Player Dossier

2023-2025

Arkansas State

Jordan Sample

LB • 6'2" • 223 lbs • Missouri City, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jordan Sample shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 3.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

9

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

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

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Arkansas State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Georgia Southern
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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8353

Fort Bend Marshall · Missouri City, TX

Committed To
Arkansas State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Jordan Sample, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Arkansas State. Jordan Sample shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 3.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
8

Quick Answers

Jordan Sample quick answers

Latest team and position
Arkansas State · LB
Career Tackles
8
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Arkansas State
Top game
Georgia Southern
Recruit profile
3-star · Fort Bend Marshall · Arkansas State
High school pipeline
Fort Bend Marshall · 55 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
5 tackles · LB 930th (top 73%) · Sun Belt 394th (top 62%) · National 3,656th (top 59%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonArkansas State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas State33-0--037.2
2025 PostseasonArkansas State60-0--036
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas State65-0--036

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Arkansas State to Texas StateG5/FCS to G5/FCS77.7Jan 21, 2026

Jordan Sample played LB for Arkansas State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Jordan Sample recorded 8 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Arkansas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Arkansas State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 3.5 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: Georgia Southern

Win 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 · Arkansas State

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

3.5

Usage

0.5

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Georgia Southern

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Missouri State: 0. Southeast Missouri State: 0. Georgia Southern: 0. Troy: 0. Southern Miss: 0. App 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. Southeast Missouri State: 1 by 4.2. Georgia Southern: 2 by 8.3. Troy: 1 by 4.2. Southern Miss: 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

Georgia Southern

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Georgia Southern

Result
Fri 12/19vs Missouri StateW 34-28
Sat 11/29@ App StateW 30-29
Sat 11/8vs Southern MissL 21-2710000
Sun 11/2@ TroyW 23-1011000
Sat 10/25vs Georgia SouthernW 34-2421000
Sat 8/30vs Southeast Missouri StateW 42-2410000

Career Arc

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    Arkansas State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonArkansas State0
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas State04.20.90
2025 PostseasonArkansas State03.50.50
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas State03.50.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 103 Georgia Southern

Week 9 · W 34-24 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

#2

@ Louisiana

Week 11 · L 19-55 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.5 takeover score.

#3

vs South Alabama

Week 6 · W 18-16 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#4

vs Central Arkansas

Week 1 · W 34-31

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 87 Troy

Week 10 · W 23-10 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Arkansas State

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

37.2

#2

2025 Postseason · Arkansas State

36

0 primary · 3.5 efficiency · 0.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Arkansas State

36

0 primary · 3.5 efficiency · 0.5 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games