Player Dossier

2013-2016

Vanderbilt

Nigel Bowden

ILB • 6'1" • Macon, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Nigel Bowden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.4 disruption score.

Usage Score

3.6

Efficiency

19.4

Consistency

100

Season Value

41

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
Vanderbilt
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

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.

Nigel Bowden, ILB. Best season Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season · Vanderbilt. Nigel Bowden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.4 disruption score.

Nigel Bowden played ILB for Vanderbilt. Across 4 tracked seasons, Nigel Bowden recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Vanderbilt.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Vanderbilt paired 0 primary output with 19.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2016 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2016 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Win with 0 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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2016 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

19.4

Usage

3.6

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Georgia Tech

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. South Carolina: 0. Middle Tennessee: 0. Georgia Tech: 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. South Carolina: 3 by 12.5. Middle Tennessee: 6 by 25. Georgia Tech: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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

Losses0 · Games = 2
First Half0 · Games = 2
All Games0 · Games = 3

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

Best efficiency game

25 vs Middle Tennessee

Result
Sat 9/17@ Georgia TechL 7-3853000
Sat 9/10vs Middle TennesseeW 47-2461000
Fri 9/2vs South CarolinaL 10-1331000

Career Arc

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

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    Vanderbilt

    2013-2016

    Opening stop

Season Progression

2013201420152016
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2013 Regular SeasonVanderbilt0
2014 Regular SeasonVanderbilt00
2015 Regular SeasonVanderbilt00
2016 Regular SeasonVanderbilt019.43.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Middle Tennessee

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Primary metric

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.5 takeover score.

#2

Georgia Tech

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.5 takeover score.

#3

South Carolina

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2016 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

0 primary output · 19.4 efficiency · 3.6 usage

41

#2

2013 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2014 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2013 · Rating 0.8783

Central · Macon, GA

Committed To
Vanderbilt
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2013

Career Facts

1

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

14

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 3 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.