Brandon Rawls

Senior linebacker for Oklahoma State. 2025: 68 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.

LB · Oklahoma State · Sr. · #6

6′0″ · 240 lb · Ypsilanti, MI

CFB Index 48 · #312 of 583 LBsHigh confidenceReturning to Oklahoma State for 2026

How he plays

Is steady in every phase without a signature trait.

Tackles: 90th percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

tackles · 2025

4.5 TFL · 1.5 sacks

Best game: 11 tackles, 1.5 TFL, 1 sacks, vs UT Martin

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 linebacker for Oklahoma State. 2025: 68 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.

Transferred from Saginaw Valley State to Oklahoma State in 2025.

His career, year by year

Brandon Rawls

LB · Oklahoma State · Sr · #6

Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. He got to Oklahoma State by way of Saginaw Valley State. The receipt on tape: 11 tackles, 1.5 TFL against UT Martin, Week 1, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025Oklahoma State1-11HC: Doug Meacham · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

48Rotational starter #312 of 583?

High confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles (90th percentile). Strength: solo tackles (82nd percentile). Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Tackles#293 / 2975 · 90th pct

Solo tackles#515 / 2975 · 82nd pct

Tackles for loss#648 / 2975 · 77th pct

4.5

Sacks#707 / 2975 · 74th pct

1.5

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home7g	5.9	0.3	0.1	0.0
Road5g	5.4	0.5	0.1	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	6.7	0.3	0.2	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	4.7	0.4	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Eric Morris

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

48 · #312 of 583 LBs

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #41 of 73 Big 12 LBs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Oklahoma State	68	30	4.5	1.5	--	--	--
Career		68	30	4.5	1.5	--	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025

W 27–7

vs UT Martin

1 TFL · 1 SACKS · 6 SOLO

With W. Pahl — 48 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 56 LONG · H. Hejny — 96 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 83.3 · 27 rush yds (4 car) · 1 TD

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 27-7vs UT Martin	11	6	1.5	1.0	—	Season-high 11 tackles
Wk 2	L 3-69@ Oregon	8	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 4	L 12-19vs Tulsa	7	3	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 5	L 27-45vs Baylor	6	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 6	L 13-41@ Arizona	4	1	0.5	0.5	—
Wk 7	L 17-39vs Houston	4	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 8	L 17-49vs Cincinnati	6	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 9	L 0-42@ Texas Tech	5	4	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 10	L 21-38@ Kansas	5	4	2.0	0.0	—
Wk 12	L 6-14vs Kansas State	6	3	0.5	0.0	—
Wk 13	L 14-17@ UCF	5	4	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 14	L 13-20vs Iowa State	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Total		68	30	4.5	1.5	—

How he plays

Play style

Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

12 games

68Tackles

30Solo

4.5TFL

1.5Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

68 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 4.5 TFL.

Week 11 sack
Week 60.5 sacks

Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.

2026 Outlook

Oklahoma State

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Linebacker · Oklahoma State

Returning around him

Transfer portal: -10 net (55 in / 65 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Oklahoma State · Last season: 1-11 · Talent rank #65 · 2026 recruiting class #69

DNA match

Player DNA

Balanced Linebacker

Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Joseph Carter’s 2025 season.

Joseph Carter

78%match

Liberty · 2025

Gerry Vaughn

Iowa State · 2022

78%

Dylan Hazen

Wake Forest · 2024

77%

Ezekiel Noa

Boise State · 2021

77%

Delano Robinson

SMU · 2021

All-AAC

76%

Matches Joseph on

Solo tackle rate

Hurry rate

Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to KD Davis's freshman season at North Texas (2020).

KD Davis

80%match

North Texas · 2020

All-Conference USA

Eldrick Robinson II

Georgia Southern · 2021

All-Sun Belt

80%

Jurriente Davis

Middle Tennessee · 2021

77%

Jason Henderson

Old Dominion · 2021

1st-team All-American

77%

Stephen Forester

UTEP · 2020

All-Conference USA

76%

Matches KD on

Weight

Solo tackle rate

Sack rate

Differs from KD on

Hurry rate (lower)

Player DNA

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Joseph Carter

Liberty · 2025

78%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

202512 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Balanced Linebacker

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