Usage / Role
31%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025UCF
Isaiah Nixon
EDGE • 6'4" • 240 lbs • Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Isaiah Nixon shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
49
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
41
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
66
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCF
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- UCF
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State
Player Story
Isaiah Nixon built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as an edge defender from Saint Petersburg, FL wearing No. 6, spending time with UCF. The clearest part of Isaiah Nixon's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- UCF
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Isaiah Nixon, EDGE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCF. Isaiah Nixon shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 35
- TFL
- 4.5
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 4
Quick Answers
Isaiah Nixon quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UCF · EDGE
- Career Tackles
- 35
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 17 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · UCF
- Top game
- Oklahoma State
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Lakewood · UCF
- High school pipeline
- Lakewood · 27 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 6 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 24 tackles · EDGE 19th (top 39%) · Big 12 199th (top 28%) · National 1,776th (top 29%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | UCF | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | UCF | 8 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | 19.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UCF | 9 | 24 | 3.5 | 1 | 3 | - | 0 | 57.6 |
Related Context
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Isaiah Nixon played EDGE for UCF. Across 3 tracked seasons, Isaiah Nixon recorded 35 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UCF.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
UCF paired 7.5 primary output with 19.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 19.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State
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 · UCF
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
19.4
Usage
6.7
Consistency
55.4
Best Game by takeover score
Oklahoma State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Jacksonville State: 1. North Carolina A&T: 2. Kansas: 1. West Virginia: 0. Baylor: 0.5. Houston: 0. Texas Tech: 1. Oklahoma State: 2. BYU: 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. Jacksonville State: 2 by 18.3. North Carolina A&T: 6 by 45. Kansas: 2 by 18.3. West Virginia: 2 by 8.3. Baylor: 2 by 13.3. Houston: 1 by 4.2. Texas Tech: 2 by 18.3. Oklahoma State: 3 by 32.5. BYU: 4 by 16.7
Split Comparison
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Wins1.3 · Games = 4 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · 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
Oklahoma State
Best efficiency game
45 vs North Carolina A&T
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | @ BYU | L 21-41 | 4 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Oklahoma StateSplash game | W 17-14 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | @ Texas Tech | L 9-48 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs Houston | L 27-30 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ Baylor | L 3-30 | 2 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | vs West Virginia | W 45-13 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Kansas | L 20-27 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs North Carolina A&TSplash game | W 68-7 | 6 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 8/28 | vs Jacksonville State | W 17-10 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Isaiah Nixon story
Isaiah Nixon built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as an edge defender from Saint Petersburg, FL wearing No. 6, spending time with UCF. The clearest part of Isaiah Nixon's career was his defensive production: 35 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 17 career games in the available record. That gives Isaiah Nixon's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
UCF
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | UCF | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | UCF | 3 | 9.5 | 2.5 | 3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UCF | 7.5 | 19.4 | 6.7 | 4.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 121 Oklahoma State
Week 13 · W 17-14 · Conference game
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
77.5 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.
#2
vs North Carolina A&T
Week 2 · W 68-7
2
Havoc Plays
76.9 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.9 takeover score.
#3
vs Cincinnati
Week 7 · L 13-19 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
73.6 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 3 Texas Tech
Week 12 · L 9-48 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
1
Havoc Plays
54.7 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 58 Kansas
Week 6 · L 20-27 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
48 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 48 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · UCF
7.5 primary output · 19.4 efficiency · 6.7 usage
57.6
#2
2024 Regular Season · UCF
19.6
3 primary · 9.5 efficiency · 2.5 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · UCF
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
3
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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