Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Iowa State
Caden Matson
DB • 6'0" • 205 lbs • Humboldt, IA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Caden Matson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9 disruption score.
Impact Production
15
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
8
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
28
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Iowa State
22232425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Iowa State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State
Player Story
Caden Matson built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Humboldt, IA wearing No. 43, spending time with Iowa State. The clearest part of Caden Matson's career was his defensive...
Read the storyCaden Matson, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Iowa State. Caden Matson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 15
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Caden Matson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Iowa State · DB
- Career Tackles
- 15
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 8 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Iowa State
- Top game
- Oklahoma State
- Latest roster
- No. 43 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · DB 498th (top 52%) · Big 12 287th (top 40%) · National 2,412th (top 39%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Iowa State | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 2 | 33.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Iowa State | 7 | 15 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 41.3 |
Related Context
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Caden Matson played DB for Iowa State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Caden Matson recorded 15 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Iowa State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Iowa State paired 0 primary output with 9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State
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 Regular Season · Iowa State
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
9
Usage
1.8
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Oklahoma State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. South Dakota: 0. Iowa: 0. Arizona: 0. Cincinnati: 0. Arizona State: 0. TCU: 0. Oklahoma 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. South Dakota: 1 by 4.2. Iowa: 1 by 4.2. Arizona: 1 by 4.2. Cincinnati: 1 by 4.2. Arizona State: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 3 by 12.5. Oklahoma State: 7 by 29.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 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
Oklahoma State
Best efficiency game
29.2 vs Oklahoma State
Player Story
Caden Matson story
Caden Matson built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Humboldt, IA wearing No. 43, spending time with Iowa State. The clearest part of Caden Matson's career was his defensive production: 15 tackles across 8 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Iowa State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Caden Matson's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 25 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 8 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Iowa State.
The arc is straightforward: Caden Matson moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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Iowa State
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Iowa State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Iowa State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Iowa State | 0 | 9 | 1.8 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 121 Oklahoma State
Week 14 · W 20-13 · Conference game
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Havoc Plays
28.1 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 28.1 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 37 TCU
Week 11 · W 20-17 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
8.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.9 takeover score.
#3
vs South Dakota
Week 1 · W 55-7
0
Havoc Plays
4.2 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 56 Cincinnati
Week 6 · L 30-38 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 60 Arizona State
Week 10 · L 19-24 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Iowa State
0 primary output · 9 efficiency · 1.8 usage
41.3
#2
2024 Regular Season · Iowa State
33.3
0 primary · 0 efficiency · 0 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Iowa State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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