Player Dossier

2024-2025

SMU

Brandon Booker

LB • 6'1" • 225 lbs • Desoto, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Booker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.4 disruption score.

Usage Score

6.2

Efficiency

29.4

Consistency

38.5

Season Value

43.5

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
SMU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Missouri State

Scouting Read

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Brandon Booker, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU. Brandon Booker shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.4 disruption score.

Brandon Booker played LB for SMU. Across 2 tracked seasons, Brandon Booker recorded 79 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with SMU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

SMU paired 9.5 primary output with 29.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 29.4 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: Missouri State

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · SMU

Games

13

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

29.4

Usage

6.2

Consistency

38.5

Best Game by takeover score

Missouri State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arizona: 0. East Texas A&M: 0. Baylor: 0.5. Missouri State: 2. TCU: 1. Syracuse: 0. Stanford: 1. Clemson: 0.5. Wake Forest: 2. Miami: 0. Boston College: 1. Louisville: 1.5. California: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Arizona: 7 by 29.2. East Texas A&M: 5 by 20.8. Baylor: 8 by 38.3. Missouri State: 5 by 40.8. TCU: 8 by 43.3. Syracuse: 3 by 12.5. Stanford: 4 by 26.7. Clemson: 4 by 21.7. Wake Forest: 4 by 36.7. Miami: 5 by 20.8. Boston College: 0 by 10. Louisville: 8 by 48.3. California: 8 by 33.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.7 · Games = 9 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 4 · +0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

13 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Missouri State

Best efficiency game

48.3 vs Louisville

Result
Sat 1/3vs ArizonaW 24-1974000
Sun 11/30@ CaliforniaL 35-3882000
Sat 11/22vs LouisvilleW 38-6851.5000
Sat 11/8@ Boston CollegeW 45-1300000
Sat 11/1vs MiamiW 26-2051000
Sat 10/25@ Wake ForestSplash gameL 12-1342002
Sat 10/18@ ClemsonW 35-24420.5000
Sat 10/11vs StanfordW 34-1041000
Sat 10/4vs SyracuseW 31-1831000
Sat 9/20@ TCUL 24-3581000
Sat 9/13@ Missouri StateSplash gameW 28-10510.500.500
Sat 9/6vs BaylorL 45-48820.5000
Sun 8/31vs East Texas A&MW 42-1354000

Career Arc

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    SMU

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonSMU061
2024 Regular SeasonSMU0610
2025 PostseasonSMU9.529.46.29.5
2025 Regular SeasonSMU9.529.46.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Missouri State

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 50.2 takeover score.

#2

Louisville

1.5

Primary metric

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.

#3

Wake Forest

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.5 takeover score.

#4

TCU

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.3 takeover score.

#5

Stanford

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 27.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · SMU

9.5 primary output · 29.4 efficiency · 6.2 usage

43.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · SMU

43.5

9.5 primary · 29.4 efficiency · 6.2 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · SMU

35.7

0 primary · 6 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8706

DeSoto · DeSoto, TX

Committed To
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Career Facts

1

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

79

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 20 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.