Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Tennessee paired 189 primary output with 59.7 efficiency.
Player Stats
Jake Merklinger College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Total offense
- 259
- Passing yards
- 221
- Rushing yards
- 38
- Touchdowns
- 2
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Total Offense | Pass Yds | Rush Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Tennessee | 2 | 70 | 48 | 22 | 0 | 52.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Tennessee | 3 | 189 | 173 | 16 | 2 | 56.3 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
pass-led usage with 59.7 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: East Tennessee State
Win with 135 yards of offense and 79.9 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Regular Season · Tennessee
Games
3
Primary Metric / G
63
Efficiency
59.7
Usage
4.6
Consistency
55.5
Best Game by takeover score
East Tennessee State
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. East Tennessee State: 135. UAB: 56. New Mexico State: -2
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. East Tennessee State: 16 by 79.9. UAB: 10 by 49.2. New Mexico State: 2 by 50
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half95.5 · Games = 2 · +97.5 vs Second Half
Second Half-2 · Games = 1 · -97.5 vs First Half
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