Player Dossier

2023-2025

Michigan

Brandyn Hillman

DB • 6'0" • 200 lbs • Portsmouth, VA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandyn Hillman shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Michigan

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Michigan
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Alabama

Player Story

Brandyn Hillman built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Portsmouth, VA wearing No. 6, spending time with Michigan. The clearest part of Brandyn Hillman's career was his defensive...

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4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9181

Churchland · Portsmouth, VA

Committed To
Michigan
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Brandyn Hillman, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Michigan. Brandyn Hillman shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
72
TFL
4
Sacks
1
Passes defended
5

Quick Answers

Brandyn Hillman quick answers

Latest team and position
Michigan · DB
Career Tackles
72
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 23 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Michigan
Top game
Alabama
Recruit profile
4-star · Churchland · Michigan
High school pipeline
Churchland · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 6 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
49 tackles · DB 143rd (top 15%) · Big Ten 80th (top 11%) · National 632nd (top 11%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan22-0--037
2024 PostseasonMichigan9411-1029.2
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan9170.50-1029.2
2025 PostseasonMichigan121-0--043.5
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan12482.50-3043.5

Related Context

Brandyn Hillman played DB for Michigan. Across 3 tracked seasons, Brandyn Hillman recorded 72 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Michigan.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Michigan paired 6.5 primary output with 22.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · Michigan

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UNLV: 0. Bowling Green: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Bowling Green

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Bowling Green

Result
Sat 9/16vs Bowling GreenW 31-611000
Sat 9/9vs UNLVW 35-710000

Player Story

Brandyn Hillman story

Brandyn Hillman built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Portsmouth, VA wearing No. 6, spending time with Michigan. The clearest part of Brandyn Hillman's career was his defensive production: 72 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 interception across 23 career games in the available record. That gives Brandyn Hillman's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Michigan

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan04.20.8
2024 PostseasonMichigan4.514.73.14.5
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan4.514.73.10
2025 PostseasonMichigan6.522.44.52
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan6.522.44.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Alabama

Week 1 · W 19-13 · Postseason

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

78.3 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 78.3 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 75 Maryland

Week 13 · W 45-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

73.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.9 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 73 New Mexico

Week 1 · W 34-17

1.5

Havoc Plays

58.3 takeover

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 58.3 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 85 Wisconsin

Week 6 · W 24-10 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 82 Michigan State

Week 9 · W 31-20 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

43.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Michigan

6.5 primary output · 22.4 efficiency · 4.5 usage

43.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · Michigan

43.5

6.5 primary · 22.4 efficiency · 4.5 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Michigan

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games