Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2025-2025Ohio State
Riley Pettijohn
LB • 6'2" • 231 lbs • McKinney, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Riley Pettijohn shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
27
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
28
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
37
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ohio State
25
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 1
- Program Path
- Ohio State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers
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- Committed To
- Ohio State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2025
Riley Pettijohn, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ohio State. Riley Pettijohn shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 9
- TFL
- 1
- Passes defended
- 1
- Touchdowns
- 1
Quick Answers
Riley Pettijohn quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Ohio State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 9
- Tracked sample
- 1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Ohio State
- Top game
- Rutgers
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · McKinney · Ohio State
- High school pipeline
- McKinney · 26 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 9 tackles · LB 787th (top 62%) · Big Ten 379th (top 49%) · National 3,086th (top 50%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Regular Season | Ohio State | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 1 | 36.5 |
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Riley Pettijohn played LB for Ohio State. Across 1 tracked season, Riley Pettijohn recorded 9 tackles and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Ohio State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Ohio State paired 2 primary output with 11.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 11.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers
Win 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 · Ohio State
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
11.5
Usage
2.5
Consistency
13.3
Best Game by takeover score
Rutgers
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Grambling: 1. Ohio: 0. Penn State: 0. Purdue: 0. Rutgers: 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. Grambling: 2 by 18.3. Ohio: 3 by 12.5. Penn State: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 2 by 8.3. Rutgers: 1 by 14.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.2 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Rutgers
Best efficiency game
18.3 vs Grambling
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Ohio State
2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Regular Season | Ohio State | 2 | 11.5 | 2.5 | — |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 72 Rutgers
Week 13 · W 42-9 · Conference game
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
52.2 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.2 takeover score.
#2
vs Grambling
Week 2 · W 70-0
1
Havoc Plays
44.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.7 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 84 Ohio
Week 3 · W 37-9
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Havoc Plays
11.1 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.1 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 90 Purdue
Week 11 · W 34-10 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
9.4 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 15 Penn State
Week 10 · W 38-14 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
0
Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Ohio State
2 primary output · 11.5 efficiency · 2.5 usage
36.5
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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