Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Oklahoma
James Nesta
LB • 6'3" • 230 lbs • Huntersville, NC, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
James Nesta shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
23
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
22
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
33
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Oklahoma
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Temple
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- Committed To
- Oklahoma
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
James Nesta, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma. James Nesta shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 6
- TFL
- 1
Quick Answers
James Nesta quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Oklahoma · LB
- Career Tackles
- 6
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 4 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma
- Top game
- Temple
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Hough · Oklahoma
- High school pipeline
- Hough · 37 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 47 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 4 tackles · LB 975th (top 77%) · SEC 468th (top 62%) · National 3,858th (top 63%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Oklahoma | 1 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 40.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Oklahoma | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 34.6 |
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James Nesta played LB for Oklahoma. Across 2 tracked seasons, James Nesta recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oklahoma.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Oklahoma paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 8.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Temple
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 · Oklahoma
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
8.9
Usage
2.2
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Temple
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Illinois State: 0. Temple: 1. South Carolina: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Illinois State: 2 by 8.3. Temple: 1 by 14.2. South Carolina: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
3 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Temple
Best efficiency game
14.2 vs Temple
Career Arc
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- 1
Oklahoma
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Oklahoma | 0 | 8.3 | 1.6 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Oklahoma | 1 | 8.9 | 2.2 | 1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 88 Temple
Week 3 · W 42-3
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
48.6 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.6 takeover score.
#2
vs Illinois State
Week 1 · W 35-3
0
Havoc Plays
8.3 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.
#3
vs Temple
Week 1 · W 51-3
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Havoc Plays
7.2 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 49 South Carolina
Week 8 · W 26-7 · Conference game
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
2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma
0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.6 usage
40.5
#2
2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma
34.6
1 primary · 8.9 efficiency · 2.2 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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