Player Dossier

2023-2025

Minnesota

Za'Quan Bryan

DB • 5'10" • 190 lbs • Savannah, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Za'Quan Bryan shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

33%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

41

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

31

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

58

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Minnesota

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Minnesota
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Nebraska

Player Story

Za'Quan Bryan built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Savannah, GA wearing No. 4, spending time with Minnesota. The clearest part of Za'Quan Bryan's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8733

Benedictine Military School · Savannah, GA

Committed To
Minnesota
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Za'Quan Bryan, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Minnesota. Za'Quan Bryan shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
58
TFL
2
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
9

Quick Answers

Za'Quan Bryan quick answers

Latest team and position
Minnesota · DB
Career Tackles
58
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 21 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Minnesota
Top game
Nebraska
Recruit profile
3-star · Benedictine Military School · Minnesota
High school pipeline
Benedictine Military School · 17 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 4 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
37 tackles · DB 245th (top 26%) · Big Ten 128th (top 17%) · National 1,060th (top 18%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 PostseasonMinnesota21-0-1020.3
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota21-0--020.3
2024 PostseasonMinnesota9210--038.1
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota917-0-5038.1
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota10371013034.9

Related Context

Za'Quan Bryan played DB for Minnesota. Across 3 tracked seasons, Za'Quan Bryan recorded 58 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Minnesota.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Minnesota paired 7 primary output with 16.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 20.4 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: Nebraska

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

20.4

Usage

4.1

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Nebraska

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Buffalo: 1. Northwestern State: 0. California: 0. Rutgers: 0. Ohio State: 1. Purdue: 0. Nebraska: 2. Iowa: 0. Oregon: 0. Northwestern: 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.

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Buffalo: 0 by 10. Northwestern State: 1 by 4.2. California: 3 by 12.5. Rutgers: 7 by 29.2. Ohio State: 6 by 35. Purdue: 4 by 16.7. Nebraska: 8 by 53.3. Iowa: 3 by 12.5. Oregon: 1 by 4.2. Northwestern: 4 by 26.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.6 · Games = 5 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 5 · -0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Nebraska

Best efficiency game

53.3 vs Nebraska

Result
Sat 11/22@ NorthwesternL 35-3843001
Sat 11/15@ OregonL 13-4210000
Sat 10/25@ IowaL 3-4132000
Sat 10/18vs NebraskaSplash gameW 24-685001
Sat 10/11vs PurdueW 27-2041000
Sat 10/4@ Ohio StateL 3-4263100
Sat 9/27vs RutgersW 31-2875000
Sun 9/14@ CaliforniaL 14-2732000
Sat 9/6vs Northwestern StateW 66-011000
Fri 8/29vs BuffaloW 23-1000001

Player Story

Za'Quan Bryan story

Za'Quan Bryan built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Savannah, GA wearing No. 4, spending time with Minnesota. The clearest part of Za'Quan Bryan's career was his defensive production: 58 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 1 interception, and 9 passes defended across 21 career games in the available record. That gives Za'Quan Bryan's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Minnesota

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20232023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 PostseasonMinnesota19.21
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota19.210
2024 PostseasonMinnesota716.62.56
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota716.62.50
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota520.44.1-2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 46 Nebraska

Week 8 · W 24-6 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

75 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75 takeover score.

#2

@ Virginia Tech

Week 1 · W 24-10 · Postseason

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

@ No. 2 Ohio State

Week 6 · L 3-42 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

61.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Iowa

Week 4 · L 14-31 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

52.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 52.5 takeover score.

#5

vs North Carolina

Week 1 · L 17-19

2

Havoc Plays

43.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Minnesota

7 primary output · 16.6 efficiency · 2.5 usage

38.1

#2

2024 Regular Season · Minnesota

38.1

7 primary · 16.6 efficiency · 2.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

34.9

5 primary · 20.4 efficiency · 4.1 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games