Player Dossier

2022-2025

South Florida

Rocco Nicholl

LB • 6'4" • 238 lbs • Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Rocco Nicholl shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.7 disruption score.

Usage Score

1.5

Efficiency

9.7

Consistency

100

Season Value

37.1

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kent State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Kent State • South Florida
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: St. Francis (PA)

Scouting Read

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Rocco Nicholl, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kent State. Rocco Nicholl shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.7 disruption score.

Rocco Nicholl played LB for Kent State and South Florida. Across 4 tracked seasons, Rocco Nicholl recorded 93 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Kent State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Kent State paired 5.5 primary output with 37.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 9.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Kent State, South Florida.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Old Dominion

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · South Florida

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

9.7

Usage

1.5

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Old Dominion

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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. Old Dominion: 0. Boise State: 0. South Carolina State: 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. Old Dominion: 5 by 20.8. Boise State: 1 by 4.2. South Carolina State: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Old Dominion

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Old Dominion

Result
Wed 12/17vs Old DominionL 10-2452000
Sat 9/20vs South Carolina StateW 63-1411000
Thu 8/28vs Boise StateW 34-710000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Kent State

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    South Florida

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonKent State213.34.5
2023 Regular SeasonKent State210.12.10
2024 Regular SeasonKent State5.537.66.53.5
2025 PostseasonSouth Florida09.71.5-5.5
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Florida09.71.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

St. Francis (PA)

Loss with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5

Primary metric

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 65.4 takeover score.

#2

Ball State

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 51.6 takeover score.

#3

Miami (OH)

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.7 takeover score.

#4

Long Island University

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.3 takeover score.

#5

Eastern Michigan

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 25.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Kent State

5.5 primary output · 37.6 efficiency · 6.5 usage

39.1

#2

2025 Postseason · South Florida

37.1

0 primary · 9.7 efficiency · 1.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · South Florida

37.1

0 primary · 9.7 efficiency · 1.5 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

2

Splash games

4

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit context is not available for this player in the current dataset.

Career Facts

2

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

93

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 24 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.

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