Player Dossier

2023-2025

Western Michigan

Dalton Gustwiller

DL • 6'3" • 285 lbs • Dayton, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Dalton Gustwiller shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.4 disruption score.

Usage Score

1

Efficiency

6.4

Consistency

13.3

Season Value

9.9

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Western Michigan

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
Western Michigan
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kent State

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Dalton Gustwiller, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Western Michigan. Dalton Gustwiller shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.4 disruption score.

Dalton Gustwiller played DL for Western Michigan. Across 3 tracked seasons, Dalton Gustwiller recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Western Michigan.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Western Michigan paired 1.5 primary output with 6.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 6.4 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: Toledo

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Western Michigan

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

6.4

Usage

1

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Kennesaw State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kennesaw State: 0.5. Toledo: 1. Unknown: 0. Northern Illinois: 0. Miami (OH): 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. Kennesaw State: 1 by 9.2. Toledo: 0 by 10. Unknown: 1 by 4.2. Northern Illinois: 1 by 4.2. Miami (OH): 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.4 · Games = 4
First Half0.5 · Games = 3 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs First Half
All Games0.3 · Games = 5

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Toledo

Best efficiency game

10 vs Toledo

Result
Fri 12/19vs Kennesaw StateW 41-6100.5000
Sat 12/6vs Miami (OH)W 23-1310000
Wed 11/19@ Northern IllinoisW 35-1910000
Sat 9/27vs Unknown10000
Sat 9/20vs ToledoW 14-1300001

Career Arc

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    Western Michigan

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan0
2024 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan1132.71
2025 PostseasonWestern Michigan1.56.410.5
2025 Regular SeasonWestern Michigan1.56.410

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Kent State

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41 takeover score.

#2

Toledo

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#3

Kennesaw State

0.5

Primary metric

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 20.6 takeover score.

#4

Unknown

0

Primary metric

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.7 takeover score.

#5

Ball State

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2025 Postseason · Western Michigan

1.5 primary output · 6.4 efficiency · 1 usage

9.9

#2

2025 Regular Season · Western Michigan

9.9

1.5 primary · 6.4 efficiency · 1 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Western Michigan

9.8

1 primary · 13 efficiency · 2.7 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8237

Kettering Fairmont · Dayton, OH

Committed To
Western Michigan
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Career Facts

1

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

11

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 8 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.