Player Dossier

2024-2025

Louisiana Tech

Cole Watson

LB • 6'0" • 198 lbs • Marshall, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Cole Watson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

14%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

14

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Louisiana Tech

242525

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Louisiana Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.823

Tatum · Tatum, TX

Committed To
Louisiana Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Cole Watson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Louisiana Tech. Cole Watson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
7

Quick Answers

Cole Watson quick answers

Latest team and position
Louisiana Tech · LB
Career Tackles
7
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Louisiana Tech
Top game
New Mexico State
Recruit profile
3-star · Tatum · Louisiana Tech
High school pipeline
Tatum · 14 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 35 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
7 tackles · LB 826th (top 65%) · Conference USA 293rd (top 54%) · National 3,269th (top 53%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonLouisiana Tech00-0--0-
2025 PostseasonLouisiana Tech52-0--038.3
2025 Regular SeasonLouisiana Tech55-0--038.3

Related Context

Cole Watson played LB for Louisiana Tech. Across 2 tracked seasons, Cole Watson recorded 7 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Louisiana Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Louisiana Tech paired 0 primary output with 5.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 5.8 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: New Mexico State

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Louisiana Tech

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

5.8

Usage

1.1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

New Mexico State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Coastal Carolina: 0. SE Louisiana: 0. LSU: 0. New Mexico State: 0. Delaware: 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. Coastal Carolina: 2 by 8.3. SE Louisiana: 1 by 4.2. LSU: 1 by 4.2. New Mexico State: 2 by 8.3. Delaware: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

New Mexico State

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Coastal Carolina

Result
Tue 12/30vs Coastal CarolinaW 23-1420000
Sat 11/8@ DelawareL 24-2510000
Sat 9/13vs New Mexico StateW 49-1420000
Sat 9/6@ LSUL 7-2311000
Sat 8/30vs SE LouisianaW 24-011000

Career Arc

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

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    Louisiana Tech

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonLouisiana Tech0
2025 PostseasonLouisiana Tech05.81.10
2025 Regular SeasonLouisiana Tech05.81.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 123 New Mexico State

Week 3 · W 49-14 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

8.3 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 121 Coastal Carolina

Week 1 · W 23-14 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

6.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 109 Delaware

Week 11 · L 24-25 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 32 LSU

Week 2 · L 7-23

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.

#5

vs SE Louisiana

Week 1 · W 24-0

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Win 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 Postseason · Louisiana Tech

0 primary output · 5.8 efficiency · 1.1 usage

38.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Louisiana Tech

38.3

0 primary · 5.8 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Louisiana Tech

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games