Usage / Role
43%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2025-2025Rice
Braden Bays
DL • 6'3" • 259 lbs • Boerne, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Braden Bays shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
54
Solid production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
70
Reliable weekly contributor
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Star Power
44
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Rice
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 1
- Program Path
- Rice
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Texas State
Braden Bays, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Rice. Braden Bays shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 8
- TFL
- 1
Quick Answers
Braden Bays quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Rice · DL
- Career Tackles
- 8
- Tracked sample
- 1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Rice
- Top game
- Texas State
- Latest roster
- No. 94 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 8 tackles · DL 668th (top 62%) · American Athletic 339th (top 53%) · National 3,117th (top 51%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Postseason | Rice | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.7 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Rice | 3 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.7 |
Related Context
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Braden Bays played DL for Rice. Across 1 tracked season, Braden Bays recorded 8 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Rice.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Rice paired 1 primary output with 14.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 14.4 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: Texas State
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 Postseason · Rice
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
14.4
Usage
3
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Texas State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Texas State: 1. North Texas: 0. South Florida: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Texas State: 2 by 18.3. North Texas: 1 by 4.2. South Florida: 5 by 20.8
Split Comparison
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First Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs First Half
Game Log
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3 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Texas State
Best efficiency game
20.8 vs South Florida
Career Arc
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Rice
2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Postseason | Rice | 1 | 14.4 | 3 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Rice | 1 | 14.4 | 3 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 65 Texas State
Week 1 · L 10-41 · Postseason
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
55.3 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.3 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 29 South Florida
Week 14 · L 3-52 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
14.2 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.2 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 22 North Texas
Week 13 · L 24-56 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Rice
1 primary output · 14.4 efficiency · 3 usage
37.7
#2
2025 Regular Season · Rice
37.7
1 primary · 14.4 efficiency · 3 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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