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Player Dossier
2024-2025Florida International
Josiah Taylor
LB • 6'0" • 220 lbs • Sebring, FL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Josiah Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 34.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
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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
79
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Florida International
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Florida International
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State
Player Story
Josiah Taylor built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Sebring, FL wearing No. 35, spending time with Florida International. The clearest part of Josiah Taylor's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Florida International
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Josiah Taylor, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Florida International. Josiah Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 34.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 75
- TFL
- 6.5
- Sacks
- 1
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Josiah Taylor quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Florida International · LB
- Career Tackles
- 75
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Florida International
- Top game
- Jacksonville State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Sebring · Florida International
- High school pipeline
- Sebring · 7 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 35 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 71 tackles · LB 162nd (top 13%) · Conference USA 21st (top 4%) · National 261st (top 5%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Florida International | 4 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.5 |
| 2025 Postseason | Florida International | 12 | 6 | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 63.2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Florida International | 12 | 65 | 6 | 1 | - | 2 | 0 | 63.2 |
Related Context
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Josiah Taylor played LB for Florida International. Across 2 tracked seasons, Josiah Taylor recorded 75 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Florida International.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Florida International paired 11.5 primary output with 34.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 34.2 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: Jacksonville State
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Postseason · Florida International
Games
12
Havoc Plays / G
1.0
Efficiency
34.2
Usage
7.9
Consistency
52.8
Best Game by takeover score
Jacksonville State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. UTSA: 2.5. Bethune-Cookman: 1. Penn State: 0. Florida Atlantic: 1. Delaware: 0. UConn: 1. Western Kentucky: 0. Kennesaw State: 0. Middle Tennessee: 0. Liberty: 1. Jacksonville State: 4. Sam Houston: 1
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. UTSA: 6 by 50. Bethune-Cookman: 8 by 43.3. Penn State: 8 by 33.3. Florida Atlantic: 7 by 39.2. Delaware: 7 by 29.2. UConn: 5 by 30.8. Western Kentucky: 8 by 33.3. Kennesaw State: 2 by 8.3. Middle Tennessee: 5 by 20.8. Liberty: 4 by 26.7. Jacksonville State: 9 by 77.5. Sam Houston: 2 by 18.3
Split Comparison
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Wins1.1 · Games = 7 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.7 · Games = 5 · -0.4 vs Wins
Game Log
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12 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Jacksonville State
Best efficiency game
77.5 vs Jacksonville State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12/27 | @ UTSASplash game | L 20-57 | 6 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/29 | @ Sam Houston | W 56-16 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Jacksonville StateSplash game | W 27-21 | 9 | 8 | — | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | vs Liberty | W 34-27 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ Middle Tennessee | W 56-30 | 5 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Tue 10/21 | vs Kennesaw State | L 26-45 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Wed 10/15 | @ Western Kentucky | W 25-6 | 8 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ UConn | L 10-51 | 5 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs Delaware | L 16-38 | 7 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Florida Atlantic | W 38-28 | 7 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Penn State | L 0-34 | 8 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 8/29 | vs Bethune-Cookman | W 42-9 | 8 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Josiah Taylor story
Josiah Taylor built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Sebring, FL wearing No. 35, spending time with Florida International. The clearest part of Josiah Taylor's career was his defensive production: 75 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 2 passes defended across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Florida International. 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 Josiah Taylor's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 2 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Florida International.
The arc is straightforward: Josiah Taylor 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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Florida International
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Florida International | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | — |
| 2025 Postseason | Florida International | 11.5 | 34.2 | 7.9 | 11.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Florida International | 11.5 | 34.2 | 7.9 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 92 Jacksonville State
Week 13 · W 27-21 · Conference game
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
92.5 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 92.5 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 62 UTSA
Week 1 · L 20-57 · Postseason
2.5
Havoc Plays
70.8 takeover
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 70.8 takeover score.
#3
vs Bethune-Cookman
Week 1 · W 42-9
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Havoc Plays
50.8 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.8 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 53 UConn
Week 6 · L 10-51
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Havoc Plays
41.1 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.1 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 98 Florida Atlantic
Week 3 · W 38-28
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Havoc Plays
37 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 37 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Florida International
11.5 primary output · 34.2 efficiency · 7.9 usage
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#2
2025 Regular Season · Florida International
63.2
11.5 primary · 34.2 efficiency · 7.9 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Florida International
36.5
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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