Jaden Hardy is a defensive lineman at Western Kentucky who has not played in Western Kentucky's 8 games this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025.
Western Kentucky lists 27 defensive linemen this season.
Western Kentucky is 3-5. Next: at Middle Tennessee, Sat Nov 7.
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Transferred to Western Kentucky from Grambling. On tape: 6 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Toledo, Week 2, 2025.
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
20 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 2 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.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Western Kentucky | 20 | 9 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Career | 20 | 9 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 10 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-24vs Sam Houston | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 1 | W 55-6vs North Alabama | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 21-45@ Toledo | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 31-16vs Nevada | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 27-22@ Missouri State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-24@ Delaware | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-27@ Louisiana Tech | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-13@ LSU | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 34-37@ Jacksonville State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 27-16vs Southern Miss | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 9 | 2.0 | 0.5 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
10%2 TFLSack rate
2%0 sacksHurry rate
0%0 hurries20 tackles · 2 for loss · 0.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tyson Helton
Pass share
54.9%
492 pass / 404 run
Plays / game
68.9
13 games
Team sack rate
4.1%
491 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2025
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #238 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Conference USA
Based on 2025: #34 of 45 Conference USA DLs
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 15% of returning players who ranked #21 or lower at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 13–17%).
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
