Player Dossier

2023-2025

Baylor

LeVar Thornton Jr.

CB • 6'3" • 182 lbs • Fort Worth, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

LeVar Thornton Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18 disruption score.

Usage / Role

41%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

45

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

42

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

64

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Baylor

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Snapshot

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

Player Story

LeVar Thornton Jr. built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Fort Worth, TX wearing No. 25, spending time with Baylor. The clearest part of LeVar Thornton Jr.'s career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8997

Timber Creek · Keller, TX

Committed To
Baylor
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

LeVar Thornton Jr., CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Baylor. LeVar Thornton Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
39
TFL
0.5
Passes defended
7

Quick Answers

LeVar Thornton Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Baylor · CB
Career Tackles
39
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 21 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Baylor
Top game
Oklahoma State
Recruit profile
4-star · Timber Creek · Baylor
High school pipeline
Timber Creek · 8 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 25 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
27 tackles · CB 138th (top 30%) · Big 12 176th (top 25%) · National 1,595th (top 26%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonBaylor24-0--040.5
2024 PostseasonBaylor82-0--09.2
2024 Regular SeasonBaylor86-0--09.2
2025 Regular SeasonBaylor11270.50-7049.6

Related Context

LeVar Thornton Jr. played CB for Baylor. Across 3 tracked seasons, LeVar Thornton Jr. recorded 39 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Baylor.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Baylor paired 8.5 primary output with 18 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 18 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: Samford

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 · Baylor

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

18

Usage

2.5

Consistency

59.7

Best Game by takeover score

Samford

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Auburn: 0. SMU: 0. Samford: 2. Arizona State: 0. Kansas State: 1.5. TCU: 1. Cincinnati: 1. UCF: 1. Utah: 1. Arizona: 1. Houston: 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. Auburn: 2 by 8.3. SMU: 1 by 4.2. Samford: 1 by 24.2. Arizona State: 2 by 8.3. Kansas State: 3 by 27.5. TCU: 3 by 22.5. Cincinnati: 9 by 47.5. UCF: 2 by 18.3. Utah: 0 by 10. Arizona: 3 by 22.5. Houston: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.1 · Games = 4 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 7 · -0.6 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

Samford

Best efficiency game

47.5 vs Cincinnati

Result
Sat 11/29vs HoustonL 24-3111000
Sat 11/22@ ArizonaL 17-4131001
Sun 11/16vs UtahL 28-5500001
Sat 11/1vs UCFW 30-322001
Sat 10/25@ CincinnatiL 20-4195001
Sat 10/18@ TCUL 36-4233001
Sat 10/4vs Kansas StateW 35-34320.5001
Sat 9/20vs Arizona StateL 24-2722000
Sat 9/13vs SamfordSplash gameW 42-7110011
Sat 9/6@ SMUW 48-4511000
Sat 8/30vs AuburnL 24-3822000

Player Story

LeVar Thornton Jr. story

LeVar Thornton Jr. built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Fort Worth, TX wearing No. 25, spending time with Baylor. The clearest part of LeVar Thornton Jr.'s career was his defensive production: 39 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, 2 interceptions, and 7 passes defended across 21 career games in the available record. That gives LeVar Thornton Jr.'s career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Baylor

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonBaylor08.31.6
2024 PostseasonBaylor16.71.71
2024 Regular SeasonBaylor16.71.70
2025 Regular SeasonBaylor8.5182.57.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Oklahoma State

Week 9 · W 38-28 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

59.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Samford

Week 3 · W 42-7

2

Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 42 Kansas State

Week 6 · W 35-34 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

48.9 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 56 Cincinnati

Week 9 · L 20-41 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 28 Arizona

Week 13 · L 17-41 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

31.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 31.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Baylor

8.5 primary output · 18 efficiency · 2.5 usage

49.6

#2

2023 Regular Season · Baylor

40.5

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.6 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Baylor

9.2

1 primary · 6.7 efficiency · 1.7 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games