Player Dossier

2013-2017

Oregon State

Brandon Arnold

S • 5'11" • 205 lbs • Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Arnold shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

23%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

36

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

26

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

55

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Oregon State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Oregon State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon

Player Story

Brandon Arnold built his college career from 2013 through 2017 as a safety from Los Angeles, CA wearing No. 3, spending time with Oregon State. The clearest part of Brandon Arnold's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8156

Deerfield Beach · Deerfield Beach, FL

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Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Brandon Arnold, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Oregon State. Brandon Arnold shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
93
TFL
2
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Brandon Arnold quick answers

Latest team and position
Oregon State · S
Career Tackles
93
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 22 games
Best season
2015 Regular Season · Oregon State
Top game
Oregon
Recruit profile
3-star · Deerfield Beach
High school pipeline
Deerfield Beach · 43 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 3 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
25 tackles · S 194th (top 47%) · Pac-12 151st (top 29%) · National 1,658th (top 29%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2013 Regular SeasonOregon State00-0--0-
2014 Regular SeasonOregon State00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonOregon State10-0--051.1
2016 Regular SeasonOregon State126810-1043.3
2017 Regular SeasonOregon State92510-1038.3

Related Context

Brandon Arnold played S for Oregon State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Brandon Arnold recorded 93 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Oregon State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season

Oregon State paired 1 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2017 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Portland State

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2017 Regular Season · Oregon State

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

14.9

Usage

3.2

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Portland State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Portland State: 1. Colorado State: 1. Minnesota: 0. Washington: 1. USC: 0. Colorado: 0. California: 0. Arizona State: 0. Oregon: 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. Portland State: 4 by 26.7. Colorado State: 7 by 39.2. Minnesota: 1 by 4.2. Washington: 2 by 18.3. USC: 2 by 8.3. Colorado: 3 by 12.5. California: 3 by 12.5. Arizona State: 1 by 4.2. Oregon: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 1 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 8 · -0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Portland State

Best efficiency game

39.2 vs Colorado State

Result
Sun 11/26@ OregonL 10-6922000
Sat 11/18vs Arizona StateL 24-4011000
Sat 11/4@ CaliforniaL 23-3732000
Sat 10/14vs ColoradoL 33-3631000
Sat 10/7@ USCL 10-3822000
Sun 10/1vs WashingtonL 7-4221100
Sun 9/10vs MinnesotaL 14-4810000
Sat 9/2vs Portland StateW 35-32430010
Sat 8/26@ Colorado StateL 27-5873001

Player Story

Brandon Arnold story

Brandon Arnold built his college career from 2013 through 2017 as a safety from Los Angeles, CA wearing No. 3, spending time with Oregon State. The clearest part of Brandon Arnold's career was his defensive production: 93 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 3 interceptions, and 2 passes defended across 22 career games in the available record. That gives Brandon Arnold's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Oregon State

    2013-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20132014201520162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2013 Regular SeasonOregon State0
2014 Regular SeasonOregon State00
2015 Regular SeasonOregon State1201
2016 Regular SeasonOregon State326.14.72
2017 Regular SeasonOregon State314.93.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Oregon

Week 13 · W 34-24 · Conference game

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5

Havoc Plays

70.3 takeover

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 70.3 takeover score.

#2

vs Portland State

Week 1 · W 35-32

1

Havoc Plays

69.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 69.5 takeover score.

#3

@ Washington State

Week 7 · L 31-52 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#4

vs Washington

Week 5 · L 7-42 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

58.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.6 takeover score.

#5

@ Colorado State

Week 1 · L 27-58

1

Havoc Plays

58.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2015 Regular Season · Oregon State

1 primary output · 20 efficiency · usage

51.1

#2

2016 Regular Season · Oregon State

43.3

3 primary · 26.1 efficiency · 4.7 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · Oregon State

38.3

3 primary · 14.9 efficiency · 3.2 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

0

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games