Player Dossier

2025-2025

Florida

Lagonza Hayward

DB • 6'1" • 206 lbs • Lyons, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Lagonza Hayward shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

21%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

56

Solid production for a defensive back

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Reliability

30

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

71

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Florida
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Player Story

Lagonza Hayward built his college career in 2025 as a defensive back from Lyons, GA wearing No. 2, spending time with Florida. The clearest part of Lagonza Hayward's career was his defensive production: 12 tackles,...

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4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.9599

Toombs County · Lyons, GA

Committed To
Florida
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Lagonza Hayward, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Florida. Lagonza Hayward shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
12
TFL
3.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Lagonza Hayward quick answers

Latest team and position
Florida · DB
Career Tackles
12
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 6 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Florida
Top game
Mississippi State
Recruit profile
4-star · Toombs County · Florida
High school pipeline
Toombs County · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 2 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · DB 549th (top 57%) · SEC 330th (top 44%) · National 2,728th (top 44%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida6123.512-057.9

Related Context

Lagonza Hayward played DB for Florida. Across 1 tracked season, Lagonza Hayward recorded 12 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Florida.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Florida paired 6.5 primary output with 19.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Florida

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

1.1

Efficiency

19.2

Usage

6.6

Consistency

57.7

Best Game by takeover score

Mississippi State

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Long Island University: 0. Mississippi State: 2.5. Kentucky: 1. Ole Miss: 2. Tennessee: 1. Florida State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Long Island University: 1 by 4.2. Mississippi State: 6 by 50. Kentucky: 0 by 10. Ole Miss: 1 by 24.2. Tennessee: 1 by 14.2. Florida State: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 3 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses1.3 · Games = 3 · +0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Mississippi State

Best efficiency game

50 vs Mississippi State

Result
Sat 11/29vs Florida StateW 40-2132000
Sun 11/23vs TennesseeL 11-3110000
Sun 11/16@ Ole MissSplash gameL 24-3411110
Sun 11/9@ KentuckyL 7-3800000
Sat 10/18vs Mississippi StateSplash gameW 23-21642.5000
Sat 8/30vs Long Island UniversityW 55-010000

Player Story

Lagonza Hayward story

Lagonza Hayward built his college career in 2025 as a defensive back from Lyons, GA wearing No. 2, spending time with Florida. The clearest part of Lagonza Hayward's career was his defensive production: 12 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 6 career games in the available record. That gives Lagonza Hayward's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Florida

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida6.519.26.6

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 58 Mississippi State

Week 8 · W 23-21 · Conference game

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

79.7 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 79.7 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 7 Ole Miss

Week 12 · L 24-34 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

56.1 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 56.1 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 19 Tennessee

Week 13 · L 11-31 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

1

Havoc Plays

42.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.8 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 66 Kentucky

Week 11 · L 7-38 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

39.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 39.7 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 41 Florida State

Week 14 · W 40-21

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Havoc Plays

10.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Florida

6.5 primary output · 19.2 efficiency · 6.6 usage

57.9

Milestones

1

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games