Player Dossier

2024-2025

Texas

Colin Simmons

LB • 6'3" • 240 lbs • Dallas, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Colin Simmons shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 49.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

72%

Major defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

97

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

88

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Texas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Texas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Player Story

Colin Simmons built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Dallas, TX wearing No. 1, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Colin Simmons' career was his defensive production: 91...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9932

Duncanville · Duncanville, TX

Committed To
Texas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Colin Simmons, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Texas. Colin Simmons shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 49.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
91
TFL
29.5
Sacks
21
QB hurries
24
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Colin Simmons quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas · LB
Career Tackles
91
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 4 entries · 26 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Texas
Top game
Mississippi State
Recruit profile
5-star · Duncanville · Texas
High school pipeline
Duncanville · 60 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 1 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
43 tackles · LB 345th (top 28%) · SEC 106th (top 14%) · National 813th (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 PostseasonTexas14101.5112067.9
2024 Regular SeasonTexas143812.588-067.9
2025 PostseasonTexas12221--079.9
2025 Regular SeasonTexas124113.511152079.9

Related Context

Colin Simmons played LB for Texas. Across 2 tracked seasons, Colin Simmons recorded 91 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Texas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Texas paired 44.5 primary output with 49.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 39.3 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: Mississippi State

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

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Season Workbench

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2024 Postseason · Texas

Games

14

Havoc Plays / G

2.5

Efficiency

39.3

Usage

10.7

Consistency

64.6

Best Game by takeover score

Mississippi State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ohio State: 2. Arizona State: 2. Clemson: 2.5. Colorado State: 1. Michigan: 3. UTSA: 4. UL Monroe: 1. Mississippi State: 5. Oklahoma: 1.5. Florida: 1. Arkansas: 4. Kentucky: 5. Texas A&M: 0. Georgia: 3

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. Ohio State: 4 by 36.7. Arizona State: 5 by 40.8. Clemson: 1 by 29.2. Colorado State: 2 by 18.3. Michigan: 1 by 34.2. UTSA: 6 by 65. UL Monroe: 2 by 18.3. Mississippi State: 7 by 79.2. Oklahoma: 5 by 35.8. Florida: 3 by 22.5. Arkansas: 3 by 52.5. Kentucky: 2 by 58.3. Texas A&M: 5 by 20.8. Georgia: 2 by 38.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.5 · Games = 12 · +0 vs Losses
Losses2.5 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

14 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Mississippi State

Best efficiency game

79.2 vs Mississippi State

Result
Sat 1/11vs Ohio StateSplash gameL 14-2842002
Wed 1/1@ Arizona StateSplash gameW 39-3152110
Sat 12/21vs ClemsonSplash gameW 38-24100.50010
Sat 12/7vs GeorgiaSplash gameL 19-2222110
Sun 12/1@ Texas A&MW 17-754000
Sat 11/23vs KentuckySplash gameW 31-1422210
Sat 11/16@ Arkansas2+ sacks · Splash gameW 20-1033220
Sat 11/9vs FloridaW 49-1731000
Sat 10/12@ OklahomaW 34-3521.5000
Sat 9/28vs Mississippi State2+ sacks · Splash gameW 35-1376320
Sun 9/22vs UL MonroeW 51-320000
Sat 9/14vs UTSASplash gameW 56-764210
Sat 9/7@ MichiganSplash gameW 31-1211110
Sat 8/31vs Colorado StateW 52-022000

Player Story

Colin Simmons story

Colin Simmons built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Dallas, TX wearing No. 1, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Colin Simmons' career was his defensive production: 91 tackles, 29.5 tackles for loss, 21 sacks, and 1 interception across 26 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Texas. 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 Colin Simmons' production has multiple signals. With 26 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Texas.

The arc is straightforward: Colin Simmons 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

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    Texas

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonTexas3539.310.7
2024 Regular SeasonTexas3539.310.70
2025 PostseasonTexas44.549.117.19.5
2025 Regular SeasonTexas44.549.117.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Mississippi State

Week 5 · W 35-13 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

5

Havoc Plays

93.1 takeover

5 disruption/tackle impact with 93.1 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 53 Arkansas

Week 13 · W 52-37 · Conference game

6.5

Havoc Plays

90.3 takeover

Win with 6.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6.5 disruption/tackle impact with 90.3 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 66 Kentucky

Week 8 · W 16-13 · Conference game

6

Havoc Plays

86.3 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 86.3 takeover score.

#4

vs Kentucky

Week 13 · W 31-14 · Conference game

5

Havoc Plays

86.1 takeover

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 86.1 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 9 Texas A&M

Week 14 · W 27-17 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

6

Havoc Plays

84.9 takeover

Win with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6 disruption/tackle impact with 84.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Texas

44.5 primary output · 49.1 efficiency · 17.1 usage

79.9

#2

2025 Regular Season · Texas

79.9

44.5 primary · 49.1 efficiency · 17.1 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Texas

67.9

35 primary · 39.3 efficiency · 10.7 usage

Milestones

14

Impact games

19

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games