Player Dossier

2023-2025

Gardner-Webb

Cahari Haynes

LB • 6'1" • 220 lbs • Shelby, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Cahari Haynes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 41.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

19%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

40

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

28

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

58

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Gardner-Webb

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
App State • Gardner-Webb
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Ohio

Player Story

Cahari Haynes built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Shelby, NC wearing No. 24, spending time with App State and Gardner-Webb. The clearest part of Cahari Haynes' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8319

Burns · Lawndale, NC

Committed To
App State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Cahari Haynes, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Gardner-Webb. Cahari Haynes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 41.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
16
TFL
2
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

Cahari Haynes quick answers

Latest team and position
Gardner-Webb · LB
Career Tackles
16
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Gardner-Webb
Top game
Ohio
Recruit profile
3-star · Burns · App State
High school pipeline
Burns · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Freshman

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonApp State22-0--036.5
2024 Regular SeasonApp State71421--039.4
2025 Regular SeasonGardner-Webb20-0--052.6

Related Context

Cahari Haynes played LB for App State and Gardner-Webb. Across 3 tracked seasons, Cahari Haynes recorded 16 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with App State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Gardner-Webb paired 2 primary output with 41.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across App State, Gardner-Webb.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: East Carolina

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

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Season Workbench

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2024 Regular Season · App State

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

12.6

Usage

4.3

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

East Carolina

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. East Tennessee State: 0. Clemson: 0. East Carolina: 2. South Alabama: 0. Marshall: 1. James Madison: 0. Georgia Southern: 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. East Tennessee State: 2 by 8.3. Clemson: 1 by 4.2. East Carolina: 4 by 36.7. South Alabama: 3 by 12.5. Marshall: 3 by 22.5. Georgia Southern: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.4 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

East Carolina

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs East Carolina

Result
Sat 11/30@ Georgia SouthernL 20-2910000
Sat 11/23vs James MadisonW 34-20
Sat 10/5@ MarshallL 37-5232100
Thu 9/19vs South AlabamaL 14-4832000
Sat 9/14@ East CarolinaSplash gameW 21-1942110
Sun 9/8@ ClemsonL 20-6611000
Sat 8/31vs East Tennessee StateW 38-1021000

Player Story

Cahari Haynes story

Cahari Haynes built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Shelby, NC wearing No. 24, spending time with App State and Gardner-Webb. The clearest part of Cahari Haynes' career was his defensive production: 16 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 11 career games in the available record. His career also includes 30 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Cahari Haynes' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    App State

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Gardner-Webb

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonApp State04.20.6
2024 Regular SeasonApp State312.64.33
2025 Regular SeasonGardner-Webb241.3-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 84 Ohio

Week 4

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

82.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 82.9 takeover score.

#2

@ East Carolina

Week 3 · W 21-19

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#3

@ Marshall

Week 6 · L 37-52 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

53.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.6 takeover score.

#4

vs South Alabama

Week 4 · L 14-48 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.7 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 35 Georgia Tech

Week 2

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Havoc Plays

8.4 takeover

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Gardner-Webb

2 primary output · 41.3 efficiency · usage

52.6

#2

2024 Regular Season · App State

39.4

3 primary · 12.6 efficiency · 4.3 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · App State

36.5

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games