Player Dossier

2023-2025

Marshall

Braydin Ward

DL • 6'6" • 237 lbs • Montgomery, WV, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Braydin Ward shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 33.6 disruption score.

Usage Score

7.4

Efficiency

33.6

Consistency

60.4

Season Value

50.4

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Marshall

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
3
Program Path
Marshall
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Kentucky

Scouting Read

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Braydin Ward, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Marshall. Braydin Ward shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 33.6 disruption score.

Braydin Ward played DL for Marshall. Across 3 tracked seasons, Braydin Ward recorded 32 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Marshall.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Marshall paired 16.5 primary output with 33.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 33.6 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: Eastern Kentucky

Win with 5.5 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 · Marshall

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

2.4

Efficiency

33.6

Usage

7.4

Consistency

60.4

Best Game by takeover score

Eastern Kentucky

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Georgia: 2. Missouri State: 4. Eastern Kentucky: 5.5. Louisiana: 2. Old Dominion: 0. Texas State: 2.5. Georgia Southern: 0.5

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. Georgia: 0 by 20. Missouri State: 3 by 52.5. Eastern Kentucky: 4 by 66.7. Louisiana: 1 by 24.2. Old Dominion: 1 by 4.2. Texas State: 3 by 37.5. Georgia Southern: 6 by 30

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.7 · Games = 3 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses2.1 · Games = 4 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Eastern Kentucky

Best efficiency game

66.7 vs Eastern Kentucky

Result
Sat 11/29vs Georgia SouthernL 19-24620.5000
Sat 10/18vs Texas StateSplash gameW 40-37311.5010
Sat 10/11vs Old DominionW 48-2411000
Sun 9/28@ LouisianaSplash gameL 51-5411110
Sat 9/13vs Eastern KentuckySplash gameW 38-74121.500
Sat 9/6vs Missouri StateSplash gameL 20-2131110
Sat 8/30@ GeorgiaSplash gameL 7-4500002

Career Arc

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    Marshall

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonMarshall0
2024 Regular SeasonMarshall4.517.244.5
2025 Regular SeasonMarshall16.533.67.412

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Eastern Kentucky

Win with 5.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5.5

Primary metric

5.5 disruption/tackle impact with 60.9 takeover score.

#2

James Madison

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 53.1 takeover score.

#3

Missouri State

4

Primary metric

Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 44.8 takeover score.

#4

Southern Miss

1.5

Primary metric

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 34.5 takeover score.

#5

Texas State

2.5

Primary metric

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 29.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Marshall

16.5 primary output · 33.6 efficiency · 7.4 usage

50.4

#2

2024 Regular Season · Marshall

21.9

4.5 primary · 17.2 efficiency · 4 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Marshall

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

6

Splash games

0

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

32

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 3 tracked seasons, 13 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.