Senior safety for Utah State. 2025: 1 interception, 5 pass breakups, 56 tackles.
5′11″ · 195 lb · Smithfield, UT
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
How he plays
Moves between deep coverage and the slot.
Passes defended: 91st percentile.
The full scouting readThe numbers
interception · 2025
5 PBU · 56 tackles · 3 TFL
Best game: 1 INT, 7 tackles, vs Washington State
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety for Utah State. 2025: 1 interception, 5 pass breakups, 56 tackles.
Ike Larsen
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Ike Larsen has played for three head coaches in four seasons at Utah State. He has three of these now, the latest All-Mountain West in 2025. The receipt on tape: 11 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Boise State, Week 14, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was winning awards before he was old enough to be a story.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST
All-Mountain West mention (2025)
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Blake Anderson, Nate Dreiling, and Bronco Mendenhall. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (91st percentile). Strength: solo tackles (85th percentile). Concern: sacks (24th percentile).
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 · Per-game
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 7.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 7.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 7.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 7.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bronco Mendenhall
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #81 at the position.
2026 outlook
In the mix for All-Pac-12
Based on 2025: #3 of 17 Mountain West Ss — his program moves to the Pac-12 for 2026
49% estimated, 95% confidence interval 43–54%. 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. The base rate was measured on players who stayed in the same conference; this estimate is not adjusted for the move to the Pac-12.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Utah State | 56 | 33 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 5 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Utah State | 80 | 55 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 9 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Utah State | 102 | 58 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 6 | 4 | -- |
| 2022 | Utah State | 34 | 20 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 2 | 4 | -- |
| Career | 272 | 166 | 12.0 | 2.0 | 22 | 10 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 7 | L 26-44@ Hawai'i | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 30-25vs San José State | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-33@ New Mexico | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 51-14vs Nevada | 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 26-29@ UNLV | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-17@ Fresno State | 8 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-25vs Boise State | 11 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Bowl | L 21-34vs Washington State | 7 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 56 | 33 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
56 tackles. 5 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 3 TFL.
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
Utah State
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · Utah State
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Utah State · Last season: 6-7 · Talent rank #123 · 2026 recruiting class #97
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jahdae Barron’s 2023 season.
Matches Jahdae on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jahdae Barron's senior season at Texas (2023).
Matches Jahdae on
Player DNA
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