Player Dossier

2023-2025

Wake Forest

Tyler Walton

DL • 6'5" • 265 lbs • Suwanee, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tyler Walton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Wake Forest
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: SMU
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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8664

North Gwinnett · Suwanee, GA

Committed To
Wake Forest
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Tyler Walton, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest. Tyler Walton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
19
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Tyler Walton quick answers

Latest team and position
Wake Forest · DL
Career Tackles
19
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 14 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest
Top game
SMU
Recruit profile
3-star · North Gwinnett · Wake Forest
High school pipeline
North Gwinnett · 45 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 42 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
16 tackles · DL 467th (top 44%) · ACC 315th (top 40%) · National 2,392nd (top 39%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonWake Forest00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonWake Forest23-0--038.3
2025 PostseasonWake Forest121-0--032.3
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest1215-021032.3

Related Context

Tyler Walton played DL for Wake Forest. Across 3 tracked seasons, Tyler Walton recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Wake Forest.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Wake Forest paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 8.1 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: SMU

Win with 1 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 · Wake Forest

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

8.1

Usage

1.5

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

SMU

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Mississippi State: 0. Kennesaw State: 1. Western Carolina: 0. NC State: 1. Georgia Tech: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. Oregon State: 0. SMU: 1. Florida State: 0. Virginia: 0. Delaware: 0. 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 on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Mississippi State: 1 by 4.2. Kennesaw State: 1 by 14.2. Western Carolina: 2 by 8.3. NC State: 0 by 10. Georgia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Virginia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Oregon State: 3 by 12.5. SMU: 3 by 22.5. Florida State: 1 by 4.2. Virginia: 1 by 4.2. Delaware: 1 by 4.2. 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.

Wins0.3 · Games = 8 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

SMU

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs SMU

Result
Sat 1/3@ Mississippi StateW 43-2911000
Sat 11/29@ DukeL 32-4910000
Sat 11/22vs DelawareW 52-1410000
Sun 11/9@ VirginiaW 16-910000
Sat 11/1@ Florida StateL 7-4210000
Sat 10/25vs SMUW 13-1232000
Sat 10/11@ Oregon StateW 39-1431000
Sat 10/4@ Virginia TechW 30-2310000
Sat 9/27vs Georgia TechL 29-3011000
Thu 9/11vs NC StateL 24-3400000
Sat 9/6vs Western CarolinaW 42-1021000
Fri 8/29vs Kennesaw StateW 10-911001

Career Arc

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

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    Wake Forest

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonWake Forest0
2024 Regular SeasonWake Forest06.310
2025 PostseasonWake Forest38.11.53
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest38.11.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 23 SMU

Week 9 · W 13-12 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

55.8 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 55 NC State

Week 3 · L 24-34 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 89 Kennesaw State

Week 1 · W 10-9

1

Havoc Plays

40.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 126 Oregon State

Week 7 · W 39-14

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

#5

vs North Carolina A&T

Week 1 · W 45-13

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest

0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1 usage

38.3

#2

2025 Postseason · Wake Forest

32.3

3 primary · 8.1 efficiency · 1.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Wake Forest

32.3

3 primary · 8.1 efficiency · 1.5 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games