Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Stanford
Sam Neely III
CB • 5'11" • 185 lbs • Charlotte, NC, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Sam Neely III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
18
Developing production for a corner
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Reliability
18
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
27
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Stanford
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Wake Forest • Stanford
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame
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- Committed To
- Wake Forest
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Sam Neely III, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Stanford. Sam Neely III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 6
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Sam Neely III quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Stanford · CB
- Career Tackles
- 6
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 4 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Stanford
- Top game
- Notre Dame
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Weddington · Wake Forest
- High school pipeline
- Weddington · 12 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 28 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 6 tackles · CB 331st (top 70%) · ACC 450th (top 57%) · National 3,519th (top 57%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Regular Season | Stanford | 4 | 6 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 31.8 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest to Stanford | P4 to P4 | 80.7 | Apr 23, 2025 |
Sam Neely III played CB for Wake Forest and Stanford. Across 2 tracked seasons, Sam Neely III recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Stanford.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Stanford paired 1 primary output with 8.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 8.8 efficiency.
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Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Wake Forest, Stanford.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Stanford
Games
4
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
8.8
Usage
1.2
Consistency
8.3
Best Game by takeover score
Notre Dame
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. San José State: 0. Pittsburgh: 0. California: 0. Notre Dame: 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. San José State: 1 by 4.2. Pittsburgh: 3 by 12.5. California: 1 by 4.2. Notre Dame: 1 by 14.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
4 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Notre Dame
Best efficiency game
14.2 vs Notre Dame
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Wake Forest
2024
Opening stop
- 2
Stanford
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Stanford | 1 | 8.8 | 1.2 | 1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 5 Notre Dame
Week 14 · L 20-49 · Ranked opponent
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
40 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 36 Pittsburgh
Week 10 · L 20-35 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
11.1 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.1 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 118 San José State
Week 5 · W 30-29
0
Havoc Plays
4.2 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 80 California
Week 13 · W 31-10 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.3 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Stanford
1 primary output · 8.8 efficiency · 1.2 usage
31.8
#2
2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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