Usage / Role
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Major defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Ohio State
Sonny Styles
LB • 6'4" • 243 lbs • Pickerington, OH, USA
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Sonny Styles shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 35.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
87
Elite ceiling indicators
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Ohio State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Ohio State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern
Player Story
Sonny Styles built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Pickerington, OH wearing No. 6, spending time with Ohio State. The clearest part of Sonny Styles' career was his defensive production:...
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- Committed To
- Ohio State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2026
- Selection
- Round 1 · Pick 7
- Overall
- No. 7
- NFL Team
- Washington
Sonny Styles, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Ohio State. Sonny Styles shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 35.8 disruption score.
Quick Answers
Sonny Styles quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Ohio State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 243
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 7 entries · 46 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Ohio State
- Top game
- Northwestern
- Recruit profile
- 5-star · Pickerington Central · Ohio State
- High school pipeline
- Pickerington Central · 39 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2026 · Round 1 · Pick 7 · Washington
- Latest roster
- No. 6 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 83 tackles · LB 98th (top 8%) · Big Ten 21st (top 3%) · National 130th (top 3%)
Sonny Styles played LB for Ohio State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Sonny Styles recorded 243 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Ohio State.
Recognition
Honors
- 20252025 All-Big Ten Coaches · conference_coachesfirst
- 20252025 All-Big Ten Media · conference_mediafirst
- 20242024 All-Big Ten Coaches · conference_coachessecond
- 20242024 All-Big Ten Media · conference_mediahonorable mention
- 20232023 All-Big Ten Coaches · conference_coacheshonorable mention
- 20232023 All-Big Ten Media · conference_mediahonorable mention
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