Player Dossier

2025-2025

Vanderbilt

Austin Howard

LB • 6'2" • 235 lbs • Bartlett, TN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Austin Howard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.2 disruption score.

Usage Score

1.9

Efficiency

7.2

Consistency

5.6

Season Value

6.8

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
2
Program Path
Vanderbilt
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Georgia State

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Austin Howard, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt. Austin Howard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.2 disruption score.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Vanderbilt paired 1 primary output with 7.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 7.2 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: Georgia State

Win with 1 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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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

7.2

Usage

1.9

Consistency

5.6

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Iowa: 0. Unknown: 0. Georgia State: 1. Utah State: 0. Alabama: 0. Kentucky: 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. Iowa: 1 by 4.2. Unknown: 2 by 8.3. Georgia State: 1 by 14.2. Utah State: 1 by 4.2. Alabama: 1 by 4.2. Kentucky: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -0.3 vs Wins
First Half0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Georgia State

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs Georgia State

Result
Wed 12/31vs IowaL 27-3410000
Sat 11/22vs KentuckyW 45-1720000
Sat 10/4@ AlabamaL 14-3011000
Sat 9/27vs Utah StateW 55-3510000
Sat 9/20vs Georgia StateW 70-2111100
Sat 8/30vs Unknown21000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Vanderbilt

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonVanderbilt17.21.9
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt17.21.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Georgia State

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 39.9 takeover score.

#2

Unknown

0

Primary metric

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.5 takeover score.

#3

Kentucky

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

Iowa

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 1.7 takeover score.

#5

Utah State

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 1.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2025 Postseason · Vanderbilt

1 primary output · 7.2 efficiency · 1.9 usage

6.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

6.8

1 primary · 7.2 efficiency · 1.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

4★

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8953

Bartlett · Bartlett, TN

Committed To
Vanderbilt
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Career Facts

1

Career teams

2

Seasons tracked

8

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 2 tracked seasons, 6 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.

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Recruiting profile

4-star recruit

Position
LB
Teams played for
1
Seasons tracked
2
Career tackles
8