Player Dossier

2024-2025

Florida Atlantic

Eric Brantley Jr.

DE • 6'0" • 235 lbs • Valdosta, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Eric Brantley Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

26%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

42

Developing production for an edge defender

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Reliability

25

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

63

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Florida Atlantic
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Rice

Player Story

Eric Brantley Jr. built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive end from Valdosta, GA wearing No. 10, spending time with Florida Atlantic. The clearest part of Eric Brantley Jr.'s career was his...

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Eric Brantley Jr., DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic. Eric Brantley Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
32
TFL
4
Sacks
1.5
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Eric Brantley Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Florida Atlantic · DE
Career Tackles
32
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 16 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic
Top game
Rice
High school pipeline
Valdosta · 30 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 10 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
20 tackles · DE 106th (top 38%) · American Athletic 209th (top 33%) · National 2,032nd (top 33%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic7121.50--016.5
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic9202.51.52-051.4

Related Context

Eric Brantley Jr. played DE for Florida Atlantic. Across 2 tracked seasons, Eric Brantley Jr. recorded 32 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Florida Atlantic.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Florida Atlantic paired 6 primary output with 15.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 15.9 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: Rice

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

15.9

Usage

6

Consistency

39.8

Best Game by takeover score

Rice

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Florida A&M: 1. Florida International: 0. Memphis: 1. Rice: 2.5. UAB: 0. South Florida: 0. Navy: 0.5. UConn: 1. East Carolina: 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. Florida A&M: 1 by 14.2. Florida International: 2 by 8.3. Memphis: 4 by 26.7. Rice: 4 by 41.7. UAB: 1 by 4.2. South Florida: 2 by 8.3. Navy: 3 by 17.5. UConn: 0 by 10. East Carolina: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.2 · Games = 3 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 6 · -0.8 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

Rice

Best efficiency game

41.7 vs Rice

Result
Sat 11/29vs East CarolinaL 3-4231000
Sat 11/22vs UConnL 45-4800000
Sat 10/25@ NavyL 32-42310.5000
Sat 10/18@ South FloridaL 13-4821000
Sat 10/11vs UABW 53-3310000
Sat 10/4@ RiceSplash gameW 27-21431.5010
Sat 9/27vs MemphisL 26-55410.500.500
Sat 9/13@ Florida InternationalL 28-3822000
Sat 9/6vs Florida A&MW 56-1410000

Player Story

Eric Brantley Jr. story

Eric Brantley Jr. built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive end from Valdosta, GA wearing No. 10, spending time with Florida Atlantic. The clearest part of Eric Brantley Jr.'s career was his defensive production: 32 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks across 16 career games in the available record. That gives Eric Brantley Jr.'s career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Florida Atlantic

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic1.59.32.7
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic615.964.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 120 Rice

Week 6 · W 27-21 · Conference game

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

80.6 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 80.6 takeover score.

#2

@ Temple

Week 12 · L 15-18 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

49.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.5 takeover score.

#3

vs Florida International

Week 3 · W 38-20

0.5

Havoc Plays

47.2 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 46 Navy

Week 9 · L 32-42 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

45.8 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 45.8 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 39 Memphis

Week 5 · L 26-55 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

42 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

6 primary output · 15.9 efficiency · 6 usage

51.4

#2

2024 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

16.5

1.5 primary · 9.3 efficiency · 2.7 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games