Player Dossier

2014-2017

LSU

Donnie Alexander

LB • 6'1" • 212 lbs • New Orleans, LA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Donnie Alexander shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28 disruption score.

Usage / Role

35%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

56

Solid production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

52

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

lowhigh

Star Power

71

High-upside career profile

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · LSU

1415161617

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
LSU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida

Player Story

Donnie Alexander built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a linebacker from New Orleans, LA wearing No. 48, spending time with LSU. The clearest part of Donnie Alexander's career was his defensive...

Read the story
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8902

Hillsboro · Nashville, TN

Committed To
Georgia
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Donnie Alexander, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · LSU. Donnie Alexander shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
96
TFL
1.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Donnie Alexander quick answers

Latest team and position
LSU · LB
Career Tackles
96
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 20 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · LSU
Top game
Florida
Recruit profile
4-star · Hillsboro · Georgia
High school pipeline
Hillsboro · 16 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 48 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
51 tackles · LB 285th (top 26%) · SEC 66th (top 11%) · National 662nd (top 12%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonLSU00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonLSU00-0--0-
2016 PostseasonLSU114-0--043
2016 Regular SeasonLSU11410.5021043
2017 Regular SeasonLSU951112-043.8

Related Context

Donnie Alexander played LB for LSU. Across 4 tracked seasons, Donnie Alexander recorded 96 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with LSU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

LSU paired 4 primary output with 28 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 28 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

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2017 Regular Season · LSU

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

28

Usage

5.7

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Florida

Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

123456789

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Chattanooga: 1. Mississippi State: 1. Syracuse: 0. Troy: 0. Florida: 2. Auburn: 0. Alabama: 0. Arkansas: 0. Texas A&M: 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.

Low volumeHigh quality

High volumeHigh quality

Low volumeLower quality

High volumeLower quality

Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Chattanooga: 8 by 43.3. Mississippi State: 3 by 22.5. Syracuse: 5 by 20.8. Troy: 8 by 33.3. Florida: 5 by 40.8. Auburn: 4 by 16.7. Alabama: 4 by 16.7. Arkansas: 12 by 50. Texas A&M: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.2 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

Florida

Best efficiency game

50 vs Arkansas

Result
Sun 11/26vs Texas A&MW 45-2121000
Sat 11/11vs Arkansas10+ tacklesW 33-10125000
Sun 11/5@ AlabamaL 10-2442000
Sat 10/14vs AuburnW 27-2341000
Sat 10/7@ FloridaSplash gameW 17-1652110
Sat 9/30vs TroyL 21-2481000
Sat 9/23vs SyracuseW 35-2651000
Sat 9/16@ Mississippi StateL 7-3731000
Sat 9/9vs ChattanoogaW 45-1082000

Player Story

Donnie Alexander story

Donnie Alexander built his college career from 2014 through 2017 as a linebacker from New Orleans, LA wearing No. 48, spending time with LSU. The clearest part of Donnie Alexander's career was his defensive production: 96 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 1 interception across 20 career games in the available record. That gives Donnie Alexander's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    LSU

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20142015201620162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonLSU0
2015 Regular SeasonLSU00
2016 PostseasonLSU4.521.14.64.5
2016 Regular SeasonLSU4.521.14.60
2017 Regular SeasonLSU4285.7-0.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Florida

Week 6 · W 17-16 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#2

@ Texas A&M

Week 13 · W 54-39 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

71.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Missouri

Week 5 · W 42-7 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

57.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.2 takeover score.

#4

vs Chattanooga

Week 2 · W 45-10

1

Havoc Plays

55 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 55 takeover score.

#5

@ Mississippi State

Week 3 · L 7-37 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

48.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · LSU

4 primary output · 28 efficiency · 5.7 usage

43.8

#2

2016 Postseason · LSU

43

4.5 primary · 21.1 efficiency · 4.6 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · LSU

43

4.5 primary · 21.1 efficiency · 4.6 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games