Player Dossier

2023-2025

Northwestern

Tyler Gant

DL • 6'3" • 290 lbs • Saint Louis, MO, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tyler Gant shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Northwestern
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Maryland

Tyler Gant, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern. Tyler Gant shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
9
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Tyler Gant quick answers

Latest team and position
Northwestern · DL
Career Tackles
9
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 10 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Northwestern
Top game
Maryland
High school pipeline
Christian Brothers College · 29 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 54 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DL 851st (top 79%) · Big Ten 496th (top 64%) · National 3,989th (top 65%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonNorthwestern11-0--036.4
2024 Regular SeasonNorthwestern54-0-2031.6
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern41-0--037.2
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern43-0--037.2

Related Context

Tyler Gant played DL for Northwestern. Across 3 tracked seasons, Tyler Gant recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Northwestern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Northwestern paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 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: UL Monroe

Win 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 · Northwestern

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

UL Monroe

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Central Michigan: 0. Tulane: 0. Western Illinois: 0. UL Monroe: 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. Central Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Tulane: 1 by 4.2. Western Illinois: 1 by 4.2. UL Monroe: 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 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UL Monroe

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Central Michigan

Result
Fri 12/26vs Central MichiganW 34-710000
Sat 10/4vs UL MonroeW 42-711000
Fri 9/5vs Western IllinoisW 42-710000
Sat 8/30@ TulaneL 3-2311000

Career Arc

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

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    Northwestern

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonNorthwestern04.20.6
2024 Regular SeasonNorthwestern27.30.72
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern04.20.9-2
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern04.20.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Maryland

Week 7 · W 37-10 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Duke

Week 2 · L 20-26

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Miami (OH)

Week 1 · W 13-6

0

Havoc Plays

7.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.8 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 131 UL Monroe

Week 6 · W 42-7

0

Havoc Plays

4.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.5 takeover score.

#5

@ Purdue

Week 10 · W 26-20 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Northwestern

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

37.2

#2

2025 Regular Season · Northwestern

37.2

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Northwestern

36.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games