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Luke Lachey

Player breakdown

Luke Lachey

Iowa · 2025 Draft Class

6-6251 lbs7th round, 255th overallAge at Draft: 24Age: ~25
MediumMissed 700+ Rec
Major awards: 0Heisman votes: 0NIL Contract Value: $511K
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Model confidence

Success Probability

41%

SeasonTeamConfGRecYdsTDYPRYPG
2021IowaBig Ten56106017.721.2
2022IowaBig Ten1026350013.535
2023IowaBig Ten29128014.264
2024IowaBig Ten82116007.620
Career2562744012.029.8

Model readout

Probability, context, and base score

XGBoost Prob

41%

ML model output

Context Prob

41%

Rule-based model

Suppression Signals

0

Depth chart context

SHAP Base

0.854

Average prediction

Top Positive Factors

120" broad jump — strong lower-body explosion+0.603
Reception rate trend+0.272
Efficiency consistency: 1.47 — highly consistent across seasons+0.241

Top Negative Factors

1.39 ypg per lb — average size-adjusted production-0.372
Class YPR rank: top 50% — average per-target efficiency-0.326
21.2 ypg as a freshman — limited first-year impact-0.289

SHAP Feature Impact (Top 20)