Player Dossier

2015-2017

Kentucky

Courtney Love

LB • 6'2" • 242 lbs • Youngstown, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Courtney Love shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 35.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

86%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

74

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · Kentucky

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida

Player Story

Courtney Love built his college career from 2015 through 2017 as a linebacker from Youngstown, OH wearing No. 51, spending time with Kentucky. The clearest part of Courtney Love's career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2013 · Rating 0.8794

Cardinal Mooney · Youngstown, OH

Committed To
Nebraska
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2013

Courtney Love, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · Kentucky. Courtney Love shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 35.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
168
TFL
4.5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Courtney Love quick answers

Latest team and position
Kentucky · LB
Career Tackles
168
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 26 games
Best season
2017 Postseason · Kentucky
Top game
Florida
Recruit profile
3-star · Cardinal Mooney · Nebraska
High school pipeline
Cardinal Mooney · 22 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 51 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
92 tackles · LB 80th (top 8%) · SEC 11th (top 2%) · National 114th (top 2%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonKentucky00-0--0-
2016 PostseasonKentucky138-01-038.1
2016 Regular SeasonKentucky13681111038.1
2017 PostseasonKentucky1310-0-1053.3
2017 Regular SeasonKentucky13823.51-2053.3

Related Context

Courtney Love played LB for Kentucky. Across 3 tracked seasons, Courtney Love recorded 168 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Postseason

Kentucky paired 7.5 primary output with 35.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 35.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2017 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Florida

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2017 Postseason · Kentucky

Games

13

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

35.3

Usage

7.5

Consistency

15.4

Best Game by takeover score

Florida

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Northwestern: 1. Southern Miss: 1. Eastern Kentucky: 0. South Carolina: 1. Florida: 2. Eastern Michigan: 0. Missouri: 0. Mississippi State: 0. Tennessee: 0. Ole Miss: 2. Vanderbilt: 0. Georgia: 0. Louisville: 0.5

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Northwestern: 10 by 51.7. Southern Miss: 9 by 47.5. Eastern Kentucky: 8 by 33.3. South Carolina: 6 by 35. Florida: 7 by 49.2. Eastern Michigan: 3 by 12.5. Missouri: 10 by 41.7. Mississippi State: 8 by 33.3. Tennessee: 7 by 29.2. Ole Miss: 6 by 45. Vanderbilt: 3 by 12.5. Georgia: 5 by 20.8. Louisville: 10 by 46.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 7 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 6 · +0.6 vs Wins

Game Log

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

13 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Florida

Best efficiency game

51.7 vs Northwestern

Result
Fri 12/29@ Northwestern10+ tacklesL 23-24103001
Sat 11/25vs Louisville10+ tacklesL 17-441020.5000
Sat 11/18@ GeorgiaL 13-4253000
Sat 11/11@ VanderbiltW 44-2133000
Sat 11/4vs Ole MissSplash gameL 34-3762110
Sat 10/28vs TennesseeW 29-2673000
Sat 10/21@ Mississippi StateL 7-4583000
Sat 10/7vs Missouri10+ tacklesW 40-34104000
Sat 9/30vs Eastern MichiganW 24-2031000
Sat 9/23vs FloridaSplash gameL 27-2873101
Sat 9/16@ South CarolinaW 23-1361001
Sat 9/9vs Eastern KentuckyW 27-1682000
Sat 9/2@ Southern MissW 24-1794100

Player Story

Courtney Love story

Courtney Love built his college career from 2015 through 2017 as a linebacker from Youngstown, OH wearing No. 51, spending time with Kentucky. The clearest part of Courtney Love's career was his defensive production: 168 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 26 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2017 with Kentucky. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Courtney Love's production has multiple signals. With 26 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kentucky.

The arc is straightforward: Courtney Love moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Kentucky

    2015-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20152016201620172017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonKentucky0
2016 PostseasonKentucky528.25.75
2016 Regular SeasonKentucky528.25.70
2017 PostseasonKentucky7.535.37.52.5
2017 Regular SeasonKentucky7.535.37.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Florida

Week 4 · L 27-28 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

83.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 83.1 takeover score.

#2

@ Alabama

Week 5 · L 6-34 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

81.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Ole Miss

Week 10 · L 34-37 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

81.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Georgia Tech

Week 1 · L 18-33 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

64.4 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.4 takeover score.

#5

@ Southern Miss

Week 1 · W 24-17

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Havoc Plays

61.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Postseason · Kentucky

7.5 primary output · 35.3 efficiency · 7.5 usage

53.3

#2

2017 Regular Season · Kentucky

53.3

7.5 primary · 35.3 efficiency · 7.5 usage

#3

2016 Postseason · Kentucky

38.1

5 primary · 28.2 efficiency · 5.7 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

3

Splash games

3

10+ tackle games