Player Dossier

2023-2025

New Mexico State

Tyler Martinez

LB • 6'2" • 225 lbs • Albuquerque, NM, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tyler Martinez shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

68%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

71

High-end production for a linebacker

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Reliability

75

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

77

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · New Mexico State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
New Mexico State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Kentucky

Player Story

Tyler Martinez built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Albuquerque, NM wearing No. 35, spending time with New Mexico State. The clearest part of Tyler Martinez's career was his defensive...

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Tyler Martinez, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · New Mexico State. Tyler Martinez shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
142
TFL
6
Sacks
1
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
5

Quick Answers

Tyler Martinez quick answers

Latest team and position
New Mexico State · LB
Career Tackles
142
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 24 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · New Mexico State
Top game
Western Kentucky
Latest roster
No. 35 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
27 tackles · LB 513th (top 41%) · Conference USA 147th (top 27%) · National 1,609th (top 26%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 PostseasonNew Mexico State84-0--035.8
2023 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State8172.5011035.8
2024 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State12942.51-1047.2
2025 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State4271013069.1

Related Context

Tyler Martinez played LB for New Mexico State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Tyler Martinez recorded 142 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with New Mexico State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

New Mexico State paired 6 primary output with 43.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 36.4 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: Western Kentucky

Loss with 2 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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2024 Regular Season · New Mexico State

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

36.4

Usage

8.3

Consistency

8.3

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. Southeast Missouri State: 0. Liberty: 0. Fresno State: 0. Sam Houston: 1.5. New Mexico: 0. Jacksonville State: 0. Louisiana Tech: 0. Florida International: 1. Western Kentucky: 2. Texas A&M: 0. Middle Tennessee: 0. UTEP: 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. Southeast Missouri State: 8 by 33.3. Liberty: 5 by 20.8. Fresno State: 3 by 12.5. Sam Houston: 8 by 48.3. New Mexico: 11 by 45.8. Jacksonville State: 7 by 29.2. Louisiana Tech: 11 by 45.8. Florida International: 8 by 43.3. Western Kentucky: 8 by 53.3. Texas A&M: 9 by 37.5. Middle Tennessee: 10 by 41.7. UTEP: 6 by 25

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 3 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 9 · +0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Western Kentucky

Best efficiency game

53.3 vs Western Kentucky

Result
Sat 11/30vs UTEPL 35-4260000
Sat 11/23@ Middle Tennessee10+ tacklesW 36-21106000
Sun 11/17@ Texas A&ML 3-3899000
Sat 11/9vs Western KentuckySplash gameL 28-4184110
Tue 10/29@ Florida InternationalL 13-3485001
Wed 10/16vs Louisiana Tech10+ tacklesW 33-30112000
Wed 10/9@ Jacksonville StateL 13-5472000
Sun 9/29vs New Mexico10+ tacklesL 40-50113000
Sat 9/21@ Sam HoustonL 11-31871.5000
Sun 9/15@ Fresno StateL 0-4830000
Sun 9/8vs LibertyL 24-3052000
Sun 9/1vs Southeast Missouri StateW 23-1685000

Player Story

Tyler Martinez story

Tyler Martinez built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Albuquerque, NM wearing No. 35, spending time with New Mexico State. The clearest part of Tyler Martinez's career was his defensive production: 142 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 interception across 24 career games in the available record. That gives Tyler Martinez's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    New Mexico State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 PostseasonNew Mexico State4.516.64.7
2023 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State4.516.64.70
2024 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State4.536.48.30
2025 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State643.17.31.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Western Kentucky

Week 11 · L 28-41 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

84.4 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 84.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Bryant

Week 1 · W 19-3

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Havoc Plays

80.8 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 77 Louisiana Tech

Week 3 · L 14-49 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

76.4 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.

#4

@ Liberty

Week 2 · L 17-33 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

76.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.

#5

@ Sam Houston

Week 4 · L 11-31 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

74.4 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 74.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · New Mexico State

6 primary output · 43.1 efficiency · 7.3 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · New Mexico State

47.2

4.5 primary · 36.4 efficiency · 8.3 usage

#3

2023 Postseason · New Mexico State

35.8

4.5 primary · 16.6 efficiency · 4.7 usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

5

Splash games

3

10+ tackle games