Player Dossier

2023-2025

Arkansas

Ken Talley

DL • 6'3" • 257 lbs • Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ken Talley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

10

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Michigan State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Michigan State • Arkansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Ohio State

Player Story

Ken Talley built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Philadelphia, PA wearing No. 11, spending time with Arkansas and Michigan State. The clearest part of Ken Talley's career was his...

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Ken Talley, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Michigan State. Ken Talley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
14
TFL
3
Sacks
1.5
QB hurries
3

Quick Answers

Ken Talley quick answers

Latest team and position
Arkansas · DL
Career Tackles
14
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 9 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Michigan State
Top game
Ohio State
High school pipeline
Northeast · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 11 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
3 tackles · DL 883rd (top 82%) · SEC 503rd (top 67%) · National 4,206th (top 68%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan State35101-051.8
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State4621.52-053.5
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas23-0--038.2

Related Context

Ken Talley played DL for Michigan State and Arkansas. Across 3 tracked seasons, Ken Talley recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Michigan State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Michigan State paired 5.5 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Michigan State, Arkansas.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas 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 · Arkansas

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

6.3

Usage

1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Alabama A&M: 0. Arkansas State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arkansas State

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Arkansas State

Result
Sat 9/6vs Arkansas StateW 56-1420000
Sat 8/30vs Alabama A&MW 52-711000

Player Story

Ken Talley story

Ken Talley built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Philadelphia, PA wearing No. 11, spending time with Arkansas and Michigan State. The clearest part of Ken Talley's career was his defensive production: 14 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Ken Talley'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

    Michigan State

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Arkansas

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan State213.611
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State5.5205.13.5
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas06.31-5.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Ohio State

Week 11 · L 3-38 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

74.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 74.2 takeover score.

#2

vs Florida Atlantic

Week 1 · W 16-10

3

Havoc Plays

64.7 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 64.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Penn State

Week 13 · L 0-42 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

52.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.2 takeover score.

#4

vs Prairie View A&M

Week 3 · W 40-0

2

Havoc Plays

50.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 50.6 takeover score.

#5

@ Maryland

Week 2 · W 27-24 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

25.8 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 25.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Michigan State

5.5 primary output · 20 efficiency · 5.1 usage

53.5

#2

2023 Regular Season · Michigan State

51.8

2 primary · 13.6 efficiency · 11 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Arkansas

38.2

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games