Player Dossier

2025-2025

Missouri State

Kanye Young

LB • 6'1" • 220 lbs • Menifee, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kanye Young shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 36.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

86%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

91

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

67

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Missouri State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Missouri State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Kentucky

Player Story

Kanye Young built his college career in 2025 as a linebacker from Menifee, CA wearing No. 44, spending time with Missouri State. The clearest part of Kanye Young's career was his defensive production: 77 tackles, 5.5...

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Kanye Young, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Missouri State. Kanye Young shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 36.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
77
TFL
5.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Kanye Young quick answers

Latest team and position
Missouri State · LB
Career Tackles
77
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 14 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Missouri State
Top game
Western Kentucky
Latest roster
No. 44 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
77 tackles · LB 127th (top 10%) · Conference USA 16th (top 3%) · National 184th (top 3%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 PostseasonMissouri State13310-1061.3
2025 Regular SeasonMissouri State13744.5153061.3

Related Context

Kanye Young played LB for Missouri State. Across 1 tracked season, Kanye Young recorded 77 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Missouri State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Missouri State paired 16.5 primary output with 36.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 36.6 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: Western Kentucky

Loss with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Missouri State

Games

13

Havoc Plays / G

1.3

Efficiency

36.6

Usage

10.2

Consistency

23.4

Best Game by takeover score

Western Kentucky

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas State: 2. USC: 0.5. Marshall: 3.5. SMU: 0. UT Martin: 1. Western Kentucky: 6. Middle Tennessee: 1. New Mexico State: 0. Florida International: 2. Liberty: 0. UTEP: 0. Kennesaw State: 0.5. Louisiana Tech: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Arkansas State: 3 by 32.5. USC: 3 by 17.5. Marshall: 7 by 64.2. SMU: 3 by 12.5. UT Martin: 6 by 35. Western Kentucky: 10 by 91.7. Middle Tennessee: 5 by 30.8. New Mexico State: 5 by 20.8. Florida International: 4 by 36.7. Liberty: 5 by 20.8. UTEP: 8 by 33.3. Kennesaw State: 7 by 34.2. Louisiana Tech: 11 by 45.8

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.1 · Games = 7 · -0.4 vs Losses
Losses1.5 · Games = 6 · +0.4 vs Wins

Game Log

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13 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Western Kentucky

Best efficiency game

91.7 vs Western Kentucky

Result
Fri 12/19@ Arkansas StateSplash gameL 28-3432101
Sat 11/29vs Louisiana Tech10+ tacklesL 30-42114000
Sat 11/22@ Kennesaw StateL 34-41710.5000
Sat 11/15vs UTEPW 38-2482000
Sat 11/8@ LibertyW 21-1755000
Thu 10/30vs Florida InternationalSplash gameW 28-2142002
Thu 10/23@ New Mexico StateW 24-1753000
Wed 10/8@ Middle TennesseeW 22-2052000
Sat 9/27vs Western Kentucky10+ tackles · Splash gameL 22-27108211
Sat 9/20vs UT MartinW 42-1064100
Sat 9/13vs SMUL 10-2833000
Sat 9/6@ MarshallSplash gameW 21-20730.50010
Sat 8/30@ USCL 13-73320.5000

Player Story

Kanye Young story

Kanye Young built his college career in 2025 as a linebacker from Menifee, CA wearing No. 44, spending time with Missouri State. The clearest part of Kanye Young's career was his defensive production: 77 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 interception across 14 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Missouri State. 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 Kanye Young's production has multiple signals. With 14 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Missouri State.

The arc is straightforward: Kanye Young 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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    Missouri State

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonMissouri State16.536.610.2
2025 Regular SeasonMissouri State16.536.610.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 69 Western Kentucky

Week 5 · L 22-27 · Conference game

Loss with 6 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

97.2 takeover

6 disruption/tackle impact with 97.2 takeover score.

#2

@ Ball State

Week 2

5

Havoc Plays

85.4 takeover

Game with backfield disruption leading the way.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 85.4 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 86 Marshall

Week 2 · W 21-20

3.5

Havoc Plays

74.2 takeover

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 74.2 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 100 Arkansas State

Week 1 · L 28-34 · Postseason

2

Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#5

vs UT Martin

Week 4 · W 42-10

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Havoc Plays

47 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Missouri State

16.5 primary output · 36.6 efficiency · 10.2 usage

61.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Missouri State

61.3

16.5 primary · 36.6 efficiency · 10.2 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

5

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games