Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Stanford
Sam Mattingly
LB • 6'2" • 235 lbs • Magnolia, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Sam Mattingly shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
25
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
18
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
38
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Stanford
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Stanford
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame
Player Story
Sam Mattingly built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Magnolia, TX wearing No. 51, spending time with Stanford. The clearest part of Sam Mattingly's career was his defensive production:...
Read the storySam Mattingly, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Stanford. Sam Mattingly shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 29
- TFL
- 2.5
Quick Answers
Sam Mattingly quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Stanford · LB
- Career Tackles
- 29
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 13 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Stanford
- Top game
- Notre Dame
- High school pipeline
- Magnolia West · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 51 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 23 tackles · LB 555th (top 44%) · ACC 249th (top 32%) · National 1,868th (top 31%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Stanford | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 25.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Stanford | 9 | 23 | 1.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.7 |
Related Context
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Sam Mattingly played LB for Stanford. Across 2 tracked seasons, Sam Mattingly recorded 29 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Stanford.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Stanford paired 1.5 primary output with 12.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 12.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame
Loss 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 · Stanford
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.2
Efficiency
12.3
Usage
3.2
Consistency
7.4
Best Game by takeover score
Notre Dame
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Hawai'i: 0. BYU: 0. Boston College: 0. Virginia: 0. San José State: 0. SMU: 0. Miami: 0.5. Pittsburgh: 0. Notre Dame: 1
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. Hawai'i: 2 by 8.3. BYU: 3 by 12.5. Boston College: 1 by 4.2. Virginia: 4 by 16.7. San José State: 2 by 8.3. SMU: 1 by 4.2. Miami: 5 by 25.8. Pittsburgh: 1 by 4.2. Notre Dame: 4 by 26.7
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 7 · +0.2 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Notre Dame
Best efficiency game
26.7 vs Notre Dame
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/30 | vs Notre Dame | L 20-49 | 4 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | vs Pittsburgh | L 20-35 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Miami | L 7-42 | 5 | 2 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ SMU | L 10-34 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs San José State | W 30-29 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Virginia | L 20-48 | 4 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/14 | vs Boston College | W 30-20 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/7 | @ BYU | L 3-27 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/23 | @ Hawai'i | L 20-23 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Sam Mattingly story
Sam Mattingly built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Magnolia, TX wearing No. 51, spending time with Stanford. The clearest part of Sam Mattingly's career was his defensive production: 29 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Sam Mattingly's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Stanford
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Stanford | 1 | 8.8 | 2.2 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Stanford | 1.5 | 12.3 | 3.2 | 0.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 5 Notre Dame
Week 14 · L 20-49 · Ranked opponent
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
73.1 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 73.1 takeover score.
#2
vs Cal Poly
Week 2 · W 41-7
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Havoc Plays
55 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 55 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 9 Miami
Week 9 · L 7-42 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
0.5
Havoc Plays
45.3 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 45.3 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 31 Virginia
Week 4 · L 20-48 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
12.2 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.2 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 18 BYU
Week 2 · L 3-27 · Ranked opponent
0
Havoc Plays
9.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Stanford
1.5 primary output · 12.3 efficiency · 3.2 usage
36.7
#2
2024 Regular Season · Stanford
25.5
1 primary · 8.8 efficiency · 2.2 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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