Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Kentucky
Tavion Gadson
DL • 6'5" • 298 lbs • Savannah, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Tavion Gadson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
65
Solid production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
47
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
77
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Kentucky
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: South Carolina
Player Story
Tavion Gadson built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Savannah, GA wearing No. 94, spending time with Kentucky. The clearest part of Tavion Gadson's career was his defensive...
Read the storyTavion Gadson, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky. Tavion Gadson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 23.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 30
- TFL
- 4.5
- Sacks
- 3
- QB hurries
- 3
Quick Answers
Tavion Gadson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kentucky · DL
- Career Tackles
- 30
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
- Top game
- South Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Jenkins · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 94 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 28 tackles · DL 206th (top 20%) · SEC 180th (top 24%) · National 1,536th (top 25%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Kentucky | 2 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | - | - | 0 | 22.4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kentucky | 9 | 28 | 4 | 2.5 | 3 | - | 0 | 53.7 |
Related Context
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Tavion Gadson played DL for Kentucky. Across 3 tracked seasons, Tavion Gadson recorded 30 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kentucky.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Kentucky paired 9.5 primary output with 23.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 23.5 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: South Carolina
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
1.1
Efficiency
23.5
Usage
7.3
Consistency
30.6
Best Game by takeover score
South Carolina
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Toledo: 1. Ole Miss: 0.5. Eastern Michigan: 0. South Carolina: 3. Georgia: 0. Texas: 2. Tennessee: 0. Auburn: 3. Louisville: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Toledo: 3 by 22.5. Ole Miss: 3 by 17.5. Eastern Michigan: 2 by 8.3. South Carolina: 4 by 46.7. Georgia: 4 by 16.7. Texas: 4 by 36.7. Tennessee: 3 by 12.5. Auburn: 2 by 38.3. Louisville: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
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Wins1.3 · Games = 3 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 6 · -0.4 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
South Carolina
Best efficiency game
46.7 vs South Carolina
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | @ Louisville | L 0-41 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ AuburnSplash game | W 10-3 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Tennessee | L 34-56 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | vs TexasSplash game | L 13-16 | 4 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Georgia | L 14-35 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | @ South CarolinaSplash game | L 13-35 | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Eastern Michigan | W 48-23 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Ole Miss | L 23-30 | 3 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Toledo | W 24-16 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Tavion Gadson story
Tavion Gadson built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Savannah, GA wearing No. 94, spending time with Kentucky. The clearest part of Tavion Gadson's career was his defensive production: 30 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, and 3 sacks across 11 career games in the available record. That gives Tavion Gadson's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Kentucky
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Kentucky | 1 | 9.2 | 2.4 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kentucky | 0 | — | — | -1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kentucky | 9.5 | 23.5 | 7.3 | 9.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 49 South Carolina
Week 5 · L 13-35 · Conference game
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
82.2 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 29 Auburn
Week 10 · W 10-3 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
64.4 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 64.4 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 17 Texas
Week 8 · L 13-16 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
61.1 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.1 takeover score.
#4
@ Mississippi State
Week 10 · W 24-3 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
49.5 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.5 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 48 Toledo
Week 1 · W 24-16
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Havoc Plays
35 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 35 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
9.5 primary output · 23.5 efficiency · 7.3 usage
53.7
#2
2023 Regular Season · Kentucky
22.4
1 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 2.4 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Kentucky
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
3
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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