Player Dossier

2023-2025

UTEP

Lantz Russell

S • 6'3" • 210 lbs • Riverside, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Lantz Russell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.3 disruption score.

Usage Score

2.5

Efficiency

16.3

Consistency

13.3

Season Value

19.9

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · UTEP

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
3
Program Path
UTEP
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida International

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Lantz Russell, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · UTEP. Lantz Russell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.3 disruption score.

Lantz Russell played S for UTEP. Across 3 tracked seasons, Lantz Russell recorded 83 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UTEP.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

UTEP paired 10.5 primary output with 33 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Liberty

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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2025 Regular Season · UTEP

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

16.3

Usage

2.5

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Liberty

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah State: 1. UT Martin: 0. Texas: 0. Louisiana Tech: 1. Liberty: 2. Sam Houston: 0. Jacksonville State: 1. Missouri State: 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. Utah State: 3 by 22.5. UT Martin: 1 by 4.2. Texas: 2 by 8.3. Louisiana Tech: 2 by 18.3. Liberty: 5 by 40.8. Sam Houston: 1 by 4.2. Jacksonville State: 4 by 26.7. Missouri State: 5 by 20.8. New Mexico State: 1 by 4.2. Delaware: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 8 · +0.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Liberty

Best efficiency game

40.8 vs Liberty

Result
Sat 11/29@ DelawareL 31-6130000
Sat 11/22vs New Mexico StateL 31-3411000
Sat 11/15@ Missouri StateL 24-3853000
Sat 11/8vs Jacksonville StateL 27-3042001
Wed 10/15@ Sam HoustonW 35-1710000
Thu 10/9vs LibertySplash gameL 8-1952110
Sun 9/28vs Louisiana TechL 11-3022001
Sat 9/13@ TexasL 10-2721000
Sun 9/7vs UT MartinW 42-1711000
Sat 8/30@ Utah StateL 16-2830001

Career Arc

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    UTEP

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonUTEP04.20.9
2024 Regular SeasonUTEP10.533710.5
2025 Regular SeasonUTEP516.32.5-5.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Florida International

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5

Primary metric

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 64.8 takeover score.

#2

Western Kentucky

3

Primary metric

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 60.7 takeover score.

#3

Liberty

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 50.4 takeover score.

#4

Colorado State

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 31.4 takeover score.

#5

Jacksonville State

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 26.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · UTEP

10.5 primary output · 33 efficiency · 7 usage

43.1

#2

2023 Regular Season · UTEP

35

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · UTEP

19.9

5 primary · 16.3 efficiency · 2.5 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

4

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit context is not available for this player in the current dataset.

Career Facts

1

Career teams

3

Seasons tracked

83

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 3 tracked seasons, 22 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.

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