Usage / Role
2%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Western Michigan
Braden Steely
S • 5'11" • 192 lbs • Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Braden Steely shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
9
Developing production for a safety
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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 Postseason · Western Michigan
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Western Michigan
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Rhode Island
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- Committed To
- Western Michigan
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Braden Steely, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Western Michigan. Braden Steely shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 4
Quick Answers
Braden Steely quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Western Michigan · S
- Career Tackles
- 4
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 4 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Western Michigan
- Top game
- Rhode Island
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Carroll · Western Michigan
- High school pipeline
- Carroll · 7 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 19 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 4 tackles · S 418th (top 75%) · Mid-American 352nd (top 61%) · National 3,758th (top 61%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Western Michigan | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Postseason | Western Michigan | 4 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Western Michigan | 4 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.2 |
Related Context
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Braden Steely played S for Western Michigan. Across 2 tracked seasons, Braden Steely recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Western Michigan.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Western Michigan paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Rhode Island
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 Postseason · Western Michigan
Games
4
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.9
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Rhode Island
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Kennesaw State: 0. Rhode Island: 0. Ball State: 0. Northern Illinois: 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. Rhode Island: 2 by 8.3. Ball State: 1 by 4.2. Northern Illinois: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs First Half
Game Log
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4 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Rhode Island
Best efficiency game
8.3 vs Rhode Island
Career Arc
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- 1
Western Michigan
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Western Michigan | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Postseason | Western Michigan | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Western Michigan | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Rhode Island
Week 5 · W 47-14
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Havoc Plays
7.8 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.8 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 132 Ball State
Week 7 · W 42-0 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 128 Northern Illinois
Week 13 · W 35-19 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 89 Kennesaw State
Week 1 · W 41-6 · Postseason
0
Havoc Plays
0 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 0 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Western Michigan
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
37.2
#2
2025 Regular Season · Western Michigan
37.2
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Western Michigan
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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