Usage Score
11.2
Player Dossier
2024-2025Sam Houston
Dean Ford
LB • 6'0" • 225 lbs • Houston, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Dean Ford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 30.5 disruption score.
Efficiency
30.5
Consistency
58.5
Season Value
31.1
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
2425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Seasons Tracked
- 2
- Program Path
- Sam Houston
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee
Scouting Read
Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.
Dean Ford, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston. Dean Ford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 30.5 disruption score.
Dean Ford played LB for Sam Houston. Across 2 tracked seasons, Dean Ford recorded 32 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Sam Houston.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Sam Houston paired 8 primary output with 30.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 30.5 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: Middle Tennessee
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.
Season Explorer
Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.
2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
1.1
Efficiency
30.5
Usage
11.2
Consistency
58.5
Best Game by takeover score
Florida International
Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.
Active game
Hover over a point
Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.
Game-by-Game Trend
Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.
Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. New Mexico State: 1. Jacksonville State: 1. UTEP: 0. Oregon State: 0. Delaware: 2.5. Middle Tennessee: 2.5. Florida International: 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.
Low volumeHigh quality
High volumeHigh quality
Low volumeLower quality
High volumeLower quality
Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. New Mexico State: 5 by 30.8. Jacksonville State: 7 by 39.2. UTEP: 6 by 25. Oregon State: 4 by 16.7. Delaware: 3 by 37.5. Middle Tennessee: 5 by 45.8. Florida International: 2 by 18.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.3 · Games = 2 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses1.1 · Games = 5 · -0.1 vs Wins
First Half0.5 · Games = 4 · -1.5 vs Second Half
Second Half2 · Games = 3 · +1.5 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Middle Tennessee
Best efficiency game
45.8 vs Middle Tennessee
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Sam Houston
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 8 | 30.5 | 11.2 | 8 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
Middle Tennessee
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5
Primary metric
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 58.3 takeover score.
#2
Delaware
2.5
Primary metric
Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.
#3
Jacksonville State
1
Primary metric
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 30.2 takeover score.
#4
New Mexico State
1
Primary metric
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 27.6 takeover score.
#5
Florida International
1
Primary metric
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 22.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by value score
2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
8 primary output · 30.5 efficiency · 11.2 usage
31.1
#2
2024 Regular Season · Sam Houston
—
0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Bio, Recruit, and Data Context
Recruit Profile
3★
Class 2024 · Rating 0.8156
Morton Ranch · Katy, TX
- Committed To
- Sam Houston
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Career Facts
1
Career teams
2
Seasons tracked
32
Career Tackles
Data Context
Coverage spans 2 tracked seasons, 7 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.