Player Dossier

2023-2025

Iowa State

Kooper Ebel

LB • 6'4" • 235 lbs • Hartley, IA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kooper Ebel shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

88%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

95

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

75

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

86

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Iowa State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

Player Story

Kooper Ebel built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Hartley, IA wearing No. 47, spending time with Iowa State. The clearest part of Kooper Ebel's career was his defensive production: 149...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8664

Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn · Hartley, IA

Committed To
Iowa State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Kooper Ebel, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Iowa State. Kooper Ebel shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
149
TFL
14
Sacks
2
QB hurries
6
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Kooper Ebel quick answers

Latest team and position
Iowa State · LB
Career Tackles
149
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 29 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Iowa State
Top game
Oklahoma State
Recruit profile
3-star · Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn · Iowa State
High school pipeline
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 47 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
77 tackles · LB 128th (top 11%) · Big 12 22nd (top 4%) · National 186th (top 3%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonIowa State33-0--036.9
2024 PostseasonIowa State146-0--042.2
2024 Regular SeasonIowa State1463611-042.2
2025 Regular SeasonIowa State12778153066

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Iowa State to Penn StateP4 to P479.8Jan 5, 2026

Kooper Ebel played LB for Iowa State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Kooper Ebel recorded 149 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Iowa State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Iowa State paired 17 primary output with 40.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 40.9 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 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

1.4

Efficiency

40.9

Usage

10.6

Consistency

34.6

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. South Dakota: 0.5. Kansas State: 2. Iowa: 1. Arkansas State: 0. Arizona: 0. Cincinnati: 0. Colorado: 1. BYU: 1.5. Arizona State: 4. TCU: 1. Kansas: 1. Oklahoma State: 5

Volume vs Efficiency

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

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. South Dakota: 2 by 13.3. Kansas State: 5 by 40.8. Iowa: 6 by 35. Arkansas State: 5 by 20.8. Arizona: 7 by 29.2. Cincinnati: 5 by 20.8. Colorado: 6 by 35. BYU: 6 by 40. Arizona State: 9 by 77.5. TCU: 11 by 55.8. Kansas: 5 by 30.8. Oklahoma State: 10 by 91.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.3 · Games = 8 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses1.6 · Games = 4 · +0.3 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

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

91.7 vs Oklahoma State

Result
Sat 11/29@ Oklahoma State10+ tackles · Splash gameW 20-13108301
Sat 11/22vs KansasW 38-1451001
Sat 11/8@ TCU10+ tacklesW 20-17114100
Sat 11/1vs Arizona StateSplash gameL 19-2495101
Sat 10/25vs BYUL 27-41620.5000
Sat 10/11@ ColoradoL 17-2463100
Sat 10/4@ CincinnatiL 30-3853000
Sat 9/27vs ArizonaW 39-1474000
Sat 9/13@ Arkansas StateW 24-1655000
Sat 9/6vs IowaW 16-1360000
Sat 8/30vs South DakotaW 55-7200.5000
Sat 8/23@ Kansas StateSplash gameW 24-2153110

Player Story

Kooper Ebel story

Kooper Ebel built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Hartley, IA wearing No. 47, spending time with Iowa State. The clearest part of Kooper Ebel's career was his defensive production: 149 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 29 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Iowa State. 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 Kooper Ebel's production has multiple signals. With 29 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Iowa State.

The arc is straightforward: Kooper Ebel 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

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    Iowa State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonIowa State04.20.8
2024 PostseasonIowa State826.37.78
2024 Regular SeasonIowa State826.37.70
2025 Regular SeasonIowa State1740.910.69

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 121 Oklahoma State

Week 14 · W 20-13 · Conference game

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

97.2 takeover

5 disruption/tackle impact with 97.2 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 60 Arizona State

Week 10 · L 19-24 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

85.8 takeover

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 85.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Arkansas State

Week 4 · W 52-7

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Havoc Plays

81.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.

#4

@ Houston

Week 5 · W 20-0 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

75.8 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 75.8 takeover score.

#5

vs Baylor

Week 6 · W 43-21 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

74.4 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 74.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

17 primary output · 40.9 efficiency · 10.6 usage

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#2

2024 Postseason · Iowa State

42.2

8 primary · 26.3 efficiency · 7.7 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Iowa State

42.2

8 primary · 26.3 efficiency · 7.7 usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

4

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games