Player Dossier

2023-2025

Oklahoma State

Ike Esonwune

LB • 6'0" • 225 lbs • Austin, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ike Esonwune shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

23%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

28

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

16

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

47

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

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

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Oklahoma State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCF

Player Story

Ike Esonwune built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Austin, TX wearing No. 25, spending time with Oklahoma State. The clearest part of Ike Esonwune's career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8411

Manor · Manor, TX

Committed To
Oklahoma State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Ike Esonwune, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma State. Ike Esonwune shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
29
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Ike Esonwune quick answers

Latest team and position
Oklahoma State · LB
Career Tackles
29
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 12 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma State
Top game
UCF
Recruit profile
3-star · Manor · Oklahoma State
High school pipeline
Manor · 14 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 25 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
28 tackles · LB 492nd (top 39%) · Big 12 166th (top 23%) · National 1,489th (top 24%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonOklahoma State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma State11-0--036.4
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State1128-021035.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Oklahoma State to UABP4 to G5/FCS78.4Jan 13, 2026

Ike Esonwune played LB for Oklahoma State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Ike Esonwune recorded 29 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oklahoma State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Oklahoma State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 13.3 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: UCF

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

13.3

Usage

2.6

Consistency

6.1

Best Game by takeover score

UCF

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Oregon: 0. Tulsa: 1. Baylor: 0. Arizona: 0. Houston: 0. Cincinnati: 0. Texas Tech: 0. Kansas: 0. Kansas State: 0. UCF: 2. Iowa 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. Oregon: 1 by 4.2. Tulsa: 2 by 18.3. Baylor: 2 by 8.3. Arizona: 2 by 8.3. Houston: 4 by 16.7. Cincinnati: 2 by 8.3. Kansas: 2 by 8.3. Kansas State: 3 by 12.5. UCF: 6 by 45. Iowa State: 4 by 16.7

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.2 · Games = 6 · -0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half0.4 · Games = 5 · +0.2 vs First Half

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UCF

Best efficiency game

45 vs UCF

Result
Sat 11/29vs Iowa StateL 13-2043000
Sat 11/22@ UCFSplash gameL 14-1760001
Sat 11/15vs Kansas StateL 6-1431000
Sat 11/1@ KansasL 21-3821000
Sat 10/25@ Texas TechL 0-42
Sun 10/19vs CincinnatiL 17-4920000
Sat 10/11vs HoustonL 17-3942000
Sat 10/4@ ArizonaL 13-4120000
Sat 9/27vs BaylorL 27-4521000
Fri 9/19vs TulsaL 12-1922000
Sat 9/6@ OregonL 3-6911000

Player Story

Ike Esonwune story

Ike Esonwune built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Austin, TX wearing No. 25, spending time with Oklahoma State. The clearest part of Ike Esonwune's career was his defensive production: 29 tackles and 1 pass defended across 12 career games in the available record. That gives Ike Esonwune's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Oklahoma State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonOklahoma State0
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma State04.20.60
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State313.32.63

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 76 UCF

Week 13 · L 14-17 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

70.8 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 104 Tulsa

Week 4 · L 12-19

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Havoc Plays

36.9 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.9 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 33 Iowa State

Week 14 · L 13-20 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

14.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.5 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 40 Houston

Week 7 · L 17-39 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

12.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.2 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 42 Kansas State

Week 12 · L 6-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

11.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

36.4

#2

2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

35.2

3 primary · 13.3 efficiency · 2.6 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games