Player Dossier

2023-2025

Kentucky

Sam Greene

LB • 6'2" • 248 lbs • Washington, DC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Sam Greene shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

34%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

54

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

28

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

74

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
USC • Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Auburn

Player Story

Sam Greene built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Washington, DC wearing No. 2, spending time with Kentucky and USC. The clearest part of Sam Greene's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8878

St. Frances Academy · Baltimore, MD

Committed To
USC
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Sam Greene, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky. Sam Greene shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 21.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
41
TFL
6
Sacks
2
QB hurries
6
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Sam Greene quick answers

Latest team and position
Kentucky · LB
Career Tackles
41
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 18 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
Top game
Auburn
Recruit profile
3-star · St. Frances Academy · USC
High school pipeline
St. Frances Academy · 58 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 2 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
25 tackles · LB 532nd (top 42%) · SEC 208th (top 28%) · National 1,727th (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonUSC11-0--036.7
2024 Regular SeasonUSC815312-042.9
2025 Regular SeasonKentucky9253141043.7

Related Context

Sam Greene played LB for USC and Kentucky. Across 3 tracked seasons, Sam Greene recorded 41 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Kentucky paired 9 primary output with 21.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 21.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across USC, Kentucky.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Auburn

Win with 5 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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2025 Regular Season · Kentucky

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

21.6

Usage

4.6

Consistency

14.8

Best Game by takeover score

Auburn

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Toledo: 0. Ole Miss: 0. Eastern Michigan: 1. South Carolina: 0. Georgia: 0. Texas: 2. Tennessee: 0. Auburn: 5. Florida: 1

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. Toledo: 1 by 4.2. Ole Miss: 3 by 12.5. Eastern Michigan: 3 by 22.5. South Carolina: 4 by 16.7. Georgia: 2 by 8.3. Texas: 1 by 24.2. Tennessee: 3 by 12.5. Auburn: 7 by 79.2. Florida: 1 by 14.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.8 · Games = 4 · +1.4 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 5 · -1.4 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Auburn

Best efficiency game

79.2 vs Auburn

Result
Sun 11/9vs FloridaW 38-711100
Sat 11/1@ AuburnSplash gameW 10-376211
Sat 10/25vs TennesseeL 34-5631000
Sat 10/18vs TexasSplash gameL 13-1610000
Sat 10/4@ GeorgiaL 14-3522000
Sat 9/27@ South CarolinaL 13-3543000
Sat 9/13vs Eastern MichiganW 48-2331000
Sat 9/6vs Ole MissL 23-3031000
Sat 8/30vs ToledoW 24-1610000

Player Story

Sam Greene story

Sam Greene built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Washington, DC wearing No. 2, spending time with Kentucky and USC. The clearest part of Sam Greene's career was his defensive production: 41 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 18 career games in the available record. That gives Sam Greene's 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

    USC

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kentucky

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonUSC04.20.7
2024 Regular SeasonUSC615.36.16
2025 Regular SeasonKentucky921.64.63

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 29 Auburn

Week 10 · W 10-3 · Conference game

Win with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5

Havoc Plays

93.1 takeover

5 disruption/tackle impact with 93.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Rutgers

Week 9 · W 42-20 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

79.2 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Washington

Week 10 · L 21-26 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

53.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.3 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 17 Texas

Week 8 · L 13-16 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

39.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 39.7 takeover score.

#5

@ UCLA

Week 13 · W 19-13 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

36.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Kentucky

9 primary output · 21.6 efficiency · 4.6 usage

43.7

#2

2024 Regular Season · USC

42.9

6 primary · 15.3 efficiency · 6.1 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · USC

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games