Usage / Role
2%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Akron
Rich Benenge
LB • 6'1" • 215 lbs • Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Rich Benenge shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.
Impact Production
9
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
10
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
19
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Akron
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Akron
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Colgate
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- Committed To
- Akron
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Rich Benenge, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Akron. Rich Benenge shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 15
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Rich Benenge quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Akron · LB
- Career Tackles
- 15
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 10 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Akron
- Top game
- Colgate
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Harrisburg · Akron
- High school pipeline
- Harrisburg · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 4 tackles · LB 996th (top 79%) · Mid-American 376th (top 65%) · National 3,952nd (top 64%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Akron | 7 | 11 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 31.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Akron | 3 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.9 |
Related Context
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Akron to Unlisted | G5/FCS to Unlisted | 19.6 | Jan 2, 2026 |
Rich Benenge played LB for Akron. Across 2 tracked seasons, Rich Benenge recorded 15 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Akron.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Akron paired 0 primary output with 5.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 5.6 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: Duquesne
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Akron
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
5.6
Usage
1
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Duquesne
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Nebraska: 0. Duquesne: 0. Toledo: 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. Nebraska: 1 by 4.2. Duquesne: 2 by 8.3. Toledo: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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3 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Duquesne
Best efficiency game
8.3 vs Duquesne
Career Arc
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- 1
Akron
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Akron | 1 | 8 | 1.5 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Akron | 0 | 5.6 | 1 | -1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Colgate
Week 3 · W 31-20
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
36.7 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.
#2
@ Ohio State
Week 1 · L 6-52
0
Havoc Plays
18.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 18.3 takeover score.
#3
@ South Carolina
Week 4 · L 7-50
0
Havoc Plays
9.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.7 takeover score.
#4
vs Buffalo
Week 10 · L 30-41 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
6.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.
#5
vs Duquesne
Week 4 · W 51-7
0
Havoc Plays
6.7 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Akron
0 primary output · 5.6 efficiency · 1 usage
37.9
#2
2024 Regular Season · Akron
31.3
1 primary · 8 efficiency · 1.5 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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