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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2011-2015Middle Tennessee
Kevin Byard
S • 5'11" • Lithonia, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Kevin Byard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.
Impact Production
80
High-end production for a safety
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
66
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2013 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Middle Tennessee
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Troy
Player Story
Kevin Byard built his college career from 2011 through 2015 as a safety from Lithonia, GA wearing No. 20, spending time with Middle Tennessee. The clearest part of Kevin Byard's career was his defensive production:...
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- Committed To
- Middle Tennessee
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2011
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2016
- Selection
- Round 3 · Pick 1
- Overall
- No. 64
- NFL Team
- Tennessee Titans
Kevin Byard, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2013 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee. Kevin Byard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Touchdowns
- 5
Quick Answers
Kevin Byard quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Middle Tennessee · S
- Career Tackles
- 0
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 19 games
- Best season
- 2013 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
- Top game
- Troy
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Martin Luther King Jr. · Middle Tennessee
- High school pipeline
- Martin Luther King Jr. · 23 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- NFL Draft
- 2016 · Round 3 · Pick 1 · Tennessee Titans
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Class 2015
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2012 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 3 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 2 | 50.3 |
| 2013 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 5 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 2 | 67.8 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 7 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 1 | 66.2 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 4 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 62.2 |
Related Context
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Kevin Byard played S for Middle Tennessee. Across 5 tracked seasons, Kevin Byard recorded 5 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2012 with Middle Tennessee.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2013 Regular Season
Middle Tennessee paired 5 primary output with 20 efficiency.
Supporting note
2015 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 20 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2015 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UTSA
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2015 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
Games
4
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
20
Usage
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Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
UTSA
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Game by game trend chart. Alabama: 1. Vanderbilt: 1. North Texas: 1. UTSA: 1
Volume vs Efficiency
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Wins1 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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4 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
UTSA
Best efficiency game
20 vs UTSA
Player Story
Kevin Byard story
Kevin Byard built his college career from 2011 through 2015 as a safety from Lithonia, GA wearing No. 20, spending time with Middle Tennessee. The clearest part of Kevin Byard's career was his defensive production: 19 interceptions across 19 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2014 with Middle Tennessee. 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 Kevin Byard's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 93 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 19 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Middle Tennessee.
The arc is straightforward: Kevin Byard 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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Middle Tennessee
2011-2015
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2012 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 4 | 26.7 | — | 4 |
| 2013 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 5 | 20 | — | 1 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 6 | 17.1 | — | 1 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Middle Tennessee | 4 | 20 | — | -2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Troy
Week 13 · W 24-21 · Conference game
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
70 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 70 takeover score.
#2
@ Southern Miss
Week 13 · W 42-21 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
#3
vs Florida International
Week 11 · W 48-0 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
#4
vs Marshall
Week 9 · W 51-49 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
#5
@ BYU
Week 5 · L 10-37
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Havoc Plays
60 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2013 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
5 primary output · 20 efficiency · — usage
67.8
#2
2014 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
66.2
6 primary · 17.1 efficiency · — usage
#3
2015 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
62.2
4 primary · 20 efficiency · — usage
Milestones
16
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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