Player Dossier

2024-2025

Colorado State

Owen Long

LB • 6'1" • 195 lbs • Whittier, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Owen Long shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 54.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

90

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

87

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Colorado State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Colorado State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Fresno State

Player Story

Owen Long built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Whittier, CA wearing No. 40, spending time with Colorado State. The clearest part of Owen Long's career was his defensive production: 192...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8417

La Serna · Whittier, CA

Committed To
Colorado State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Owen Long, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Colorado State. Owen Long shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 54.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
192
TFL
5.5
Sacks
2
Passes defended
7

Quick Answers

Owen Long quick answers

Latest team and position
Colorado State · LB
Career Tackles
192
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 24 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Colorado State
Top game
Fresno State
Recruit profile
3-star · La Serna · Colorado State
High school pipeline
La Serna · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 40 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
148 tackles · LB 1st (top 1%) · Mountain West 1st (top 1%) · National 1st (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 PostseasonColorado State127-0--017.3
2024 Regular SeasonColorado State12370.50-2017.3
2025 Regular SeasonColorado State1214852-5071.3

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Colorado State to Arizona StateG5/FCS to P486.3Jan 9, 2026

Owen Long played LB for Colorado State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Owen Long recorded 192 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Colorado State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Colorado State paired 12 primary output with 54.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 54.8 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: Fresno State

Win with 4 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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2025 Regular Season · Colorado State

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

54.8

Usage

12.8

Consistency

30.6

Best Game by takeover score

Fresno State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Washington: 0. Northern Colorado: 0.5. UTSA: 0.5. Washington State: 1.5. San Diego State: 0. Fresno State: 4. Hawai'i: 0. Wyoming: 0.5. UNLV: 2. New Mexico: 1. Boise State: 0. Air Force: 2

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Washington: 13 by 50. Northern Colorado: 11 by 50.8. UTSA: 14 by 55. Washington State: 14 by 65. San Diego State: 16 by 50. Fresno State: 17 by 90. Hawai'i: 8 by 33.3. Wyoming: 10 by 46.7. UNLV: 7 by 49.2. New Mexico: 12 by 60. Boise State: 9 by 37.5. Air Force: 17 by 70

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.3 · Games = 2 · +1.5 vs Losses
Losses0.8 · Games = 10 · -1.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Fresno State

Best efficiency game

90 vs Fresno State

Result
Fri 11/28vs Air Force10+ tackles · Splash gameL 21-42173110
Sun 11/23@ Boise StateL 21-4995000
Sat 11/15@ New Mexico10+ tacklesL 17-20124001
Sun 11/9vs UNLVSplash gameL 10-4273002
Sat 10/25@ Wyoming10+ tacklesL 0-281060.5000
Sat 10/18vs Hawai'iL 19-3183000
Sat 10/11vs Fresno State10+ tackles · Splash gameW 49-21179211
Sat 10/4@ San Diego State10+ tacklesL 24-45165000
Sat 9/27vs Washington State10+ tacklesL 3-201420.5001
Sun 9/21vs UTSA10+ tacklesL 16-171430.5000
Sat 9/6vs Northern Colorado10+ tacklesW 21-171140.5000
Sun 8/31@ Washington10+ tacklesL 21-381311000

Player Story

Owen Long story

Owen Long built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Whittier, CA wearing No. 40, spending time with Colorado State. The clearest part of Owen Long's career was his defensive production: 192 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 7 passes defended across 24 career games in the available record. That gives Owen Long's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Colorado State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonColorado State2.517.42.8
2024 Regular SeasonColorado State2.517.42.80
2025 Regular SeasonColorado State1254.812.89.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 66 Fresno State

Week 7 · W 49-21 · Conference game

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

96.7 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 96.7 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 80 Air Force

Week 14 · L 21-42 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

73.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.3 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 61 Washington State

Week 5 · L 3-20

1.5

Havoc Plays

66.9 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 66.9 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 62 UTSA

Week 4 · L 16-17

0.5

Havoc Plays

55.8 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 55.8 takeover score.

#5

vs Utah State

Week 14 · W 42-37 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Colorado State

12 primary output · 54.8 efficiency · 12.8 usage

71.3

#2

2024 Postseason · Colorado State

17.3

2.5 primary · 17.4 efficiency · 2.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Colorado State

17.3

2.5 primary · 17.4 efficiency · 2.8 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

9

10+ tackle games