Player Dossier

2023-2025

Vanderbilt

Randon Fontenette

LB • 6'2" • 220 lbs • Freeport, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Randon Fontenette shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

22%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

21

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

28

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

23242525

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
TCU • Vanderbilt
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Texas

Player Story

Randon Fontenette built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Freeport, TX wearing No. 2, spending time with TCU and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Randon Fontenette's career was his...

Read the story
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9163

Brazosport · Freeport, TX

Committed To
TCU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Randon Fontenette, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt. Randon Fontenette shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
137
TFL
14.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
13
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Randon Fontenette quick answers

Latest team and position
Vanderbilt · LB
Career Tackles
137
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 30 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
Top game
Texas
Recruit profile
4-star · Brazosport · TCU
High school pipeline
Brazosport · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 2 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
51 tackles · LB 283rd (top 23%) · SEC 79th (top 11%) · National 595th (top 10%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonTCU514-0--042.7
2024 Regular SeasonVanderbilt127282.5-7264
2025 PostseasonVanderbilt133-0--054.9
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt13486.5056054.9

Related Context

Randon Fontenette played LB for TCU and Vanderbilt. Across 3 tracked seasons, Randon Fontenette recorded 137 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Vanderbilt.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Vanderbilt paired 18.5 primary output with 39.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 29.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across TCU, Vanderbilt.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Missouri

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

Games

13

Havoc Plays / G

1.3

Efficiency

29.8

Usage

5.9

Consistency

46.3

Best Game by takeover score

Missouri

Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

12345678910111213

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Iowa: 0. Charleston Southern: 0. Virginia Tech: 1. South Carolina: 2. Georgia State: 2. Utah State: 3. Alabama: 0. LSU: 1. Missouri: 3. Texas: 0. Auburn: 2.5. Kentucky: 2. Tennessee: 1

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.

Low volumeHigh quality

High volumeHigh quality

Low volumeLower quality

High volumeLower quality

Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Iowa: 3 by 12.5. Charleston Southern: 1 by 4.2. Virginia Tech: 2 by 18.3. South Carolina: 4 by 36.7. Georgia State: 2 by 28.3. Utah State: 3 by 42.5. Alabama: 2 by 8.3. LSU: 3 by 22.5. Missouri: 6 by 55. Texas: 5 by 20.8. Auburn: 8 by 58.3. Kentucky: 4 by 36.7. Tennessee: 8 by 43.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.8 · Games = 10 · +1.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -1.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

13 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Missouri

Best efficiency game

58.3 vs Auburn

Result
Wed 12/31vs IowaL 27-3432000
Sat 11/29@ TennesseeW 45-2485001
Sat 11/22vs KentuckySplash gameW 45-1742100
Sat 11/8vs AuburnSplash gameW 45-38820.5002
Sat 11/1@ TexasL 31-3454000
Sat 10/25vs MissouriSplash gameW 17-1062100
Sat 10/18vs LSUW 31-2433001
Sat 10/4@ AlabamaL 14-3021000
Sat 9/27vs Utah StateSplash gameW 55-3533100
Sat 9/20vs Georgia StateSplash gameW 70-2122101
Sat 9/13@ South CarolinaSplash gameW 31-743200
Sat 9/6@ Virginia TechW 44-2021001
Sat 8/30vs Charleston SouthernW 45-310000

Player Story

Randon Fontenette story

Randon Fontenette built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Freeport, TX wearing No. 2, spending time with TCU and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Randon Fontenette's career was his defensive production: 137 tackles, 14.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and 1 interception across 30 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Vanderbilt. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Randon Fontenette's production has multiple signals. With 30 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across TCU and Vanderbilt.

The arc is straightforward: Randon Fontenette moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    TCU

    2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Vanderbilt

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonTCU011.72
2024 Regular SeasonVanderbilt18.539.69.718.5
2025 PostseasonVanderbilt17.529.85.9-1
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt17.529.85.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Texas

Week 9 · L 24-27 · Conference game

Loss with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6

Havoc Plays

94.4 takeover

6 disruption/tackle impact with 94.4 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 21 Missouri

Week 9 · W 17-10 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

3

Havoc Plays

85 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 85 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 79 Utah State

Week 5 · W 55-35

3

Havoc Plays

75.6 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 75.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Auburn

Week 10 · W 17-7 · Conference game

3.5

Havoc Plays

68.6 takeover

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 68.6 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 49 South Carolina

Week 3 · W 31-7 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

18.5 primary output · 39.6 efficiency · 9.7 usage

64

#2

2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

54.9

17.5 primary · 29.8 efficiency · 5.9 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

54.9

17.5 primary · 29.8 efficiency · 5.9 usage

Milestones

8

Impact games

10

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games