#15

Landyn Watson

Senior linebacker for Kansas. 2025: 21 tackles, 1 tackle for loss.

LB · Kansas · Sr. · #15

6′1″ · 245 lb · Hutto, TX · Hutto HS

CFB Index 11 · #567 of 583 LBsHigh confidenceTransferred Kentucky → Kansas for 2026

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The numbers

tackles · 2025

Best game: 5 tackles, at Vanderbilt

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Senior linebacker for Kansas. 2025: 21 tackles, 1 tackle for loss.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to TCU in 2021.
Transferred from Kentucky to Kansas in 2026.

The full story, with sources

How he plays

Is steady in every phase without a signature trait.

QB hurries: 55th percentile.

The full scouting read

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Landyn Watson

LB · Kansas · Sr · #15

Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Across three seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Charles Huff and Mark Stoops. The receipt: 5 tackles against Vanderbilt — Week 13, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Kentucky	21	8	1.0	--	--	--
2024	Marshall	66	20	4.0	--	1	--
2023	Marshall	4	3	0.0	--	--	--
Career		91	31	5.0	--	1	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 24-16vs Toledo	2	1	0.0	—
Wk 3	W 48-23vs Eastern Michigan	1	0	0.5	—
Wk 5	L 13-35@ South Carolina	3	1	0.0	—
Wk 8	L 13-16vs Texas	2	2	0.0	—
Wk 9	L 34-56vs Tennessee	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 10	W 10-3@ Auburn	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 11	W 38-7vs Florida	3	1	0.0	—
Wk 12	W 42-10vs Tennessee Tech	2	1	0.5	—
Wk 13	L 17-45@ Vanderbilt	5	2	0.0	—	Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 14	L 0-41@ Louisville	1	0	0.0	—
Total		21	8	1.0	—

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2023Marshall6-7HC: Charles Huff · Balanced

2024Marshall10-3HC: Charles Huff · Run-leaning

2025Kentucky5-7HC: Mark Stoops · Run-leaning

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

11Below cohort / limited sample #567 of 583?

High confidenceFading6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Tackles#1929 / 2975 · 34th pct

Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct

1.0

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

Solo tackles#2282 / 2975 · 21st 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.

Defensive profile

Defender profile · Production by role

Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet

21 tkl · 1 TFL

Tackle volume

21tackles this season

TFL rate

5%1 TFL

Sack rate

0%0 sacks

PD rate

0%0 pass breakups

21 tackles · 1 for loss.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	1.8	0.2	0.0	0.0
Road4g	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-73g	2.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+7g	2.1	0.1	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Lance Leipold

Pass share

41.2%

89 pass / 127 run

Plays / game

72.0

3 games

Team sack rate

5.1%

99 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

11 · #567 of 583 LBs

Three-star recruit. Now #567 at the position.

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

10 games

21Tackles

8Solo

1TFL

0Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

21 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 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.

DNA match

Player DNA

Balanced Linebacker

Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to John Lewis’s 2024 season.

John Lewis

81%match

Mississippi State · 2024

Wesley Steiner

Auburn · 2021

76%

Shane Perry

East Carolina · 2024

75%

Steven Scheidt

Eastern Michigan · 2022

74%

Dylan Hazen

Wake Forest · 2022

74%

Matches John on

TFL rate

Weight

Class year

Differs from John on

Height (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Steven Scheidt's junior season at Eastern Michigan (2022).

Steven Scheidt

87%match

Eastern Michigan · 2022

D.J. Woodbury

Temple · 2023

All-AAC

84%

Zach Mowchan

Eastern Michigan · 2024

83%

Ethan Hassler

Arkansas State · 2023

All-Sun Belt

82%

Jaylon Scott

NC State · 2022

82%

Matches Steven on

TFL rate

Tackle volume

Weight

Differs from Steven on

Hurry rate (higher)

Player DNA

Players who play like Landyn Watson

Jordan Brown

North Texas · 2024

82%

Stephen Dix Jr.

Arkansas · 2024

78%

Shane Bruce

Coastal Carolina · 2024

76%

Background

2025 (at Kentucky): Transferred to Kentucky after two seasons at Marshall and two at TCU… Has played in 25 career games (22 at Marshall and three at TCU) with 11 starting assignments (at Marshall)... Has totaled 69 career tackles, 4.0 tackles for loss, three quarterback hurries, an interception…

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The linebacker corps · Kansas

#4Trey LathanLB · Sr.86 tackles · 2025
#25Jibreel Al-AminLB · Sr.51 tackles · 2025
#13Quincy DavisLB · Jr.43 tackles · 2025
#15Landyn WatsonLB · Sr.21 tackles · 2025
#7Daveon CrouchLB · Sr.12 tackles · 2025

8 more on the roster · Kansas team page

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

Landyn Watson

2021

20234 games

202510 games

2026

Career stats

Game log

2025 snapshot

Defensive profile

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

How he plays

DNA match

Balanced Linebacker

Players who play like Landyn Watson

Background

The linebacker corps · Kansas