Player Dossier

2024-2025

Nebraska

Caleb Benning

DB • 5'11" • 200 lbs • Omaha, NE, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Caleb Benning shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

72%

Major defensive role

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Impact Production

91

Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive back

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

69

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Nebraska
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Utah

Player Story

Caleb Benning built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive back from Omaha, NE wearing No. 28, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Caleb Benning's career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8811

Westside · Omaha, NE

Committed To
Nebraska
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Caleb Benning, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska. Caleb Benning shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
24

Quick Answers

Caleb Benning quick answers

Latest team and position
Nebraska · DB
Career Tackles
24
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 4 entries · 8 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Nebraska
Top game
Utah
Recruit profile
3-star · Westside · Nebraska
High school pipeline
Westside · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 28 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
20 tackles · DB 429th (top 44%) · Big Ten 241st (top 31%) · National 2,021st (top 33%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 PostseasonNebraska23-0--040.4
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska21-0--040.4
2025 PostseasonNebraska613-0--044.1
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska67-0--044.1

Related Context

Caleb Benning played DB for Nebraska. Across 2 tracked seasons, Caleb Benning recorded 24 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Nebraska.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Nebraska paired 0 primary output with 13.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 13.2 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: Utah

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

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2025 Postseason · Nebraska

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

13.2

Usage

2.3

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Utah

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah: 0. Akron: 0. Houston Christian: 0. Maryland: 0. Northwestern: 0. UCLA: 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. Utah: 13 by 50. Akron: 2 by 8.3. Houston Christian: 3 by 12.5. Northwestern: 1 by 4.2. UCLA: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Utah

Best efficiency game

50 vs Utah

Result
Wed 12/31@ Utah10+ tacklesL 22-44134000
Sun 11/9@ UCLAW 28-2111000
Sat 10/25vs NorthwesternW 28-2110000
Sat 10/11@ MarylandW 34-31
Sat 9/13vs Houston ChristianW 59-732000
Sat 9/6vs AkronW 68-021000

Player Story

Caleb Benning story

Caleb Benning built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive back from Omaha, NE wearing No. 28, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Caleb Benning's career was his defensive production: 24 tackles across 8 career games in the available record. His career also includes 25 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Caleb Benning's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Nebraska

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonNebraska08.41.5
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska08.41.50
2025 PostseasonNebraska013.22.30
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska013.22.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 8 Utah

Week 1 · L 22-44 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

38.3 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 38.3 takeover score.

#2

vs Houston Christian

Week 3 · W 59-7

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Havoc Plays

11.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Boston College

Week 1 · W 20-15 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

10.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.8 takeover score.

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vs No. 117 Akron

Week 2 · W 68-0

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Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 51 Northwestern

Week 9 · W 28-21 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Nebraska

0 primary output · 13.2 efficiency · 2.3 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Nebraska

44.1

0 primary · 13.2 efficiency · 2.3 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Nebraska

40.4

0 primary · 8.4 efficiency · 1.5 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games