Player Dossier

2023-2025

Oklahoma State

Cooper Lai

S • 6'0" • 195 lbs • Tulsa, OK, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Cooper Lai shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a safety

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Oklahoma State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kansas

Cooper Lai, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State. Cooper Lai shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4

Quick Answers

Cooper Lai quick answers

Latest team and position
Oklahoma State · S
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 4 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State
Top game
Kansas
Latest roster
No. 29 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · S 426th (top 76%) · Big 12 448th (top 62%) · National 3,794th (top 62%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonOklahoma State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma State00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State44-0--037

Related Context

Cooper Lai played S for Oklahoma State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Cooper Lai recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Oklahoma State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Oklahoma State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 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: Kansas

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Kansas

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Houston: 0. Cincinnati: 0. Kansas: 0. Kansas State: 0

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. Houston: 1 by 4.2. Cincinnati: 1 by 4.2. Kansas: 1 by 4.2. Kansas State: 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 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Kansas

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Kansas State

Result
Sat 11/15vs Kansas StateL 6-1411000
Sat 11/1@ KansasL 21-3810000
Sun 10/19vs CincinnatiL 17-4910000
Sat 10/11vs HoustonL 17-3910000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Oklahoma State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonOklahoma State0
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma State00
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State04.20.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 58 Kansas

Week 10 · L 21-38 · Conference game

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 42 Kansas State

Week 12 · L 6-14 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 56 Cincinnati

Week 8 · L 17-49 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 40 Houston

Week 7 · L 17-39 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

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#2

2023 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games