Brayden Johnson

Senior linebacker for Wyoming. 2025: 74 tackles, 5 tackles for loss.

LB · Wyoming · Sr. · #9

6′3″ · 245 lb · Ringling, OK

CFB Index 67 · #148 of 583 LBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceReturning to Wyoming for 2026

How he plays

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.

Solo tackles: 95th percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

tackles · 2025

5 TFL · 3 PBU

Best game: 8 tackles, 1 INT, at Akron

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 linebacker for Wyoming. 2025: 74 tackles, 5 tackles for loss.

Transferred from Oklahoma Baptist to Wyoming in 2025.

His career, year by year

Brayden Johnson

LB · Wyoming · Sr · #9

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles. Oklahoma Baptist to Wyoming — the move that set up everything since. 2025 brought the first one: All-Mountain West. The receipt: 13 tackles, 1 TFL against Nevada — Week 13, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025Wyoming4-8HC: Jay Sawvel · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

67Quality starter #148 of 583?

High confidence7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: solo tackles (95th percentile). Strength: tackles (93rd percentile). Concern: sacks (24th percentile).

Box-score production (7)

Solo tackles#137 / 2975 · 95th pct

Tackles#216 / 2975 · 93rd pct

Tackles for loss#553 / 2975 · 80th pct

5.0

Passes defended#517 / 2975 · 78th pct

Interceptions#114 / 817 · 75th pct

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

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 · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home5g	7.0	0.8	0.0	0.4
Road6g	6.5	0.2	0.0	0.2

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-75g	6.0	0.6	0.0	0.4
Weeks 8+6g	7.3	0.3	0.0	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jay Sawvel

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

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

67 · #148 of 583 LBs

Unranked recruit. Now #148 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-Mountain West

Based on 2025: #9 of 45 Mountain West LBs

How the All-Mountain West estimate is computed

35% estimated, 95% confidence interval 31–38%. 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	Wyoming	74	44	5.0	0.0	3	2	--
Career		74	44	5.0	0.0	3	2	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025

W 31–7

vs Northern Iowa

3 SOLO · 6 TOT

Dominant 24-point win at home against Northern Iowa.

With B. Edmiston — 48 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 62 LONG · K. Anderson — 167 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 20.9 · -40 rush yds (4 car)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	W 10-0@ Akron	8	4	0.0	1	1
Wk 2	W 31-7vs Northern Iowa	6	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 4	L 20-37@ Colorado	6	6	1.0	—	0
Wk 6	L 17-31vs UNLV	4	3	1.0	—	1
Wk 7	W 35-28vs San José State	6	2	1.0	1	0
Wk 8	L 21-24@ Air Force	6	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 9	W 28-0vs Colorado State	6	4	1.0	—	0
Wk 10	L 7-24@ San Diego State	5	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 12	L 3-24@ Fresno State	9	7	0.0	—	0
Wk 13	L 7-13vs Nevada	13	9	1.0	—	1	Season-high 13 tackles
Wk 14	L 7-27@ Hawai'i	5	1	0.0	—	0
Total		74	44	5.0	2	3

How he plays

Play style

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

11 games

74Tackles

44Solo

5TFL

0Sacks

3Pass def.

2INT

74 tackles. 3 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 5 TFL.

Week 11 PD · 1 INT
Week 61 PD
Week 71 INT
Week 131 PD

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

Wyoming

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Linebacker · Wyoming

Returning around him

Transfer portal: +3 net (19 in / 16 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Wyoming · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #127 · 2026 recruiting class #114

DNA match

Player DNA

Sideline-to-Sideline

Ranges from hash to hash and makes his own tackles.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Sonny Styles’s 2025 season.

Sonny Styles

79%match

Ohio State · 2025

All-Big TenNFL Rd 1 · Pk 7

Jaishawn Barham

Michigan · 2024

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 28

78%

Penei Pavihi

Hawai'i · 2022

77%

Cody Lindenberg

Minnesota · 2022

NFL Rd 7

75%

Wade Woodaz

Clemson · 2025

NFL Rd 4

75%

Matches Sonny on

Sack rate

Tackle volume

Solo tackle rate

Differs from Sonny on

Height (lower)

Hurry rate (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to Keenan Pili's freshman season at BYU (2020).

Keenan Pili

80%match

BYU · 2020

Trevor Brohard

New Mexico State · 2021

80%

Kamren Robinson

Virginia · 2023

77%

Kendal Daniels

Oklahoma State · 2022

All-Big 12NFL Rd 4

76%

Cole Wisniewski

Texas Tech · 2025

NFL Rd 7

74%

Matches Keenan on

Tackle volume

Weight

PD rate

Player DNA

Players who play like Brayden Johnson

Sonny Styles

Ohio State · 2025

79%

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

202511 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

All-Conference

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Sideline-to-Sideline

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