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Player Dossier
2024-2025Illinois
Joe Barna
LB • 6'4" • 265 lbs • Wheaton, IL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Joe Barna shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
84
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
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Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Illinois
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Illinois
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Indiana
Player Story
Joe Barna built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Wheaton, IL wearing No. 43, spending time with Illinois. The clearest part of Joe Barna's career was his defensive production: 35...
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- Committed To
- Illinois
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Joe Barna, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Illinois. Joe Barna shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17 disruption score.
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- Latest team and position
- Illinois · LB
- Career Tackles
- 35
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Illinois
- Top game
- Indiana
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Wheaton North · Illinois
- High school pipeline
- Wheaton North · 12 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 43 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 20 tackles · LB 582nd (top 46%) · Big Ten 243rd (top 31%) · National 2,041st (top 33%)
Joe Barna played LB for Illinois. Across 2 tracked seasons, Joe Barna recorded 35 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Illinois.
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