Player Dossier

2022-2024

Massachusetts

Brandon McElroy

DL • 6'5" • 301 lbs • Pasadena, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon McElroy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

42

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

56

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

43

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Marshall

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Arizona State • Marshall • Massachusetts
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: East Carolina

Brandon McElroy, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Marshall. Brandon McElroy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
23
TFL
2.5
Sacks
0.5

Quick Answers

Brandon McElroy quick answers

Latest team and position
Massachusetts · DL
Career Tackles
23
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Marshall
Top game
East Carolina
Latest roster
No. 88 · Junior
2024 Tackles rank
12 tackles · DL 532nd (top 52%) · FBS Independents 65th (top 44%) · National 2,649th (top 44%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonArizona State00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonMarshall4111.50.5--048.4
2024 Regular SeasonMassachusetts71210--020.6

Related Context

Brandon McElroy played DL for Arizona State, Marshall, and Massachusetts. Across 3 tracked seasons, Brandon McElroy recorded 23 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Massachusetts.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Marshall paired 2 primary output with 16.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Arizona State, Marshall, Massachusetts.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: East Carolina

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · Marshall

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

16.5

Usage

3.3

Consistency

50

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. UAlbany: 1. East Carolina: 1. Virginia Tech: 0. Old Dominion: 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. UAlbany: 3 by 22.5. East Carolina: 1 by 14.2. Virginia Tech: 2 by 8.3. Old Dominion: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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

First Half1 · Games = 2 · +1 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · -1 vs First Half

Game Log

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4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

East Carolina

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs UAlbany

Result
Sat 9/30vs Old DominionW 41-3550000
Sat 9/23vs Virginia TechW 24-1720000
Sat 9/9@ East CarolinaW 31-1311100
Sat 9/2vs UAlbanyW 21-17300.500.500

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Arizona State

    2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Marshall

    2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Massachusetts

    2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonArizona State0
2023 Regular SeasonMarshall216.53.32
2024 Regular SeasonMassachusetts18.61.7-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ East Carolina

Week 2 · W 31-13

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

50.8 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.8 takeover score.

#2

vs UAlbany

Week 1 · W 21-17

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Havoc Plays

49.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.4 takeover score.

#3

vs Wagner

Week 9 · W 35-7

0.5

Havoc Plays

30.5 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.5 takeover score.

#4

@ Miami (OH)

Week 5 · L 20-23

0.5

Havoc Plays

27.5 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 27.5 takeover score.

#5

vs Old Dominion

Week 5 · W 41-35 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

18 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 18 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Marshall

2 primary output · 16.5 efficiency · 3.3 usage

48.4

#2

2024 Regular Season · Massachusetts

20.6

1 primary · 8.6 efficiency · 1.7 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Arizona State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games