSMU7130.50--07.8
2024 PostseasonSMU7410--020.7
2024 Regular SeasonSMU71121--020.7
2025 PostseasonSMU13410-1058.3
2025 Regular SeasonSMU13403.52-7058.3

Related Context

Brandon Miyazono played LB for SMU. Across 3 tracked seasons, Brandon Miyazono recorded 72 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with SMU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

SMU paired 15.5 primary output with 26 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 14.7 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: Stanford

Win with 2 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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Season Explorer

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2024 Postseason · SMU

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

14.7

Usage

3.4

Consistency

14.3

Best Game by takeover score

Stanford

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Penn State: 1. Houston Christian: 1. Nevada: 0. TCU: 0. Louisville: 0. Stanford: 2. Duke: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Penn State: 4 by 26.7. Houston Christian: 2 by 18.3. Nevada: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 3 by 12.5. Louisville: 1 by 4.2. Stanford: 3 by 32.5. Duke: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 6 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Stanford

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Stanford

Result
Sat 12/21@ Penn StateL 10-3843100
Sun 10/27@ DukeW 28-2710000
Sun 10/20@ StanfordSplash gameW 40-1031110
Sat 10/5@ LouisvilleW 34-2710000
Sat 9/21vs TCUW 66-4230000
Sun 9/1vs Houston ChristianW 59-721100
Sun 8/25@ NevadaW 29-2410000

Player Story

Brandon Miyazono story

Brandon Miyazono built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Frisco, TX wearing No. 29, spending time with SMU. The clearest part of Brandon Miyazono's career was his defensive production: 72 tackles, 8 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 1 interception across 27 career games in the available record. That gives Brandon Miyazono's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

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    SMU

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonSMU0.58.51.8
2024 PostseasonSMU414.73.43.5
2024 Regular SeasonSMU414.73.40
2025 PostseasonSMU15.5265.211.5
2025 Regular SeasonSMU15.5265.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 112 Stanford

Week 7 · W 34-10 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

67.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 67.2 takeover score.

#2

@ Stanford

Week 8 · W 40-10 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

65.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 65.3 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 25 Louisville

Week 13 · W 38-6 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

65 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 65 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 28 Arizona

Week 1 · W 24-19 · Postseason

2

Havoc Plays

57 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 57 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 34 Clemson

Week 8 · W 35-24 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

46.9 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 46.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · SMU

15.5 primary output · 26 efficiency · 5.2 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · SMU

58.3

15.5 primary · 26 efficiency · 5.2 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · SMU

20.7

4 primary · 14.7 efficiency · 3.4 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

5

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games