Player Dossier

2023-2025

Duquesne

Ish Findlayter

DL • 6'4" • 265 lbs • Toronto, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ish Findlayter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

23

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

50

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

55

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Virginia Tech • Duquesne
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8444

Clarkson Football North · Toronto, ON

Committed To
Virginia Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Ish Findlayter, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Virginia Tech. Ish Findlayter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
2
TFL
1
Sacks
0.5

Quick Answers

Ish Findlayter quick answers

Latest team and position
Duquesne · DL
Career Tackles
2
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 3 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Virginia Tech
Top game
Pittsburgh
Recruit profile
3-star · Clarkson Football North · Virginia Tech
High school pipeline
Clarkson Football North · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 4 · Sophomore

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech1210.5--058.8
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonDuquesne20-0--057.5

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Unlisted to Oregon StateUnlisted to G5/FCS80.7Jan 8, 2026

Ish Findlayter played DL for Virginia Tech and Duquesne. Across 3 tracked seasons, Ish Findlayter recorded 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Virginia Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Virginia Tech paired 1.5 primary output with 23.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 22.5 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 Virginia Tech, Duquesne.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh

Game 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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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Duquesne

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

22.5

Usage

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Pittsburgh: 2. Akron: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half2 · Games = 1 · +2 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -2 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs Pittsburgh

Result
Sat 9/20@ Akron22000
Sat 8/30@ PittsburghSplash game43100

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Virginia Tech

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Duquesne

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech1.523.34.4
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech0-1.5
2025 Regular SeasonDuquesne222.52

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 36 Pittsburgh

Week 1

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

68.4 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 68.4 takeover score.

#2

@ Virginia

Week 13 · W 55-17 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

53.3 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 53.3 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 117 Akron

Week 4

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

1.5 primary output · 23.3 efficiency · 4.4 usage

58.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · Duquesne

57.5

2 primary · 22.5 efficiency · usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games