Player Dossier

2024-2025

Sam Houston

Josiah Stephens

DL • 6'2" • 240 lbs • Spring, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Josiah Stephens shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

24

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

9

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

29

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

2425

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Sam Houston
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8156

Willis · Willis, TX

Committed To
Sam Houston
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Josiah Stephens, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston. Josiah Stephens shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4
TFL
0.5

Quick Answers

Josiah Stephens quick answers

Latest team and position
Sam Houston · DL
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 2 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
Top game
New Mexico State
Recruit profile
3-star · Willis · Sam Houston
High school pipeline
Willis · 12 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 94 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DL 830th (top 77%) · Conference USA 343rd (top 63%) · National 3,878th (top 63%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonSam Houston00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston240.50--034.4

Related Context

Josiah Stephens played DL for Sam Houston. Across 2 tracked seasons, Josiah Stephens recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Sam Houston.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Sam Houston paired 0.5 primary output with 10.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.8 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: New Mexico State

Loss with 0.5 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 · Sam Houston

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

10.8

Usage

3.2

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

New Mexico State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UNLV: 0. New Mexico State: 0.5

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

New Mexico State

Best efficiency game

13.3 vs New Mexico State

Result
Fri 10/3@ New Mexico StateL 10-37200.5000
Sat 8/30vs UNLVL 21-3821000

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Sam Houston

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonSam Houston0
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston0.510.83.20.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 123 New Mexico State

Week 6 · L 10-37 · Conference game

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5

Havoc Plays

33.6 takeover

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 33.6 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 57 UNLV

Week 1 · L 21-38

0

Havoc Plays

8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

0.5 primary output · 10.8 efficiency · 3.2 usage

34.4

#2

2024 Regular Season · Sam Houston

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games