Player Dossier

2024-2025

Michigan State

Brady Pretzlaff

LB • 6'3" • 237 lbs • Gaylord, MI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brady Pretzlaff shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

43

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

57

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

44

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Michigan State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Youngstown State
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8904

Gaylord · Gaylord, MI

Committed To
Michigan State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Brady Pretzlaff, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State. Brady Pretzlaff shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
11
TFL
2
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Brady Pretzlaff quick answers

Latest team and position
Michigan State · LB
Career Tackles
11
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 6 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
Top game
Youngstown State
Recruit profile
4-star · Gaylord · Michigan State
High school pipeline
Gaylord · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 45 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · LB 953rd (top 75%) · Big Ten 473rd (top 61%) · National 3,759th (top 61%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State3710--020.8
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan State3410-2058.9

Related Context

Brady Pretzlaff played LB for Michigan State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Brady Pretzlaff recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Michigan State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Michigan State paired 3 primary output with 15.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 15.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Youngstown State

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

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Michigan State

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

15.6

Usage

2.4

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Youngstown State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Michigan: 1. Boston College: 1. Youngstown State: 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. Western Michigan: 0 by 10. Boston College: 1 by 14.2. Youngstown State: 3 by 22.5

Split Comparison

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First Half1 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Youngstown State

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs Youngstown State

Result
Sat 9/13vs Youngstown StateW 41-2433100
Sat 9/6vs Boston CollegeW 42-4011001
Fri 8/29vs Western MichiganW 23-600001

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Michigan State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State113.13.1
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan State315.62.42

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Youngstown State

Week 3 · W 41-24

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

58.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Prairie View A&M

Week 3 · W 40-0

1

Havoc Plays

49.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.7 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 97 Boston College

Week 2 · W 42-40

1

Havoc Plays

40 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 78 Western Michigan

Week 1 · W 23-6

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Indiana

Week 10 · L 10-47 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

15.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Michigan State

3 primary output · 15.6 efficiency · 2.4 usage

58.9

#2

2024 Regular Season · Michigan State

20.8

1 primary · 13.1 efficiency · 3.1 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games