Usage / Role
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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Central Michigan
Keshawn Hayden
DL • 6'3" • 250 lbs • Saint Louis, MO, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Keshawn Hayden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
100
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 Postseason · Central Michigan
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Central Michigan
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern
Player Story
Keshawn Hayden built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Saint Louis, MO wearing No. 49, spending time with Central Michigan. The clearest part of Keshawn Hayden's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Central Michigan
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Keshawn Hayden, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Central Michigan. Keshawn Hayden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 24
- TFL
- 3.5
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 8
Quick Answers
Keshawn Hayden quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Central Michigan · DL
- Career Tackles
- 24
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 19 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Central Michigan
- Top game
- Northwestern
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · East St. Louis · Central Michigan
- High school pipeline
- East St. Louis · 40 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 49 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · DL 490th (top 46%) · Mid-American 227th (top 40%) · National 2,453rd (top 40%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Central Michigan | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Central Michigan | 6 | 7 | 1.5 | 0 | 3 | - | 0 | 35.4 |
| 2025 Postseason | Central Michigan | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | 42.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Central Michigan | 11 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | 0 | 42.3 |
Related Context
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Keshawn Hayden played DL for Central Michigan. Across 3 tracked seasons, Keshawn Hayden recorded 24 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Central Michigan.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Central Michigan paired 9 primary output with 13.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 13.9 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: Northwestern
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 Postseason · Central Michigan
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
13.9
Usage
4.8
Consistency
15.2
Best Game by takeover score
Northwestern
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Northwestern: 3. San José State: 0. Pittsburgh: 0. Michigan: 0. Wagner: 0. Eastern Michigan: 0. Akron: 1. Bowling Green: 2. Massachusetts: 2. Buffalo: 0. Kent State: 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. Northwestern: 2 by 38.3. San José State: 2 by 8.3. Pittsburgh: 1 by 4.2. Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Wagner: 1 by 4.2. Eastern Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Akron: 0 by 10. Bowling Green: 1 by 24.2. Massachusetts: 2 by 28.3. Buffalo: 1 by 4.2. Kent State: 2 by 18.3
Split Comparison
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Wins0.7 · Games = 7 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Northwestern
Best efficiency game
38.3 vs Northwestern
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12/26 | @ NorthwesternSplash game | L 7-34 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 11/20 | @ Kent State | W 28-16 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 11/13 | vs Buffalo | W 38-19 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs MassachusettsSplash game | W 38-13 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Bowling GreenSplash game | W 27-6 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Akron | L 22-28 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs Eastern Michigan | W 24-13 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs Wagner | W 49-10 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | @ Michigan | L 3-63 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Pittsburgh | L 17-45 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | @ San José State | W 16-14 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Keshawn Hayden story
Keshawn Hayden built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Saint Louis, MO wearing No. 49, spending time with Central Michigan. The clearest part of Keshawn Hayden's career was his defensive production: 24 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Keshawn Hayden's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Central Michigan
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Central Michigan | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Central Michigan | 4.5 | 12.4 | 3.2 | 4.5 |
| 2025 Postseason | Central Michigan | 9 | 13.9 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Central Michigan | 9 | 13.9 | 4.8 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 51 Northwestern
Week 1 · L 7-34 · Postseason
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
79.4 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.4 takeover score.
#2
@ Eastern Michigan
Week 8 · L 34-38 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
56.4 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 56.4 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 113 Bowling Green
Week 8 · W 27-6 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
55.3 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 55.3 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 136 Massachusetts
Week 9 · W 38-13 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
48.9 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.
#5
@ Illinois
Week 3 · L 9-30
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Havoc Plays
34.7 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Central Michigan
9 primary output · 13.9 efficiency · 4.8 usage
42.3
#2
2025 Regular Season · Central Michigan
42.3
9 primary · 13.9 efficiency · 4.8 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Central Michigan
37.1
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
4
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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