Player Dossier

2025-2025

NC State

AJ Richardson

LB • 6'1" • 245 lbs • Kings Mountain, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

AJ Richardson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

12%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

53

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

75

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

47

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

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

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
NC State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: North Carolina

AJ Richardson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · NC State. AJ Richardson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
12
QB hurries
3

Quick Answers

AJ Richardson quick answers

Latest team and position
NC State · LB
Career Tackles
12
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · NC State
Top game
North Carolina
Latest roster
No. 41 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · LB 687th (top 54%) · ACC 342nd (top 43%) · National 2,665th (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 Regular SeasonNC State312-03-058.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Unlisted to NC StateUnlisted to P479.1Dec 25, 2024

AJ Richardson played LB for NC State. Across 1 tracked season, AJ Richardson recorded 12 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with NC State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

NC State paired 3 primary output with 26.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 26.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: North Carolina

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · NC State

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

26.7

Usage

5.7

Consistency

61.7

Best Game by takeover score

North Carolina

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. East Carolina: 1. Virginia: 0. North Carolina: 2

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. East Carolina: 3 by 22.5. Virginia: 5 by 20.8. North Carolina: 4 by 36.7

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.5 · Games = 2 · -1.5 vs Second Half
Second Half2 · Games = 1 · +1.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

North Carolina

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs North Carolina

Result
Sun 11/30vs North CarolinaSplash gameW 42-1943000
Sat 9/6vs VirginiaW 35-3153000
Thu 8/28vs East CarolinaW 24-1730000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    NC State

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 Regular SeasonNC State326.75.7

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 91 North Carolina

Week 14 · W 42-19 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

71.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.1 takeover score.

#2

@ Temple

Week 3

0.5

Havoc Plays

37.9 takeover

Game with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 37.9 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 38 East Carolina

Week 1 · W 24-17

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Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 31 Virginia

Week 2 · W 35-31 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

16.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 16.1 takeover score.

#5

@ East Carolina

Week 1

0

Havoc Plays

6.3 takeover

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · NC State

3 primary output · 26.7 efficiency · 5.7 usage

58.9

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games