Player Dossier

2024-2025

Nebraska

Ashton Murphy

DL • 6'5" • 275 lbs • Elkhorn, NE, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ashton Murphy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Nebraska
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Akron

Player Story

Ashton Murphy built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Elkhorn, NE wearing No. 57, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Ashton Murphy's career was his defensive...

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Ashton Murphy, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska. Ashton Murphy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4
TFL
1
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

Ashton Murphy quick answers

Latest team and position
Nebraska · DL
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 4 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Nebraska
Top game
Akron
High school pipeline
Elkhorn South · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 57 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DL 807th (top 75%) · Big Ten 472nd (top 61%) · National 3,756th (top 61%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska00-0--0-
2025 PostseasonNebraska41-0--034.3
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska4311--034.3

Related Context

Ashton Murphy played DL for Nebraska. Across 2 tracked seasons, Ashton Murphy recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Nebraska.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Nebraska paired 2 primary output with 9.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 9.2 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: Akron

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Nebraska

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

9.2

Usage

2.4

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Akron

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah: 0. Akron: 2. Houston Christian: 0. Northwestern: 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. Utah: 1 by 4.2. Akron: 1 by 24.2. Houston Christian: 1 by 4.2. Northwestern: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.7 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

Akron

Best efficiency game

24.2 vs Akron

Result
Wed 12/31@ UtahL 22-4410000
Sat 10/25vs NorthwesternW 28-2111000
Sat 9/13vs Houston ChristianW 59-711000
Sat 9/6vs AkronSplash gameW 68-011110

Player Story

Ashton Murphy story

Ashton Murphy built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Elkhorn, NE wearing No. 57, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Ashton Murphy's career was his defensive production: 4 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 sack across 4 career games in the available record. That gives Ashton Murphy's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

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    Nebraska

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska0
2025 PostseasonNebraska29.22.42
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska29.22.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 117 Akron

Week 2 · W 68-0

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

61.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.1 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 51 Northwestern

Week 9 · W 28-21 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#3

vs Houston Christian

Week 3 · W 59-7

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 8 Utah

Week 1 · L 22-44 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Nebraska

2 primary output · 9.2 efficiency · 2.4 usage

34.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Nebraska

34.3

2 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 2.4 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Nebraska

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games