Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Ball State
Layton Starks
LB • 6'4" • 235 lbs • Versailles, KY, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Layton Starks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
22
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
31
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Ball State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Michigan
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- Committed To
- Ball State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Layton Starks, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State. Layton Starks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 10
- TFL
- 1
Quick Answers
Layton Starks quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Ball State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 10
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Ball State
- Top game
- Eastern Michigan
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Woodford County · Ball State
- High school pipeline
- Woodford County · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 42 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 10 tackles · LB 762nd (top 60%) · Mid-American 273rd (top 48%) · National 2,965th (top 48%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Ball State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Regular Season | Ball State | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.8 |
Related Context
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Layton Starks played LB for Ball State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Layton Starks recorded 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Ball State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Ball State paired 1 primary output with 10.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10.3 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 Michigan
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Ball State
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0.2
Efficiency
10.3
Usage
3.6
Consistency
6.7
Best Game by takeover score
Eastern Michigan
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Purdue: 0. Ohio: 0. Northern Illinois: 0. Eastern Michigan: 1. 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. Purdue: 2 by 8.3. Ohio: 2 by 8.3. Northern Illinois: 3 by 12.5. Eastern Michigan: 2 by 18.3. Toledo: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
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5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Eastern Michigan
Best efficiency game
18.3 vs Eastern Michigan
Career Arc
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Ball State
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Ball State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Ball State | 1 | 10.3 | 3.6 | 1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 119 Eastern Michigan
Week 12 · L 9-24 · Conference game
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
72.2 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 72.2 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 128 Northern Illinois
Week 9 · L 7-21 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
9.4 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 90 Purdue
Week 1 · L 0-31
0
Havoc Plays
8.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 84 Ohio
Week 6 · W 20-14 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
6.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 48 Toledo
Week 13 · L 9-38 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Ball State
1 primary output · 10.3 efficiency · 3.6 usage
36.8
#2
2024 Regular Season · Ball State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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