Player Dossier

2024-2025

Georgia

Chris Cole

LB • 6'3" • 235 lbs • Salem, VA, USA

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Chris Cole shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 27.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

15%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

32

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

30

Sporadic game-to-game production

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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 Postseason · Georgia

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Georgia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

Player Story

Chris Cole built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Salem, VA wearing No. 9, spending time with Georgia. The clearest part of Chris Cole's career was his defensive production: 77 tackles,...

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5★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9866

Salem · Salem, VA

Committed To
Georgia
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Chris Cole, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Georgia. Chris Cole shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 27.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
77
TFL
9
Sacks
4.5
Passes defended
3
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Chris Cole quick answers

Latest team and position
Georgia · LB
Career Tackles
77
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 21 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Georgia
Top game
Tennessee
Recruit profile
5-star · Salem · Georgia
High school pipeline
Salem · 9 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 9 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
61 tackles · LB 217th (top 18%) · SEC 49th (top 7%) · National 390th (top 7%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonGeorgia71620-1119.1
2025 PostseasonGeorgia147-0--068.8
2025 Regular SeasonGeorgia145474.5-2068.8

Related Context

Chris Cole played LB for Georgia. Across 2 tracked seasons, Chris Cole recorded 77 tackles and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Georgia.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Georgia paired 13.5 primary output with 27.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 13.8 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: Ole Miss

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

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2024 Regular Season · Georgia

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

13.8

Usage

3.1

Consistency

14.3

Best Game by takeover score

Ole Miss

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Tennessee Tech: 1. Auburn: 0. Texas: 1. Florida: 0. Ole Miss: 1. Tennessee: 0. Massachusetts: 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. Tennessee Tech: 2 by 18.3. Auburn: 1 by 4.2. Texas: 2 by 18.3. Florida: 4 by 16.7. Ole Miss: 2 by 18.3. Tennessee: 2 by 8.3. Massachusetts: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 6 · -0.7 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 1 · +0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ole Miss

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Ole Miss

Result
Sat 11/23vs MassachusettsW 59-2131000
Sun 11/17vs TennesseeW 31-1722000
Sat 11/9@ Ole MissL 10-2821100
Sat 11/2vs FloridaW 34-2043000
Sat 10/19@ TexasW 30-1522001
Sat 10/5vs AuburnW 31-1311000
Sat 9/7vs Tennessee TechW 48-321100

Player Story

Chris Cole story

Chris Cole built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Salem, VA wearing No. 9, spending time with Georgia. The clearest part of Chris Cole's career was his defensive production: 77 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 21 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Georgia. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Chris Cole's production has multiple signals. With 21 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Georgia.

The arc is straightforward: Chris Cole moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Georgia

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonGeorgia313.83.1
2025 PostseasonGeorgia13.527.811.310.5
2025 Regular SeasonGeorgia13.527.811.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 19 Tennessee

Week 3 · W 44-41 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

86.4 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 86.4 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 20 Alabama

Week 5 · L 21-24 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

69.2 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.2 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 134 Charlotte

Week 13 · W 35-3

2

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

#4

vs Austin Peay

Week 2 · W 28-6

2

Havoc Plays

65 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 65 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 17 Texas

Week 12 · W 35-10 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

57.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Georgia

13.5 primary output · 27.8 efficiency · 11.3 usage

68.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · Georgia

68.8

13.5 primary · 27.8 efficiency · 11.3 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Georgia

19.1

3 primary · 13.8 efficiency · 3.1 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games