Player Dossier

2024-2025

Auburn

Xavier Atkins

LB • 6'0" • 210 lbs • Houston, TX, USA

High-volume tacklerDown-to-down presence

Xavier Atkins shows a high-volume tackler profile with 55.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

77

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

90

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Auburn

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
LSU • Auburn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Player Story

Xavier Atkins built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Houston, TX wearing No. 17, spending time with Auburn and LSU. The clearest part of Xavier Atkins' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9025

Summer Creek · Humble, TX

Committed To
LSU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Xavier Atkins, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Auburn. Xavier Atkins shows a high-volume tackler profile with 55.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
87
TFL
17
Sacks
9
QB hurries
7
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Xavier Atkins quick answers

Latest team and position
Auburn · LB
Career Tackles
87
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 14 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Auburn
Top game
Arkansas
Recruit profile
4-star · Summer Creek · LSU
High school pipeline
Summer Creek · 16 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 17 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
84 tackles · LB 92nd (top 8%) · SEC 7th (top 1%) · National 123rd (top 2%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonLSU23-0--038.1
2025 Regular SeasonAuburn128417971078.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025LSU to AuburnP4 to P479.8Dec 19, 2024

Xavier Atkins played LB for LSU and Auburn. Across 2 tracked seasons, Xavier Atkins recorded 87 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Auburn.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Auburn paired 35 primary output with 55.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 55.5 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across LSU, Auburn.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Win with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Auburn

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

2.9

Efficiency

55.5

Usage

18.3

Consistency

57.2

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Baylor: 1. Ball State: 6. South Alabama: 0. Oklahoma: 0. Texas A&M: 4. Georgia: 4. Missouri: 5. Arkansas: 7. Kentucky: 1. Vanderbilt: 2. Mercer: 1. Alabama: 4

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. Baylor: 5 by 30.8. Ball State: 5 by 70.8. South Alabama: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma: 7 by 29.2. Texas A&M: 10 by 81.7. Georgia: 8 by 73.3. Missouri: 11 by 95.8. Arkansas: 13 by 100. Kentucky: 8 by 43.3. Vanderbilt: 9 by 57.5. Mercer: 3 by 22.5. Alabama: 3 by 52.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins3 · Games = 5 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses2.9 · Games = 7 · -0.1 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

Arkansas

Best efficiency game

100 vs Arkansas

Result
Sun 11/30vs AlabamaSplash gameL 20-27321.501.500
Sat 11/22vs MercerW 62-1731000
Sat 11/8@ VanderbiltSplash gameL 38-45951.500.500
Sat 11/1vs KentuckyL 3-1087100
Sat 10/25@ Arkansas10+ tackles · 2+ sacksW 33-24139420
Sat 10/18vs Missouri10+ tackles · 2+ sacksL 17-231110220
Sat 10/11vs GeorgiaSplash gameL 10-2086101
Sat 9/27@ Texas A&M10+ tackles · Splash gameL 10-161062110
Sat 9/20@ OklahomaL 17-2474000
Sat 9/13vs South AlabamaW 31-1521000
Sat 9/6vs Ball State2+ sacks · Splash gameW 42-355420
Sat 8/30@ BaylorW 38-2454000

Player Story

Xavier Atkins story

Xavier Atkins built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Houston, TX wearing No. 17, spending time with Auburn and LSU. The clearest part of Xavier Atkins' career was his defensive production: 87 tackles, 17 tackles for loss, 9 sacks, and 1 interception across 14 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Auburn. 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 Xavier Atkins' production has multiple signals. With 14 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Auburn and LSU.

The arc is straightforward: Xavier Atkins 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

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    LSU

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Auburn

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonLSU06.31
2025 Regular SeasonAuburn3555.518.335

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 53 Arkansas

Week 9 · W 33-24 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

7

Havoc Plays

100 takeover

7 disruption/tackle impact with 100 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 21 Missouri

Week 8 · L 17-23 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

5

Havoc Plays

89.1 takeover

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 89.1 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 132 Ball State

Week 2 · W 42-3

6

Havoc Plays

85.5 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 85.5 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 9 Texas A&M

Week 5 · L 10-16 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

4

Havoc Plays

79.6 takeover

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 79.6 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 6 Georgia

Week 7 · L 10-20 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

4

Havoc Plays

76.8 takeover

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 76.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Auburn

35 primary output · 55.5 efficiency · 18.3 usage

78.2

#2

2024 Regular Season · LSU

38.1

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

7

Splash games

3

10+ tackle games